Re:Men claiming to be from DOGE show up at San Francisco Cit...
by steve_adams_86 on Friday February 14, 2025 @09:06PM
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What I want to understand is how much smaller will it be, and why are they targeting what they are at the moment? The administrations they've cut back only make up fractions of a percent of the overall spending, and make virtually no difference for the average person. One of them actually put more money back into the pockets of taxpayers than it cost them, and seems to have made no sense to discard. Why not target major cost centres?
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Re:Men claiming to be from DOGE show up at San Francisco Cit...
by wahnfrieden on Friday February 14, 2025 @09:16PM
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They also stopped $489 million of food aid to leave it to rot, which it has. That level of waste is not aligned with their mission statement to reduce waste. So the statement can't be trusted.
Re:Men claiming to be from DOGE show up at San Francisco Cit...
by scarab92 on Friday February 14, 2025 @09:47PM
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Even taking that unsourced statement as true, a single anecdotal accident doesn't invalidate an entire mission statement.
Re:Men claiming to be from DOGE show up at San Francisco Cit...
by wahnfrieden on Friday February 14, 2025 @10:03PM
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Sorry for not citing current mainstream headline news (I guess Fox is not airing this though) https://www.yahoo.com/news/usaid-inspector-fired-revealing-n...
If you are ignorant to widely-reported news, it's curious to dismiss it as anecdotal.
It's also curious to paint this an accident (before you knew anything about it) when it's the intended result of the order and an inspector was fired for attempting to raise effort to correct it.
Re:Men claiming to be from DOGE show up at San Francisco Cit...
by 9283409232 on Saturday February 15, 2025 @08:53AM
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Everything Elon claims is unsourced and often completely wrong but his followers seem to have no problem taking it at face value