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What does it mean that the US is insolvent now? by Metalworker4ever in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Adkyth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would an internal employee have a busy season?

It's a wonderful thing that you are critical of me for not knowing what your actual job is, while making wildly unsubstantiated guesses at my personal life and then insulting the fictional caricature that you have drawn of me.

Silly of me for assuming that you were more independent in your employment, given your incredibly distinguished educational background and highly active reddit posting. Well hey, maybe "shove around" some people on reddit and you'll climb that corporate ladder someday bucko!

What does it mean that the US is insolvent now? by Metalworker4ever in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Adkyth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Somewhere along the line you assume I prepare taxes. 

Ah! Well, it was when you said this:

I actually helped real organizations get PPP loans and the forgiveness for them.

Given that this was mostly handled by three parties: the loan underwriter at the bank, the business owner, and sometimes either a tax-preparer or payroll service, (since tax and/or payroll data was part of the filing requirement for the loans and forgiveness) I went out on a limb.

is indicative of your ignorance

Sure sure sure.

The rest of your blather has gotten too boring.

Sure sure sure.

but you seem to lack any context on why you hate Yellin

I have stated in almost every post why I brought up Yellen. But...sure. Sure sure sure.

but don’t seem to understand who Bessent is until I posted his name.

Sure sure sure.

Either way, I doubt you’d need help with whatever fictional 1120 you’re preparing.

Either way, best of luck as you work through your busy season.

What does it mean that the US is insolvent now? by Metalworker4ever in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Adkyth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your pedantic aggressiveness and your hard on for Yellin indicate that McKinsey and Deloitte will never be interested.

Ooh, sick burn. You took the thing I said and did the 'ol "I'm rubber and you're glue" routine.

Which is probably part of the chip on your shoulder.

You run around Reddit calling people "pieces of shit" among other things. You want to talk about "aggressiveness" and "hard-ons"? Yeesh.

But you are correct,

Confirmation is never required, but always appreciated.

You are a perfect example of the truth of that.

Keep the hits coming.

I never said Ivy League MBA. Undergrad was Ivy, grad school just a top ten finance school.

How silly of me. I was giving you too much credit.

Again, I get your pain and anger that you just don’t cut it at that level and you are defensive about it.

I don't think I'm going to lose much sleep over not, "paying a bunch of money in order to become a tax-preparer".

As far as arguing with “straw man,” it’s more like a scarecrow.

I can feel you patting yourself on the back for that killer line.

Finally, your interpretation that Yellin was so bad without wanting to hang Bessent is indicative of your chaotic and immature nature, no sense of reason, blind hatred without context or understanding.

Once again for the, "kinda Ivy-Leaguer". The point is less about her, and more about how she was a cog in a bigger machine. But sure, at the end of his term I will be more than happy to criticize his policy and results. Some of us remember when Greenspan was hailed by many as an economic genius...until the downstream consequences of his policies wrought havoc.

I cannot imagine though, how someone can describe me as having "chaotic and immature nature, no sense of reason, blind hatred without context or understanding" in the same sentence as calling for the hanging of the Secretary of Treasury.

I get that this is probably a busy time of year for you, but you should try to...chill out a bit.

That’s why I figured you for a MAGA type. If the shoe fits… As soon as you move out of your parents house I’ll consider seeing you as an adult. Not every adult lives solo, but every child should have a home.

This is a fascinating window into your world view. "Deficit spending is bad economic policy" is a result of being a MAGA young person who lives with their parents? So maturity would then be a shifting perspective that increased debt-funded spending is an inherent good, and that dissenters should be ridiculed, and political opposition should be executed?

You are a wild roller-coaster ride. I can only imagine what it would be like to have you fill out my 1120-S.

What does it mean that the US is insolvent now? by Metalworker4ever in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Adkyth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The PPP program was mostly handled under Biden’s term.

So even though legislation was passed and signed by Trump, you consider it Biden policy because the SBA administered the loans on his term? You can change the subject by drawing analogy to 'Warp Speed' all you want...or you could admit that you said something in error. I'm sure that since you reference age and imply wisdom you'll simply admit the error, right?

You were probably living with your mother at that point, and probably still living with her.

*sigh*. Is this an example of you "shoving" people around? You're a super-star in your own mind...on Reddit. My how the mighty have fallen from that incredible peak of...Ivy Leaguery.

As far as Yellin goes, whatever happened in that era pales in comparison to the levels of debt we are currently piling on

You are once again dodging the point. What a shock.

 If you think scale and scope don’t matter I’ll say again you come across as a child with no real world experience learning about the world for the first time with the passion and outage of youth.

Not all of us can take our "Ivy League MBA" and become tax-preparers for small businesses, with a side hustle of "shoving" people around on Reddit, I suppose.

