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Re:Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from 'The Com' by adamrezich on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:46AM (#42997557)
It's so strange to see this become a Partisan Issue so quickly and easily, when just a few short years ago everyone on the Internet cheered on Ron Paul's cries to Audit The Fed. (Yes, I know, “the Fed” means the Federal Reserve, and not the federal government—but that's clearly in the cards, too.)

And it's not as though the pre-smartphone Internet was majority Republican, of course—quite the opposite, if anything!

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Re:Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from 'The Com' by matwood on Monday February 10, 2025 @03:03AM (#42997917)
An audit means transparency and accountability, neither of which we have here.
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Re:Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from 'The Com' by adamrezich on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:47AM (#43002294)
One must ask oneself if one's views on the matter would be the same if the exact same actions were done by one's preferred political party, and reported upon favorably instead of unfavorably.
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Re:Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from 'The Com' by adamrezich on Monday February 10, 2025 @09:42PM (#43008345)
Uh, I guess one mustn't ask oneself this, judging by downvotes!
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Re:Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from 'The Com' by someothherguyy on Monday February 10, 2025 @12:23PM (#43002719)
> Ron Paul's cries to Audit The Fed

Its "End the Fed"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_the_Fed

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Re:Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from 'The Com' by adamrezich on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:24PM (#43003414)
Yes, that the title of a book he wrote, as well as his eventual end goal for sure.

But he and others (including his son Rand, and Bernie Sanders) have also used the phrase “Audit The Fed” repeatedly as well, for various “Federal Reserve Transparency Acts”[0] over the years, since 2009—including a bipartisan one with Senator Grassley just this past November.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Transparency_A...

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