Dear conservative republicans;
The real government waste isn’t the social, research, or effective* environmental programs. It’s the bloated loopholed taxcode, the MIC, the revolving doors, the thousand dollar trashcans, the no-bid contracts, the croissant-like layers of middlemen, the labyrinthine beauroccracy of means-testing that costs more than it saves, and the reluctance to directly employ and retain skilled labor for public projects.
Poor black brown and gay people aren’t ruining your country. Monied interests are, and they’re using you to do it. (dems also but not the subject of this post)
this needs to be addressed to the republican voters
the republicans in office already know all this and don’t care
The conservative voters are too obsessed over ridiculous “issues” like “men in women’s sports”.
Since the MAGAts started electing themselves, I kinda doubt it actually.
The amount of money that’s been wasted over DOGE is likely in the trillions…
Like, there’s $5 upkeep to prevent a $5k problem.
DOGE would cut upkeep, and if that $5 trickled thru multiple agencies they counted it everytime.
Agency 1 pays 2, pays 3; same $5, they cancel and claim to have saved $15.
Then be cause no upkeep was done, we gotta pay $5k to fix the problem, and if we still don’t do upkeep, we’ll need to pay 5k again, and again, and again
Even once we start doing “upkeep” again, it’s going to be more expensive.
At the height of this DOGE bullshit, I knew someone who was referencing that site numerous times to back up his claims about government waste. I simply responded, “Okay, so that data is getting audited and verified, yes? How do we know they’re not simply lying to justify getting rid of people and programs they simply don’t like?”
He looked at me with this dumb look on his face.
That’s how fucking stupid these people are.
That 100% tracks with almost every idiot I know who obsesses over “government waste”.
Did you ever ask this guy if he thought massive giveaways (along with backrubs and reach-arounds and blowjobs) being given to the wealthy and to corporations was “government waste”? What about spending on things like a border wall or on ICE?
It’s such an easy sell. We pay so much in taxes but get so little back. The idea that government must be wasting it is easy to swallow: I’m not thriving so they must be wasting all that tax money.
Also: good government and the spending involved with it is often complicated and morons have little interest in actually trying to understand complex systems and how they may interoperate with one another.
But if an idiot hears about $500 hammers or something about “woke” (the modern equivalent of “welfare queen”) or some story on Faux about some guy eating lobster and steak, and they jump right to the conclusion that it is all waste. No thought required; it’s all about the vibes, maaaaan.
You jest, but I guess in a society that doesn’t sufficiently value education (and whose government employs actors who actively sabotage it), all anyone has to go on is vibes.
No, because it would make no difference. But I never have to see or speak to that moron ever again. He and my wife’s friend (who has since become my friend, too) got a divorce and we were never really his friend, anyway, just someone we tolerated for her sake.
WHAAAAAAAT? NO! HOW CAN THIS BE??
And the consequences for those involved?
At the very least there should be an investigation as to how this data was developed, so that we can avoid making this ‘mistake’ in the future. Right?..
Strongly worded letters going out any day now.
Didn’t we know this was the case like right as they posted it? I remember they even had to change shit on the website because people were pointing it out how unrealistic it was.
Yes, for sure. Immediately.
I was on a $9M research contract that was cancelled by DOGE. Their website listed that contract as $9M saved. The problem? We were nearly done with the work. We had spent $8M.
The remaining $1M of work was data review, publishing findings, and preparing public datasets and documentation.
So they only “saved” $1M. But really, they lost $8M because at contract end we were instructed to destroy all the collected data and the government ended up with basically nothing. So that work and those findings will never see the light of day.
Cancelling that contract at that point was the work of fucking idiots.
That’s just one story. The DOGE website has thousands of cancelled contracts listed.
I know why the news is running stories likes this… but, Why isn’t the new running stories like this?!! It’s scandalous but in a sfw way you can gossip around the water cooler about, and easy to understand.
Ugh. I hate this reality.
Well to be fair to the pieces of shit, they didn’t write anything and probably only read half of what their Ai shat out.
Not even just unrealistic, if I recall it regularly was posting the same handful of things multiple times
Elon forgot to write “up to” before his savings numbers. Rookie mistake. Dude needs more time in a mattress store.
He needs more time in a dank, dark dungeon.
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Tangential, but It looks like musk and kim jong un, go to the same barber/hair-transplanter.
“In addition, when government data are not reliable, it can hinder the public’s trust in government,” the report stated.
Theat was the whole point, though. If enough voters don’t trust government, they will give Republicans permission to shrink it so small they can drown it in the bathtub.
They’re just saying that. They won’t shrink it, they need the government to control everyone and remove the undesirables.
You mean the richest piece of shit on the planet is a corrupt liar? It can’t be so!
What a fucking asshat.
And looking at the finances of a State only through expenses and revenues is completely missing the point (on purpose here obviously).
Shocked.
