DOGE

[PJay]

 

[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."

 

[PJay]

 

[PJay]

 

[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?

 

[PJay]

 

[phreddyp]

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

Why blame Musk? The problem is the same as always not many Americans are smarter than a gerbil. He has shown time and time again overpromising is a cash cow. Why the fu*k should HE change?

 

[PJay]

 

[GURPS]

They’re forked again! Yesterday, Bloomberg ran an encouraging story headlined, “Federal Workers Jump at Buyout Offers They Once Shunned.” DOGE sent a second buyout offer to federal employees, coloquially called “Fork in the Road Part 2,” and this time they seem to be listening. They should take the deal or quit complaining.



This time, Fork 2 is being stabbed from each agency, rather than as a centralized offer like Fork 1. Bloomberg reported that about 20,000 IRS employees —about 20% of the agency’s staff— accepted the forking offer. By comparison, only 3,700 of them took the first stab. The paper also reported that 3,700 prodded DOE workers took the new deal (double the 1,300 who jumped the first time), and 4,000 DOT workers have so far signed on (about 7% of the agency’s total).

It seems to be everywhere. Politico said the Pentagon’s entire “Digital Design Services” team is taking the deal (all 14 of them, but still).

Politico’s story reported that a “former senior Pentagon official” complained that DOGE’s delving into the Defense Department was damaging and unproductive. “They’re not really using AI, they’re not really driving efficiency. What they’re really doing is smashing everything,” the former official said.

Smashing everything sounds productive and helpful to me, but I wasn’t there.

The Fork 2 emails informed workers they were getting a second chance due to various ‘problems’ with the first offer. It reminded them that the agencies are working on reduction-in-force plans. Any employees who get “RIF’d” will get only one week of severance per year of service, plus their health care will end immediately. But if they take the buyout, they keep their full paychecks and their medical coverage through the end of September.

Following Trump’s first-week executive orders, agencies are now due to submit their reorganization plans, which are expected to include more yet waves of job cuts, new offers to work on Indian reservations, and, according to Politico, other “proposals that could make government jobs less attractive.”

What kind of other proposals? Yesterday, DOGE announced it was expanding its credit card audit, since there are still twice as many government-issued cards as employees.




No more credit cards to feed their soy latte habits. The clock is ticking. Take the fork.

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