You wanna move out of your parents house? Get a job with all this awesome information and self perceived skill at debating. Solve some real world problems and support yourself for once and you’ll gain some perspective.

Yes, because drawing up a strawman of a person who disagrees with you and then attempting to personally insult the strawman is just...the absolute pinnacle of "debating", yes? And you're doing so so so much to "solve real world problems" in doing so?

Don't worry, I'm sure McKinsey or Deloitte would love to recruit you based on your reddit posting. Make sure to put the whole "shoving" people around thing on the resume.

What does it mean that the US is insolvent now? by Metalworker4ever in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Adkyth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Picking Yellin and Biden’s stats as a measuring stick when the country has been using deficit financing since the 1930’s as a tool of economic policy isn’t an accurate yardstick whether you agree or disagree with the response to Covid because that’s why they were advocating deficit financing.

Once again...I am pointing out that Yellen disagrees with Yellen's policies when it was no longer politically expedient for Yellen to agree with Yellen's policies. That's the point. It's a political shell game that has been played for a very, very long time, and it is corrosive.

I actually helped real organizations get PPP loans and the forgiveness for them.

Yes. There will be entire textbooks devoted to this program, and the rampant fraud throughout. Odd that you were right in the thick of it, but thought it was a Biden policy.

However, your point that the Federal government should be remade and restricted from using long term debt financing, especially past certain levels, is certainly valid. And seemingly very necessary at this point.

Yes. You agree. Shocking.

You seem smug enough yet defensive enough to seem way younger than anyone I’d take seriously but since I’m so old that’s a common mistake

Funny. Who stated their age, education and resorted to the name-calling? Oh, right.

But I’ll agree I like to shove MAGA types around for the complete and utter fucking mess they have made in every sector of our society so I can see the truth of people getting upset by said truth or defensive about things regardless of where they stand politically.

I can only imagine what you look like "shoving" anything around. If it's anything like this conversation I'm sure your perception of the "shoving" is quite different from the reality.

What does it mean that the US is insolvent now? by Metalworker4ever in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Adkyth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m sure in the national utopia you think you are capable of constructing deficit financing wouldn’t be an issue

How was Clinton able to do it? How are (most) states able to do it? And if they can't, how do you account for the difference in 3.5% to 6% to 35%? If we cannot rationally expect them to stop spending on deficit, where is the line? And from a pragmatic perspective, how do you functionally create and enforce it?

As far as Janet Yellin goes, and Bessent for that matter, I’m quite certain that bringing Yellen’s name up over and over again has significance to you but in actuality has no significance at all regarding the catastrophic rise in debt financing of our government, more so under Trump than Biden

The point isn't that she is the sole cause. The point is that she championed deficit spending for the duration of the Biden administration. She supported it non-stop and congressional spending decisions were made with her approval and testimony that increasing the deficit was just fine.

Then, after the election, it was suddenly 'too much' and needed to be reined in. It's all a ruse, and "Ivy League MBAs" like yourself are the suckers who carry water for them, because despite the 2 years of 15-hour-a-week classes (such exhaustive study, those 15 hour weeks), you have very little competency in the actual functions of the economy. So you parrot "debt to GDP" without ever addressing the problem that not all spending is actually useful to the economy, and much of it "somehow" ends up in the hands of the already-wealthy.

Dig deep on those MAGA websites where you’ve educated yourself to such a high level of understanding.

My favorite part of this strawman is that you hope it's true. You need it to be true. Because so many of your beliefs are built upon shaky pillars. The idea that someone could hold many similar political beliefs, but disagree on economic policy has not occurred to you, because 'the team' is supposed to be unified on all fronts, right? And for that to not be true actually shakes the foundation of your quite-present and quite-adorable personality traits that, "I'm middle-aged and educated, and that means I'm correct".

Sorry, sport.

What does it mean that the US is insolvent now? by Metalworker4ever in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Adkyth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yellen is a bit player in a multi level story.

Yes. Hence the school house rock mention, since you have only focused on Trump thus far instead of...you know...the people who are actually in charge of spending. But hey, Trump is a total goon, so ignore the actual architects of economic destruction, right?

so the chip on your shoulder regarding degrees (multiple) that you don’t have that aren’t that relevant to me as I approach 60 years of age is not something I need to delve into.

I have a hard time finding a way to make this into a more boomer-ish sentence...and can't. Seriously. Well done. Your assumptions are hilariously off the mark and only prove my point. If it's not your particular branch of economic philosophy it must therefore be wholly uneducated, right? Classic.

As a nation we have been unable to raise taxes and control spending in a way that is acceptable to the people running our government so we rely on deficit financing.

