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Yes. We’ve written too many checks that we can’t possibly hope to cash.

If the fed gets in the way of the fiscal policy makers and their spending, they will obliterate it - it only exists because of a law passed by congress anyway.

Here’s a taste: https://www.rickscott.senate.gov/2023/3/sens-rick-scott-and-...

Edit:

That SAID, anything can happen. These breakthroughs with AI could very likely change all of that.



>If the fed gets in the way of the fiscal policy makers and their spending, they will obliterate it

"The enemy of my enemy is my ally"

-Rand Paul, probably.


This will be a bipartisan movement, that oversight plan is led by Elizabeth Warren and Rick Scott.

EDIT: Would be fun to see Rand Paul crusading for the Fed in defense of spending cuts.




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