DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes

Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by bamboozled on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:40PM (#43143535)

Won’t wiping all this stuff just lead us into a Great Depression anyway ? I’m not an expert on the topic but my basic understanding was that we (government) just decided we didn’t have any money, so everything just stopped.

Like shutting all this stuff down or radically cutting it back will surely have some dire economic impacts?

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by throw16180339 on Saturday February 22, 2025 @05:22PM (#43143876)

Firing this many government employees, canceling grants, and imposing tariffs guarantees at least a recession.

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by sroussey on Saturday February 22, 2025 @05:39PM (#43144008)

The government can just print money. So much so that inflation goes crazy and the national debt is pennies. Same with your savings. We have a lot of savers that are old. Wait until they are gone.

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by intended on Saturday February 22, 2025 @05:22PM (#43143877)

Yup. I’ve seen 2 grand disasters like this each worse than the last. Demonitization in India, Brexit, and now this.

None of those other events had the same depth of damage going on here. America is dead, and doesn’t know it yet.

The only reason people aren’t saying this everywhere, is because this is unbelievable.

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by TylerE on Saturday February 22, 2025 @05:21PM (#43143868)

Yes. These cuts will set our nation back by decades. Institutions are being destroyed, and with them cultural and institutional knowledge that will never come back.

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