DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards

Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by jeroenhd on Thursday February 20, 2025 @06:29PM (#43121902)

Placing back the red tape and requiring everyone to follow the rules is step one in a malicious takeover. It makes everything slow and inefficient, making every department fail their objectives and deadlines, providing an invented basis for reducing/upending/replacing/getting rid of whatever policy/program/department you want to get rid of.

The goal isn't to reduce spending. It's to create bad press to get rid of parts of the government that get in the way of the cronies in charge.

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Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by tway223 on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:27PM (#43122508)

Exactly. This is all about power grab without going through a proper due process. The government is shitty and inefficient but DOGE is not the way to fix it.

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Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by timewizard on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:38PM (#43122619)

Requiring people to "follow the rules" is malicious? Why did we even make the rules in the first place? What is this mythical idea that a government without red tape will automatically be operating in your interest?

This is a Capraesque idea of Washington D.C..

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