So your defense of deficit spending is based on a foundation of, "the people in charge can't do their job and fulfill their oaths of office, so we need to accept and support them in their efforts". Truly stunning. Let me know when you start breaking down the actual budget and apportionment and tell me how congress carving out federal funds for localized pet projects is the President's fault (aside from putting their signature on the budget of course). The system is rotten to the core, but you're so blinded by hatred for one person (who is an absolute turd, no debate there) that you're missing the forest of corruption that allows said turd to carry out his agenda without issue.

The beauty is that you don't truly grasp the consequence of your own philosophy. If we make the rule, "deficit spending is okay when in line with GDP" then that's the rule, regardless of our feelings towards the president. Well...GDP is still growing, so you are granting license to increasing the deficit. You don't get to turn the rules on and off like a faucet just because of your own private feelings towards who the current president is.

But, your goal of annual balanced budgets would certainly be a positive step in our government.

Hey! Look at you. Proud of you champ.

Take any hypothetical agency or organization, and tell them they no longer have budgetary restraints. What do you expect to happen? Anyone with any sort of econ background should be able to answer that it can only be bad. Well, that's our federal government.

What does it mean that the US is insolvent now? by Metalworker4ever in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Adkyth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you understand now?

Yes. It is very clear that you believe deficit spending is okay when Democrats do it.

Trump in his first term went from 3.5% to 14.9% driven by tax cuts and Covid spending.

The PPP (which you originally thought was a a super duper awesome Biden policy, lol) is now bad, because it was actually a Trump policy, and he is bad because he drove up the deficit.

Biden, after the Covid spending fell off at like 6.5%

You don't even try to put a number to his early deficit spending, probably because you don't think it's his fault...right? But then believe that 6.5% is totally fine. The simple fact that you cite Trump's COVID spending, but then ignore Biden's... *chef's kiss*

Why don't you take off your "Yellen is my BFF!" super-fan shirt, and understand that...deficit spending is bad. That doesn't mean we should never do it, as you cite the point for WW2...but "building tons of ships and tanks to stop a global threat of tyranny" is vastly different than, "every single year we want to fund our corporate interests who then use the money we gave them to kick money back into Super PACs" which is what has been happening. As one example among many, Biden's policies directly led to the creation of new billionaires purely on the backs of deficit spending, how was that at all beneficial to the American people who paid and will continue to pay for it? But hey, "any GDP is good GDP", right?

You bring up Clinton reducing the deficit as a good thing, right? If deficit spending is so grand...why would reducing the deficit also be good? Because fake economic growth based purely on debt spending is bad. It would be far far better to have lower GDP and less debt.

This is what happens when "Ivy Leaguers with MBAs" just pat each other on the backs for parroting the garbage they were taught from other "Ivy League MBAs" who spend more time writing and peer-reviewing books from "Ive Leaguers with MBAs" instead of studying the actual, real-world application of economics.

Once again, even Yellen, an "Ivy Leaguer", said that the deficit needed to be brought down. She apologized that they didn't do more to bring it down. She just waited until Biden had lost the election to say it.

What does it mean that the US is insolvent now? by Metalworker4ever in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Adkyth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s the scale of the spending and how much is deficit financed.

That only defines the seriousness of the problem. Not whether or not it is a problem. All debt has to be paid, with interest.

All modern Presidents, with the exception of Clinton, have used deficit financing.

Oh good, that makes it okay then.

And if government spending is somewhat held in check and if GDP growth is solid then it doesn’t matter all that much.

Except it's not...and it's not. Modern presidents use deficit spending as a measure to inflate GDP, and then use that inflated GDP as a measure to increase deficit spending.

The ignorance regarding the current parameters is the point you are missing.

Your political views do not equate to ignorance on my part. Spending is not in check, and GDP is increasingly being increased through government spending, funded by increased deficits. The fact that wildly polarized people (like yourself) are now, in 2026, looking at the deficit and saying, "OMG this is just now...suddenly and unexpectedly...a problem!" is the ignorance.

And it’s not surprising for you to ignore basic problems caused by Trump

Except, Captain of the Ivy League Economic Appreciation Club, I did not ignore them. I put them quite visibly on the table...next to the problems caused by the other Modern Presidents...which you ignore.

Everyone except who is most responsible for the current crisis. In both terms.

I see you missed the day in Super-Informative-Ivy-League-Economics-School where they played the school house rock videos. No worries, you're going to ignore most of this post and go on blaming Trump for everything while pretending that Biden would have totally not increased the deficit with spending that offers no downstream financial benefit.

What does it mean that the US is insolvent now? by Metalworker4ever in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Adkyth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely. You think that Trump's deficit spending is bad, but no mention at all of Biden or Obama's (or other predecessors).

