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I think hes aware of that and has said as much - This is about informing the American people just how much we've been robbed for decades.
I think this is important work as well.
But this doesn’t effectively address that for all the reasons we’ve already discussed. If Trump and Musk cannot get senior leadership in place that can handle the Herculean task of figuring out if the people in their reporting chain merely exist and complete at least 5 tasks per week, then I’m not quite sure why you think they should be in charge of the federal workforce in the first place. But asking a couple million people to send their accomplishments to someone in a different department to make sure they’re productive is the exact kind of logic I’d expect the federal government to already be using, not an elite task force taking on administrative bloat.
Why do you think its not going to them directly?
Musk and team are building a data repository and probably creating dashboards for the department heads to review. They have already intimated that the IT enviornment was archaic so these systems that are being created are more likely than not more efficient than aything in place beofre.
You’re a smart guy, so what step in the overall process of building a data repository with dashboards for each department to review employee productivity does “have millions of employees send a list of their accomplishments” improve? I’m not opposed to a bunch of tech industry DOGE people improving government efficiency through new technology. Hell, it’s what the government said DOGE would be specifically doing. But these systems are not aided by adding the time draining step of making every single person send an email to Elon’s team with information they themselves cannot efficiently utilize with the very people I’m suggesting you just hold accountable (and are likely the actual problem if nobody is doing anything) in the first place.
Why is the data of “employee roster” and “literally any sort of digital footprint of their credentials” not sufficient for that data? If this were a government employee survey to find common pain points for federal workers or identify very broad trends of administrative waste present in numerous departments, I’d be on board. Threatening to take it as a resignation if they don’t respond to this email, then farming outrage against these employees online is not something I’m on board with though.
The nature of the responses helps a model learn and map to specific outcome brackets to help summarization which enhances usefulness of the model. It needs to be trained.
Trump won partially on a mandate to clean up DC. His voters don’t really care all that much of about career government officials who are “too busy” to give five bullet points on what they did for the week.
It’s such a simple task I can’t believe there is actually outrage on it.
You know independent voters can also identify clear and obvious bull**** when they see it, right? I think you overestimate the popularity of the edgelord cyber bully shtick and underestimate the extent to which many can separate “the federal bureaucracy” as a concept from individual people in their communities that work for the government in some capacity. Turns out faceless bureaucrats become much more sympathetic when they’re revealed to have a face, and that face is “Steve from the Post Office that always smiles and waves at me.”
I could certainly be proven wrong, but I suspect those numbers will fall a fair bit if the cuts are truly extensive. Flooding the job market at all levels in a weak economy while simultaneously cutting benefits seems to be the kind of policy outline that is generally more broadly popular in theory than in practice. And that’s not actually an argument against doing it. A lot of correct things are broadly unpopular. Hell, Arrested Development got cancelled after 3 seasons! But I feel like I’d be just a bit more wary of your messaging around this contraction of the federal government, particularly when your President sells his supporters Trump Bibles and the richest man in the world jokes about his conflicts of interest while complaining about normal people being greedy assholes and thieves. I think the audience for that kind of rhetoric is smaller than some in your movement might expect. I doubt it causes someone to vote for someone else all on its own, but I do think it reduces your margin for error if the economy doesn’t recover.
*writes “drive by a burned down church and laugh at any victims to own the cons” into my weekly Social Marxist playbook*
You think you’re finding $880 Billion in just Fraud and Administrative waste in Medicaid?
From what many experts are saying that this is very likely due to overbooking and over charging for drugs but I’m no expert in this area.
I think you’re just assuming there will be cuts despite trump always saying the opposite. There will not only be cuts though for non citizens. There won’t be anything at all.
I’m no expert in the field of Advanced Math, but if you cut taxes by trillions of dollars and don’t cut any benefits, where do the trillions of dollars come from? Say what you want about libs, but they at least generally understand the massive social welfare state requires taxes to fund it.