Drumpf's 'Psychophant' Treasury Secretary is a Shameless Bullshit Artist

Drumpf's cartoon villain character Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Americans shouldn't bother to plan for retirement savings because Elon Musk and his AI products are going to guarantee an "abundance" of wealth that will magically trickle down equitably to all Americans providing all with comfortable living in our golden years:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link:  Bessent says Americans won't need retirement savings: 'Elon's so far ahead of the curve' - Raw Story 

 

"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday night that he agrees with Elon Musk's prediction that artificial intelligence will produce so much abundance that Americans won't need to save for retirement.

The exchange, flagged online by journalist Aaron Rupar, came when Hannity asked Bessent whether he believed Musk's claim that AI-driven wealth would make traditional retirement savings unnecessary.

"I do, but I think I would change the timeline," Bessent said. "I've seen Elon speak for a long time and he is — look, his record speaks for itself in terms, as an inventor, as a venture capitalist, as a great American. He's normally early. He's just so far ahead of the curve. He sees things that no one else sees. But I do think we are building this incredible economy that we can't even imagine.""

  

These Trump administration guys are all such bullshit con artists.  And Scott Bessent has to be one of the slicker, smarmier ones of the execrable bunch.

I mean seriously - who but the MAGA dolts believe that the world's wealthy elites are going to use AI to create a near-future economic utopia where Americans will no longer have to worry about planning and saving money for their retirements?

This idea that Elon and his wealthy techbro friends are going to create this magical AI economic utopia for us all if only we will trust them and give them free, unregulated reign to use their AI products any way they wish across our society is as laughable and believable as MuskRat's claim there will be colonies of humans on Mars in the next 20 years.

And then people wonder why our nation is drowning in debt, is throwing millions of Americans off of healthcare, taking food away from poor kids, trying to eliminate Medicaid and Medicare, and refusing to do anything about strengthening the Social Security Trust Fund which will start running into the red and be forced to cut SS benefits within the next 5-6 years.

This is the end result of putting clowns, charlatans, and grifters like Scott Bessent into high-level positions with power and influence over the implementation of US economic policy in government.

You get a three-ring circus that protects and expands the already rapidly expanding wealth of the elites while gaslighting and preying on the non-elites.

And that is how we arrived at the point where the current US Secretary of the Treasury is pimping futuristic AI pablum to the dumb and gullible while the person who employs him rakes in billions from the safe and comfy interior confines of the American people's White House.

 

 

 

---TFG