The National Debt

After “training” Grok, I got the following estimate for fraud and improper payments for entitlements last year:

So, revised: fraud across all entitlements might still be $70-100 billion, but total improper payments could be $150-200 billion. Does that square better with what you’re seeing? I’ll own the fuzziness—numbers this big get slippery fast.

Let’s assume $250 billion a year. This money goes into government’s pockets, fraud on a personal level and subsidizing the collapse of the Republic with the Cloward-Piven strategy. This figure does not include funding the invasion of the country under the illegal Biden administration by siphoning money from other sources such as FEMA.

While this is a substantial figure, its impact on the national deficit of $36.5 trillion is minor. The DOGE savings as of today is $135.5 billion and the total savings realistically from DOGE is $1 trillion if Grok is correct:

Even Musk admits $1 trillion’s more realistic.

Solutions:

1. Trump has proposed cutting the military budget by 50%: approximately $450 billion.
2. Elimination of the Department of Education: If you kill the ED and all its programs cold turkey—no funding, no transfers—savings hit that $82-83 billion annually (from Grok).
3. Consolidating agencies and killing redundancies might save $50-100 billion a year if modest (GAO-style fixes), or $100-200 billion if DOGE’s aggressive vision pans out (from Grok).
4. Tariffs: The 2025 Canada/Mexico/China plan might raise $130-150 billion in 2025, scaling to $200-265 billion if fully phased in, per CRFB and Goldman. The universal 20% plus 60% China dream could hit $300-380 billion annually. Over 10 years, it’s $1.3-3.8 trillion, depending on scope and fallout. That’s real money—enough for Trump’s $395 billion taxpayer checks idea—but not the $6.9 trillion 2024 budget (from Grok).
5. Drug testing as a requirement for government entitlements: if 2% of all 150 million entitlement recipients (a rough count, adjusting overlaps) lose benefits, and costs average $10,000 per person, that’s $30 billion saved. Testing at $30-$90 each is $4.5-13.5 billion. Net savings: $16.5-25.5 billion yearly, best case (from Grok).

The reason that we have the national deficit is two fold:

1. Congress is corrupt. They have been paid off by drug cartels, EU/Israeli interests and lobbyists. They cannot even pass a balanced budget amendment as they have no accountability to the people.
2. The federal government has intentionally raped the American working class. Part of this is to implement the destruction of the Republic, part is to enrich themselves and part is due to their incompetence.

If government is put back into the box as our founding fathers intended, we can tackle the debt but it will be painful. People have to decide the price of freedom: is it too high a price to offset our apathy which led to our downfall? President Trump and his team are our best hope of eliminating the evil which usurped our Republic. The only questions are whether we will fight for our Liberty to be restored and most importantly, whether we turn back to the Lord for His Divine Providence.

David DeGerolamo