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mqt said:
I think you’re missing the point. Yes, I’d wager that people as a whole do typically hate the institution of Congress. But they don’t have a filter for jobs in the federal government marked as wasteful/unwasteful, they just have jobs. Those jobs are then applied for and offered to normal Americans who otherwise would be in the private labor force. While you’ll always have some go-getters out there looking to seize the day and either make the government a fractional amount more productive or get fed up and leave for the private sector, that doesn’t mean the people being allowed to do a handful of hours of work per week are the villains here. If someone is in one of those jobs and getting away with it, you can think their job is wasteful and want it to be eliminated without also calling everyone affected a lazy little bitch. But many of the same people who authorized that staffing through legislation are the ones going for the throat of these regular workers and clutching their pearls about government waste. And I get that anybody in a wasteful role is being funded by my tax dollars, but that doesn’t make the situation any more their individual fault.
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You seem to not acknowledge the fact that the last 20 years has seen a radicalization of the DC workforce - Many thought they actually should be fighting against the incoming Trump admin.

In many cases yes these are 'normal' people but in reality there has been an ideological slant to most of these hires the last 20 years.
 
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chop2chip said:
The amount of animosity I see towards average Joe who works accounting in a random fed bureaucracy and not towards the millionaires in Congress who pass the “waste, fraud and abuse” and are poised to pass even more “waste, fraud, and abuse” despite R controlling both houses of legislature is quite cringeworthy.
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Between this and the jobs reports from the past couple years, maybe we shouldn’t take the government at their word when they tell us they did something.
 
mqt said:
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Between this and the jobs reports from the past couple years, maybe we shouldn’t take the government at their word when they tell us they did something.
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the best indicator im using is polymarkets...

right now they have DOGE cutting less than $250B as most likely outcome. And they have Trump deporting less than 500K as most likely outcome

we will get numerous "BREAKING" tweets telling us otherwise... but im not seeing it moving the needle until they start going after MAGA MIKE JOHNSON
 
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5305269/tesla-state-department-elon-musk-trump

In a statement to NPR on Monday, a State Department spokesperson said the $400 million figure was "an estimate," pointing out that it was in the early stages and was not yet a full contract, but rather a proposal "strictly to gather information."

The department spokesman added: "the Department of State has no intention to move forward with the solicitation."

In a Feb. 13 post on his social media platform, X, Musk, who is also a top White House official, said: "I'm pretty sure Tesla isn't getting $400M. No one mentioned it to me, at least."
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Maybe DOGE can add this $400 million to the ledger.
 
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Won’t anyone think of the poor *checks notes* *squints and checks notes again* unknown federal bureaucrat controlling our tax dollars?
 
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The content of this message being said with the tone it was said with nearly gave me an aneurism.
 
‪Robert Reich‬ ‪@rbreich.bsky.social‬
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DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.

Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.

Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.

See how this works?
 
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During his tenure as chief executive, the company defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs. The U.S. Department of Justice won 14 felony convictions against the company, which was fined $1.7 billion in what was at the time the largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history.[8][9] Following his departure from Columbia/HCA, Scott became a venture capitalist and pursued other business interests.

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I dont trust "DOGE cutting costs"
2 trust fund babies deciding who and what works, what could possibly go wrong

as in

‪Molly Jong-Fast‬ ‪@mollyjongfast.bsky.social‬ · 5h

[B]Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford

to have our government fund cancer research.[/B]
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saw a report this afternoon saying no, as in nyet, fraud has been uncovered
 
‪Techweenie‬ ‪@techweenie.bsky.social‬
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Here’s an idea:

If “waste, fraud and abuse” are actually being uncovered, could we see a couple examples that can be investigated and confirmed by an independent 3rd party?

Because I believe

DOGE is theater.
 
57Brave said:
I dont trust "DOGE cutting costs"

2 trust fund babies deciding who and what works, what could possibly go wrong

as in

‪Molly Jong-Fast‬ ‪@mollyjongfast.bsky.social‬ · 5h

[B]Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford

to have our government fund cancer research.[/B]

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saw a report this afternoon saying no, as in nyet, fraud has been uncovered
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Lets for a moment presume this is true...

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Why on earth would you have a problem with uncovering this?

I work in software sales... i cannot imagine selling more licenses to a business than they have actual employees.

It's not going to balance the budget... but why are you so offended they they are looking to find areas they can easily cut profit out of Microsoft and Salesforce?
 
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