DOGE

[chop2chip]

People point to a million here a million there and that's fine. If you save 10 billion that sounds like a lot, but in the scheme of the whole federal budget that's silly.

$10b is a substantial amount of money. The fact that it can be conceived as “silly” is a symptom of the problem. No one who is serious about budgeting can have this mindset because it has a snowball effect.

 

[sturg33]

$10b is a substantial amount of money. The fact that it can be conceived as “silly” is a symptom of the problem. No one who is serious about budgeting can have this mindset because it has a snowball effect.

I work for a company who is now in its 11th year.... we are on track to earn $1B in revenue for the first time. The company is ecstatic and and it is a major milestone. 1500 employees, 15,000 corporate customers... 40 million consumers, etc.

then you read about how the federal government will just piss away $30b on some climate analysis in Singapore on spiders and it gets pretty demoralizing thinking about all the hard work the private sector does compared to the fed

 

[zitothebrave]

$10b is a substantial amount of money. The fact that it can be conceived as “silly” is a symptom of the problem. No one who is serious about budgeting can have this mindset because it has a snowball effect.

It's silly because taking 10B from one pot and moving it to another isn't saving anything.

If I take spend 500 dollars in cash for a switch 2 or charge it ot my debit card there's no difference. It's still spending 500 cash.

 

[chop2chip]

If I take spend 500 dollars in cash for a switch 2 or charge it ot my debit card there's no difference. It's still spending 500 cash.

okay

has nothing to do with spending cuts

But good luck getting your Switch 2 preorder tonight

 

[57Brave]

 

[mqt]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1916212940887204278

We’re going to pay people actual tax dollars to ensure exhibits that already exist and provides a cultural perspective, such as you might find in a museum, is removed from display. We will then presumably pay for suitable replacements. So glad we did this DOGE thing.

 

[57Brave]

Who feigns disability for a puny , no,
disgrasfully low stipend ?

Yet, ...

 

[mqt]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1916946294842577040

At least we’re cutting spending, right?

PS: spending 8 times as much on ICE officers as you plan to on immigration courts is part of the problem.

 

[mqt]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1917223651625099407

This isn’t billions in savings or anything, but this is a genuinely good thing that DOGE appears to have addressed. I don’t think a vast majority of those rejections are stopping any fraud, but we should expect the people spending our tax dollars to dot their i’s and cross their t’s.