Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes
by stouset on Saturday February 22, 2025 @11:07PM
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What DOGE has claimed to have cut is a similarly meaningless amount (and likely significantly overinflated), and what's worse, the value we were getting from those expenditures likely greatly exceeds what we were paying for them.
$500bn/yr would be about 15% of the annual budget. That number doesn't even pass a basic sniff test.
Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes
by starspangled on Sunday February 23, 2025 @01:40AM
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2% of US GDP is 500 billion. I don't know what you're confused about. I'm taking numbers linked from the IMF so perhaps you know better? Also it's obviously not a 2% increase over 45 years, it's a nearly 6% increase, so not sure if numbers are your strong suit here. At least you did admit I was correct though, so I don't know what you're really continuing to try argue about. What I wrote originally stands.
Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes
by kelnos on Sunday February 23, 2025 @04:17AM
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I think GP misread what you were saying, and thought you were asserting that DOGE had cut $500B/yr of spending.
(I sympathize; I read it that way myself at first, but realized what you actually meant during a confused re-read.)
What Trump / DOGE has proposed or claimed to have cut amounts to far less than $500 billion / year from the budget. Like 1/10th that amount. Yet people are seriously concerned about those cuts. Clearly it's not a reasonable amount, as you would understand if you had any idea of the context of this conversation.