What a shite webpage. No matter how many times I close the tiny stupid video window, it will spring up like bloody herpes with every touch. Yahoo, you're as bad as herpes. Eat shit.
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I like how people think this or the sabotaging of social secuity will lead to privatisation.
Yeah they could do that - but they are not. There aren't any plans, secretive or otherwise. they are just wrecking things and leaving nothing behind.
The Replublican party is opposed to social security - private or public. They want you to work until you die. They have literally said this repeatedly for 100 years, what is there not to get ?
Presumably being used for illegal bribes
Can't use made-up numbers for bribes.
That’s weird. I thought he was making government more efficient to save taxpayers’ money.
You gotta put the /s, especially lately that more conservatives have made the leap to Lemmy.
Put the /s there or dont. They're too stupid to function anyways.
Put the /s ~~there or dont.~~
FTFY
There are no “savings”. That was a cover story. This is about gaining access to data and firing anyone who might enforce rules.
100% will cost more than it "saves" and result in a much less functional society.
Elon Musk, the de facto head of DOGE, lowered expectations of the group’s savings from $1 trillion to $150 billion by the end of the fiscal year.
So, a failure even on their own terms.
The original goal was 2 trillion. It's less than 1% of the original goal now.
Edit: Less than 10% which is still pathetic, but this is why I shouldn't do math in my head.
150 billion is 7.5% of 2 trillion
Math doesn't check out, but point stands.
He's going to have to move the goalposts to $10 to meet the expectations
And even then the "savings" will be shortterm. Wouldn't surprise me at all if you could draw a straight line to a trillion dollars lost over the next 10+ years caused directly by DOGE.
At the rate we're going, I fear that may be an understatement.
Oh I just mean directly costing us tax dollars that could've been used wisely but instead will be wasted trying to fix things doge fucked up royally. The loss this administration has already caused to the economy as a whole is incalculable. Even if the tariffs get reversed and we recover modestly that would still be many billions stolen from the working class' retirement and other investment accounts.
Gee I wonder where that money went… This just in: Narcissistic racist oligarch with a breeding fetish likely stole the money for his “legion” fund. Funny how both him and Epstein were obsessed with populating the earth with their progeny. Too bad only one of them is dead.
Read the article..
IMO I doubt there's actually theft of the savings... there's some real chaos. but the savings numbers are all made up with no tie to reality. Moneys not stolen, because the savings were never real... dude's managing to shut down half the functions of the government, lay off hundreds of thousands of people... and failing to reduce costs in the process.
The man is a thief, but there's nothing to steal here. He's lowering his totally bogus $ amount that he supposedly saved the government based on contract and lease cancellations.
Every single contract (~10) that I know very specific details about that was DOGE-cancelled has a problematic "savings" amount on the doge.gov website. Every one is wrong. That's just the 10 I know about where I have privileged information. There's currently more than 8000 listed. I suspect most of those have similar issues with the reported "savings" amount.
This is straight accounting that they are botching.
Nevermind that the $ savings is bogus even if the accounting was accurate. Because these cancellations are costing the US taxpayer big-time in the long run.
Literally the only creative bone in the Republican party is the accounting side.
Man, anytime I have been under an NDA it's been about boring, mostly useless stuff related to Canadian telecom stuff or upcoming Microsoft products since I work in print and deal with those companies. I wish I got to see stuff like what you get to see, probably way more interesting than knowing the Xbox 360 would use an amd gpu instead of nvidia or that carrier A's pricing strategy is to copy carrier B.
Unless you really care about 3080 vs 3600 funding or fixed price vs cost plus contracts, government finances aren't all that exciting.
I appreciate your input and I acknowledge I’m being a reactionary jerk off. Thanks for doing what you do.
There's a place for you both. One can bring the needed anger, the other can bring the details in case we can ever get some fucking justice in this world for these fucking fascist fucks. Myself, I wish a painful death on each of them. (NSA: I'm not going to cause their deaths, just rejoice when they die. They are thieving evil scumbags)
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