DOGE

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[PJay]

"The IRS has allowed illegal aliens to file using Social Security numbers (either stolen or given to them by our own government) or TIN (Taxpayer Identification Numbers) the IRS allowed them to obtain/use in lieu of having a SSN. However you slice it, the federal government was 100% complicit in fleecing America. Treason."

 

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[PeoplesElbow]

I've never understood why anyone trusts Musk when he promises something he always over promises, exaggerates etc. From when full self driving would be available to cyber truck price and range. I can't actually recall a time when he delivered exactly what he said he would. Anyone that has paid attention I've been saying this since when Musk was a liberal so it doesn't have a thing to do with politics.

Elon Musk lowers DOGE's estimated savings — again

Elon Musk says the White House DOGE office will save $150 billion in the 2026 fiscal year. It's not the ambitious pace he once said was possible.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[BOP]

15 minutes; well worth the watch.

Milton Friedman's warning to DOGE​

The Nobel Prize-winning economist says the Iron Triangle of Politics must be defeated to cut down the government for good.
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"Wise words," wrote Elon Musk about this 1999 viral clip described as "Milton Friedman casually giving the blueprint for DOGE [the Department of Government Efficiency]" as he ticks off a list of federal government agencies he'd be comfortable eliminating.

Musk is right. Friedman, a Nobel Prize–winning libertarian economist, did offer a solid blueprint for creating a smaller, less intrusive government. At the peak of his fame, he seemed poised to influence an American president to finally slash the federal bureaucracy.

But those efforts ended in disappointment because they were blocked by what Friedman called the Iron Triangle of Politics.

Slashing government waste and making the federal bureaucracy more accountable are incredibly important. But President Donald Trump and Musk are hitting the same wall President Ronald Reagan did more than four decades ago.

Now more than ever, it's time to pay attention to Milton Friedman's advice for how to defeat the tyranny of the status quo.

DOGE's mission to rein in our catastrophic debt and unrestrained federal government is one of the most important political battles of our time. But it's a mission that will need more than a single executive agency to ultimately succeed: It needs a mass political movement.

 

[BOP]

Maybe link this to the sudden wealth gain of the Democrats.

Maybe?