The Blob is now more transparent
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Believe what you're told, just like you accuse the liberals of doing.
Two trillion. No, one trillion. Sorry, 175 billion. Where's the fraud and abuse?
That should cover the interest in the national debt for about two months.
So after 4 months, Elon is bailing. Not on great terms as he trashes the Big Beautiful Bill as he heads out the back door. Declare victory.
www.theguardian.com
Two trillion. No, one trillion. Sorry, 175 billion. Where's the fraud and abuse?
That should cover the interest in the national debt for about two months.
So after 4 months, Elon is bailing. Not on great terms as he trashes the Big Beautiful Bill as he heads out the back door. Declare victory.
Musk is pivoting from DC and Doge’s failures – and wants investors to know
The billionaire mogul is signaling far and wide that he’s back to business, and even criticizing Trump’s tax bill
The title was that the Blob is now more transparent. A gov website shows the transparency. Did you think it was more transparent before or just didn't consider the title and website?Believe what you're told, just like you accuse the liberals of doing.
Two trillion. No, one trillion. Sorry, 175 billion. Where's the fraud and abuse?
That should cover the interest in the national debt for about two months.
So after 4 months, Elon is bailing. Not on great terms as he trashes the Big Beautiful Bill as he heads out the back door. Declare victory.
Musk is pivoting from DC and Doge’s failures – and wants investors to know
The billionaire mogul is signaling far and wide that he’s back to business, and even criticizing Trump’s tax bill
Transparency implies that what they are showing us is true. Do you agree?
Your posting history demonstrates a clear mistrust of the government. All gone now?
Actually transparency is what is says...transparent, meaning in open display. A display like a court decision may be open and correct or wrong. I believe the Blob is too large and invites fraud and inefficiency...and even things of which it shouldn't be involved. Those things have already been shown to exist due to DOGE and it makes it easy to wonder what the total is after several years as well as the total avoidance in several years should the media have accurate coverage.
Making positive improvements, but perhaps less that desired, is like the losing team after the first quarter pointing out the winning team was only ahead by 10 pts instead of 25 or such...totally unaware of what is really being said
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."
Thomas Sowell
Lol. So you're saying there's a government website listing the savings from DOGE........and therefore they are being transparent. But if the info is BS, what good is transparency?
Doge has been unmitigated failure. I applaud the intent and effort by trump. But like many of his ideas, this was poorly planned and executed. He's not a detail guy and he puts loyalists instead of qualified people in charge of these things. That's because it's all for show, there's no real intent to solve the problem.
"As of May 26, DOGE's online "wall of receipts" touts estimated savings of $175bn since the start of Trump's term, or $1,086.96 per taxpayer. The problem is that this figure may simply be nonsense.
Analysis by The New York Timeslast month found numerous errors in DOGE's numbers, including counting government contracts that had not yet been awarded, counting contracts that had ended years ago, triple-counting the same savings, and confusing "million" with "billion".
DOGE has since corrected some of those errors. Yet even today, many of its purported savings — including the three biggest on the list — treat the maximum potential value of a cancelled government contract as the actual amount saved, even if it did not legally require Uncle Sam to pay a single cent. (When The Independent tallied Musk's own contracts back in February, we counted only binding commitments in our headline figures.
Other entries on DOGE’s website give no information and offer no evidence, simply listing the name of the contract vendor or contract description as "unavailable".
Some of these cuts arguably produce waste rather than reduce it. Cancelling ongoing scientific studies before they can deliver results means effectively throwing away any money already spent. And if we zoom out, more reliable data shows that overall government spending has risen by around six to seven percentcompared to the same period last year."
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting has failed. But he has achieved something more dangerous
After 128 days inside the Trump administration, the world’s richest person has struggled to deliver on his wild budget promises. Yet that doesn’t mean he’s accomplished nothing, writes Io Dodds
www.the-independent.com
Instead of bitching about the numbers being right or wrong, any true savings of waste in my book is good. I hope the agency continues on to find government waste.Lol. So you're saying there's a government website listing the savings from DOGE........and therefore they are being transparent. But if the info is BS, what good is transparency?
Doge has been unmitigated failure. I applaud the intent and effort by trump. But like many of his ideas, this was poorly planned and executed. He's not a detail guy and he puts loyalists instead of qualified people in charge of these things. That's because it's all for show, there's no real intent to solve the problem.
"As of May 26, DOGE's online "wall of receipts" touts estimated savings of $175bn since the start of Trump's term, or $1,086.96 per taxpayer. The problem is that this figure may simply be nonsense.
Analysis by The New York Timeslast month found numerous errors in DOGE's numbers, including counting government contracts that had not yet been awarded, counting contracts that had ended years ago, triple-counting the same savings, and confusing "million" with "billion".
DOGE has since corrected some of those errors. Yet even today, many of its purported savings — including the three biggest on the list — treat the maximum potential value of a cancelled government contract as the actual amount saved, even if it did not legally require Uncle Sam to pay a single cent. (When The Independent tallied Musk's own contracts back in February, we counted only binding commitments in our headline figures.
Other entries on DOGE’s website give no information and offer no evidence, simply listing the name of the contract vendor or contract description as "unavailable".
Some of these cuts arguably produce waste rather than reduce it. Cancelling ongoing scientific studies before they can deliver results means effectively throwing away any money already spent. And if we zoom out, more reliable data shows that overall government spending has risen by around six to seven percentcompared to the same period last year."
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting has failed. But he has achieved something more dangerous
After 128 days inside the Trump administration, the world’s richest person has struggled to deliver on his wild budget promises. Yet that doesn’t mean he’s accomplished nothing, writes Io Dodds
Elon worked about 9% of a four year term. Had he continued there would be more savings. Still, many savings today were money that would have been spent many times over. He had some cost avoidance savings as well.
Who knows what would have happened without the media working people into a froth? The reality is you could probably cut 15% from every department without any issues after a short term of adjustment. However, doing so reduces government employees voting for their paycheck. Think of the decades the waste has went on in the past
