$36T in debt, most of within the last 20 years. I would say that the government is doing a pretty good job of destroying the country all by themselves. While DOGE is certainly not perfect (because nothing is), finding the waste, fraud, and abuse which we all know exists in our federal expenditures should be important to all of us. Based on what has been reported so far, it is nauseating. It would still be nauseating even if it was only 25% of what’s been reported. I learned a long time ago from a great mentor that waste is waste is waste. It doesn’t matter if it’s $1K or $1M, or $1B. That advice has served me very well personally. I hear many people say;”oh,we’re a big company, we can afford it”. This statement is nonsense. Large organizations can apply that statement to honest mistakes, they happen. But it is not applicable to incompetence, directing funds to bad suppliers, wasting money on things that do not either; lower cost, improve product or service, or are mandatory for legal or ethical reasons. Based on what we have seen so far, the vast majority of the expenses exposed so far do not benefit you, me, or the average citizen. I say exposed instead of found because I think we all have suspected this for a while now. For me, let DOGE do their work. We can figure out what to do after everything has been exposed.
DOGE is cutting first, asking questions later. What could possibly go wrong when you blindly cut government services? Just ask the nuclear team Musk fired, who he now wants to rehire, but can't find them. Nobody supports wasteful spending. But the way Musk is going about cutting has some serious risk. And zero input from Congress, where government money spending is supposed to come from.
Waste is like Dallas grass in a St Augustine yard. If you don’t get rid of it, it will spread and change the nature of your yard. Once you condone waste, it becomes quite easy to engage in more waste.
Yep, governance is gathering relevant info, then presenting it to the congressional committees that oversee the departments in question, then advocating for legal/regulatory/budgetary changes to address the concerns. Trump et al want to skip all that and just do it by decree, like a king.
I see your point and if we had a responsible congress I would agree completely. Congress has been somewhere between allowed and directed this waste for decades. If they were doing their jobs we would have heard from the opposition party in many of these cases. Since we haven’t, it’s fairly. safe to assume that they don’t care enough to object.
Yes, absolutely. He said he could cut 2 trillion. I think he should do what he said he was going to do.
Robert ABarnes: "The Constitution compels the President to publish to the public an account of all receipts & expenditures of the people's money, as well as prohibit unauthorized expenditures. @DOGE fulfills @realDonaldTrump Constitutional oath."
Heroin is not the only derivative of poppies. Opium is also a derivative of poppies and is used to make morphine, codeine, hydrocodone and oxycodone. Where does it say exactly that we were helping Afghan farmers to make heroin specifically?
So, you heard it on the Joe Rogan show? lmao The problem is that people hear about USAID helping Afghan farmers grow poppies and they automatically assume that it was for heroin production when poppies are also used to make other drugs like morphine, codeine, hydrocodone and oxycodone. These knee-jerk reactions are going to cause a lot of problems for DOGE as they already accidentally fired nuclear weapons workers who are critical to maintaining US nuclear stockpiles. If this cut-first, investigate later scheme continues, it's going to seriously come back to bite DOGE in the ass as it already has...
Agree, the real issue is that Newt Gingrich broke Congress by telling one side to take their ball and refuse to play, and allowing obstructionism to be the mode of business exactly so the case could be made to hand this power to a Republican executive branch. This, along with the judicial maneuvers to keep Democratic presidents from sitting their legitimate SC picks is what has led us to Elon Musk auditing government. Only an idiot would think this is the right way to go about it, ignore the Constitution, elect a King for life.
Afghan opiates supply 8 out of 10 opiate users worldwide, UNODC finds, as experts meet in Vienna to combat illicit trafficking Afghan opiates supply 8 out of 10 opiate users worldwide, UNODC finds, as experts meet in Vienna to combat illicit trafficking www.unodc.org/conig/en/stories/afghan-opiates-supply-8-out-of-10-opiate-users-worldwide--unodc-finds--as-experts-meet-in-vienna-to-combat-illicit-
Yes, because the Republicans broke Congress so they could invest the President with Congressional Powers, i.e. be a King instead of a co-equal branch of government. Now you understand why Donald Trump is attempting to do the job appointed to Congress by the Constitution - the far right has only been driving this bus the last 30 years trying to reach this! Turns out all they were missing was Putin buddy Elon Musk, an unelected co-conspirator under investigation, to push the Putin puppet, the 34 time felon, Donald Trump, over the finish line. Is the light finally starting to come on or is it just the sun setting?