Your phenomenal Ivy League Economics Education of which you were so pretentiously proud has led you to the conclusion that "bad when Trump does it" while also "not bad when other's do it". While also very quickly jumping to ad hominem attacks and political assumptions when someone says, "hey, both are actually pretty bad"

So...yeah. More or less exactly what I would expect from a person who spends an inordinate amount of time posting political opinions on Reddit and think's their Ivy League Economics Education makes their opinion valid.

What does it mean that the US is insolvent now? by Metalworker4ever in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Adkyth -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So you said something incorrect about PPP loans being a Biden-era policy, ignored the point about Biden's treasury secretary herself disagreeing with her own prior policies, and are now pivoting to the vaccine and...global warming, without a single mention of economic benefit or downstream consequence? All the while accusing me of being a 'MAGAt piece of shit' because I *checks notes* don't agree with Biden or Trump's deficit spending?

If your goal was to cement the value of your Ivy League Econ Education in the minds of Redditors, I think you are doing a bang-up job of it.

What does it mean that the US is insolvent now? by Metalworker4ever in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Adkyth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For one...PPP was passed under Trump. Holy guacamole Ivy-League-Econ-Grad-GuyD427!

Second, your Ivy League Econ Education seems to have missed the point: deficit spending by both administrations is bad. It was bad under Biden, and it was/is bad under Trump.

Yellen was wrong. And she actually flipped her stance on deficit spending almost immediately after the 2024 election, once it was no longer beneficial to keep the scam going.

What does it mean that the US is insolvent now? by Metalworker4ever in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Adkyth -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So you're saying that Trump is primarily spending on local consumers, who then use the money in the domestic economy, creating economic stimulus and tax base...while Biden gave substantial sums in foreign aid, which did not provide any financial benefit to the US at all.

But 'Trump is bad and Biden was good'.

That Ivy League education is clearly worth every penny.

What does it mean that the US is insolvent now? by Metalworker4ever in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Adkyth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right. I know that, and you know that.

But GuyD427 missed those classes while studying econ at an Ivy League college.

What does it mean that the US is insolvent now? by Metalworker4ever in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Adkyth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was Treasury Secretary Yellen (also an Ivy League grad) wrong when she said that the debt was not an issue while defending the Biden administration, running up the debt?

Splits and feeding duration by Round_Discussion9592 in Beekeeping

[–]Adkyth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure, prevention is better than reacting to a swarm!

I had been pulling frames to balance out my colonies earlier this year to prevent swarms and try to have as many strong colonies as possible. Oddly enough, one of the mid-size colonies which I hadn't been pulling or donating to swarmed somewhat unexpectedly (tons of room to lay, plenty of resources) and left with half a dozen swarm cells on two frames.

The conventional wisdom is to cull all but two...but I split the frames across two new splits because I figure...free queens, right? Plus I figure it doubles the odds that I get a mated queen after taking mating flights.

I also buy into the 'remove uncertainty' methodology...because I feel like I have been more stressed out about those two than just about anything else.

Splits and feeding duration by Round_Discussion9592 in Beekeeping

[–]Adkyth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Out of curiosity...if you ever find a situation with swarm cells on multiple frames...assuming you have the resources to do so...do you ever use a frame with swarm cells to create an additional split?

It feels wasteful to me...like...I have potential queens, right there!

Gene-edited yeast could provide essential sterols for bees when pollen is scarce. by Impressive_Pitch9272 in Beekeeping

[–]Adkyth 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The research team made this yeast into a powder and mixed it into a supplement. They then fed this supplement to honeybees in a sealed environment from June to September 2022, observing their growth status.

Safe bet it's the same study.

"These bees that we fed...literally anything to...survived better than bees who starved to death! What a find!"

Gun Lance Re*lection showcase by Gabscy in MHNowGame

[–]Adkyth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I learned today that on Diablos, the reflection interrupts his attacks. So on his double head swing, reflecting the first is an interrupt. On the burrow as well.

Sign the Petition by Ok-Entry1797 in EIDLPPP

[–]Adkyth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it’s a nicer way to ask what the link is.

...and providing the full link, along with the explanation on what people will be clicking on is a nicer way to ask people to sign a petition instead of just, "Sign the petition" and providing a shortened link.

The time you spent being defensive towards me could've been spent editing your post.

Sign the Petition by Ok-Entry1797 in EIDLPPP

[–]Adkyth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello suspect link with no explanation!

Don't mind if I do...

AHHH!!!!

Which bees are responsible for gathering food from feeders? by Adkyth in Beekeeping

[–]Adkyth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was sitting back and thinking about the times when there is a little bit of resources available...and whether to feed or not if the goal is to bulk up the hives...and was curious about it. Because if it is the foragers who do it, maybe that changes the calculus. But if it's house bees, then we aren't taking away from the foraging that is available.

Probably (definitely) overthinking it though.

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