During this so-called season of giving, two Republican Billionaires continue their effort to take away. Two dudes with billions of dollars each, who, according to current law, do not pay anything in taxes in relationship to their own private wealth, two Brah’s who seem to think that their shit don’t stank, because they have too much money and too much money never smells!
On Nov. 27, Elon Musk — who, along with Vivek Ramaswamy, has been tasked by President-Elect Trump with running a new Department of Government Efficiency — posted on his platform X that he wants to “Delete CFPB,” referring to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The agency, Musk said, was part of a problem of “too many duplicative regulatory agencies” in Washington. But there are no other agencies in the federal government returning money to Americans’ bank accounts in the way the CFPB does. (The Hill)
So many people said they voted for Trump because somehow that billionaire understood the pain and anguish of the p[rice of eggs, a gallon of gas, and staples sold in a supermarket. Yeah, as if Trump and his cadre of 1% Oligarchs could give any shit about the price of anything, except the price of what it might cost them to pay their peasants a living wage!
I am not sure if Vivek is part of a TRHUPLE with Donald and Elon, and I am still not certain if Elon is a real President, but these three self-serving, selfish, sad sacks seem like a trio of Grinches.
Since its founding, the agency has returned more than $19 billion in cash to people who have been scammed by financial institutions, including predatory payday lenders and even some of the largest banks in the country. It has done so under Republican and Democratic presidents, including major actions against Wells Fargo and Equifax during President Trump’s first term in office, which, combined, returned $425 million to consumers. (Those actions both began under the Obama administration, but Trump’s CFPB directors oversaw the execution of those fines.) (The Hill)
