The Great American Grift: Billionaires Get Billions While You Get Screwed
Welcome to the great American magic trick: while the government slashes funds for everyday people, corporations bask in an endless downpour of cash. Trump and Musk, the self-proclaimed cost-cutting crusaders, love to rant about wasteful spending—but their scalpels mysteriously never touch the real fat in the budget.
Let’s talk about where the money actually goes:
$3 Billion in Subsidies to Big Oil
Oil companies—those paragons of rugged capitalism—somehow need billions in government handouts, despite raking in record profits. ExxonMobil, Chevron, and their fossil-fueled cronies pocket subsidies like they’re welfare queens in private jets, all while raising gas prices and funding climate change denial.
You struggling to pay at the pump? Too bad. They need another billion-dollar cushion.
The $2 Trillion Fighter Jet That Doesn’t Work
Ah, the F-35, America’s golden child of military waste. Two trillion dollars pumped into a jet that’s been in development hell for decades. A flying piece of Swiss cheese—riddled with technical failures, unable to function in combat, but still gushing taxpayer money like a Pentagon slot machine.
Meanwhile, actual veterans? Good luck getting your VA appointment on time.
Billion-Dollar Tax Breaks for Poverty Wages
Amazon, Walmart, and their corporate brethren receive tax breaks so generous, Scrooge McDuck would blush. In return, they underpay workers so badly that many rely on food stamps and Medicaid—programs those same corporations lobby to gut.
That’s the grift: make billions, dodge taxes, force workers onto government aid, then cry about “entitlement spending.”
But Sure, Let’s Cut Social Security Offices and VA Nurses
Instead of fixing the grotesque funneling of money to billionaire-run corporations, the government slashes essential services:
- VA nurses? Fired.
- Social Security offices? Understaffed and overburdened.
- Food inspectors? Laid off, but enjoy your salmonella.
America First, baby!
The Bottom Line: It’s All a Scam
The “fiscal responsibility” talk is a smokescreen. The money isn’t disappearing—it’s just being redirected upwards, funneled into the gilded pockets of corporate overlords while the rest of the country scrapes by.
So next time someone tells you “we can’t afford” healthcare, education, or decent wages, ask them why we can afford to bankroll billionaires. Spoiler alert: they won’t have an answer.
