It’s clear the government is never going to shrink itself. I mostly liked Trump’s state of the union, but then there was the part where he promised to never touch Social Security and Medicare. There’s a real irony in the way the Federal Government breaks down the budget. There’s Discretionary (27%), which is everything a government should do, and there’s Mandatory (60%) which is entitlement programs that give money to old people. Look look, it’s right there in the name, “Mandatory” that means we can never cut it. Three fifths of the budget is Mandatory. We shouldn’t even talk about cutting that, we can’t, it’s Mandatory. In Soviet Russia, you didn’t criticise Stalin by saying you wanted less Stalin. That’s bad and gets you disappeared. But perhaps you could say something like, man Stalin is soooo great I wish we had 50 Stalins, nay, 500 Stalins! A Stalin for every man women and child. So yea, I support UBI now. Free money for you! Free money for your neighbors! Free money for corporations! Free money for illegal immigrants! Free money for the whole damn planet! Where does this free money come from? Print it! Mint the coin! FREE MONEY!!!! UNIVERSAL!!!!!! This is the only way to get rid of Social Security. Sorry sorry, did I say cut entitlement programs? Obviously that can’t happen, they are “Mandatory.” Keep the entitlement programs, just have them pay out fake worthless money. The only way out is through. https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2026/03/12/ch…