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Instead you got a buggy ****up on the part of DOGE.
You prefer autocracy.
Dude, you lied.
Instead you got a buggy ****up on the part of DOGE.My wife and I are old people who would mind very much. And because if that,m I want a clean, efficient system to make certain that the checks of present and soon-to-be old people keep getting their checks. I'm unhappy that it all depends on a 60 year-old software system on which billions have been spent on a project that will never finish.
You prefer autocracy.Ok. You prefer the political lies. Thats up to you.
Dude, you lied.Sure. Then where will nothings like Kamala Harris get her billion and a half?
Get real. Do you expect candidates for President to run on signs they paint in their homes at night?I said take the money out of our politics. All the money. All the lobby money - all the campaign money.
You don't know who the people on the DOGE team are, do you? Many of them are people who are very successful at their own businesses, ranging from M & A to manufacturing, to software, to multiple businesses.Instead you got a buggy ****up on the part of DOGE.
No, there are a lot of things I prefer from government, and one of them is a bare minimum of efficiency, a minimum of useless spending of our money. It would be nice if the government ran that way all the time, but it doesn't, and once in a while - as even Obama and Biden said - it needs a good cleaning.You prefer autocracy.
You throw that word around too easiiy. What did I "lie" about?Dude, you lied.
I am real. Very real.Get real.
Spouting reductio ad absurdum doesn't support your position. Elections for president should be publicly funded with strict guidelines. They should probably be confined to only 10 months time, certainly not 2-1/2 years, like Trump's most recent run. No other democracy in the world has campaigns for public office at anywhere near that length of time, nor the expen$e that the US does, and ours continues to get worse every cycle.Do you expect candidates for President to run on signs they paint in their homes at night?
Publicly funded federal elections are one option.Get real. Do you expect candidates for President to run on signs they paint in their homes at night?
You don't know who the people on the DOGE team are, do you? Many of them are people who are very successful at their own businesses, ranging from M & A to manufacturing, to software, to multiple businesses.
Like forestry personnel during an epidemic of wildfires?No, there are a lot of things I prefer from government, and one of them is a bare minimum of efficiency, a minimum of useless spending of our money. It would be nice if the government ran that way all the time, but it doesn't, and once in a while - as even Obama and Biden said - it needs a good cleaning.
You lied about what @MamboDervish said. Blatantly.You throw that word around too easiiy. What did I "lie" about?
People who are good at their business niche aren't necessarily good working outside of it as the DOGE team is proving:You don't know who the people on the DOGE team are, do you? Many of them are people who are very successful at their own businesses, ranging from M & A to manufacturing, to software, to multiple businesses.
Good luck.Publicly funded federal elections are one option.
No other democracy in the world has 160 million voters in 50 states spread over 3-1/2 million square miles.No other democracy in the world has campaigns for public office at anywhere near that length of time, nor the expen$e that the US does, and ours continues to get worse every cycle.
Isn't going to happen. It would have to be done by the very people you want to deprive of the money. There's no national referendum, so the people can't force it.Take the $$$ out of our politics, and everything changes for the better.
They haven't. Firing some of the surplus bureaucrats (just like Bill Clinton did to 400,000 of them) is necessary every so often. Bureaucracies grow like weeds otherwise. That's partly the "Use it or lose it" rule of government agencies. Closing millions of bad records in the benefits database is a good idea. Not spending money to publish trans comic books in another country is a good idea. It amazes me how Democrats can be so firmly against cutting the cost - not the domestic benefits - by making government more efficient and less wasteful. Why is that? Is it just that your political opponents are doing it?Amazing how they ****ed all this up so badly, then.
ABC News reports that 2,000 probationary, non-firefighting personnel were terminated.Like forestry personnel during an epidemic of wildfires?
Those few people were reinstated.Or the team that maintains our nukes?
NBC News reports that the "several" people were fired by accident and are being rehired.Or the people working on the bird flu?
Sorry. I don't keep track of people like that, Do you have a post number?You lied about what @MamboDervish said. Blatantly.
That's why there are a variety of backgrounds among the staff, including personnel, finance, systems, etc.People who are good at their business niche aren't necessarily good working outside of it as the DOGE team is proving
No, he hasn't. This is a new business, from the ground up. Any new venture will make mistakes. What matters is how well they recover from those mistakes and move on.Steve Davis, DOGE COO: has done a poor job of coordinating the efforts of the DOGE team.
Maybe Gebbia and the people working with him know how to do that. The medium we're on proves you wrong about the ability to digitize large amounts of paper. Do you imagine that all of the laws in all of the states plus federal laws, for example, were digitized originally, plus all of the medical, agricultural, industrial and everything else? Yes, it was done by lots of people but what Gebbia has to do is a very small amount compared to all that.Joe Gebbia, Airbnb co-founder is trying to digitize millions of retirement papers. It can't be done in 4 or 8 or 50 years but at least he's trying. It would be smarter to start with current retirees and simply forget about trying with all of the millions of papers filed in that Pennsylvania mine.
I look at the DOGE site fairly often, and have never found it to be down. What site are you referring to?Aram Moghaddassi, a software engineer in charge of protecting SocSec against fraud who can't get and keep a website up gets an F so far;
No, it wasn't. NIH funding was reduced to limit the amount that would be given for overhead (exactly as the largest private foundations do), but none of their research money was cut. If that's not what you meant, what was?Brad Smith says his #1 goal is “...making sure we continue to have the best biomedical research in the world.” And then funding in all important areas of the research was cut to the point of jeopardizing all of the research.
hasn't missed a payment in decadesNo, it isn't. Schumer and many other Dems say that Trump is going to cut SS BENEFITS. That's a lie, as it has been every election cycle.
He has "touched" the SSA - "A" stands for Administration - where they have terrible record keeping and inefficient systems. Are you in favor of keeping both of those?
etc.................That's not "discrediting" SS - it's a fact. Ponzi schemes take money from new investors to pay older investors. That's what it has been ever since Lyndon Johnson opened the "lock box," leaving almost nothing in the Trust Fund but IOU's. It's working, so far, but - like all Ponzi schemes - it'll collapse unless something is done to save it.
you drank the koolaidWhen did you ever hear of a reduction in surplus workers where they didn't say it would "disrupt the system." All of the civilian government has too many, which you can tell by the fact that most of them haven't even come to work for years. And you know that people being what they are, many of those people are doing next to nothing.
True, but it uses too much taxpayer money for non-productive items. Wouldn't it be better to not miss the checks and spend less on overhead?hasn't missed a payment in decades
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I'll only say that I have some experience managing people.you drank the koolaid
disagree---"non-productive"True, but it uses too much taxpayer money for non-productive items. Wouldn't it be better to not miss the checks and spend less on overhead?
welcome to the clubI'll only say that I have some experience managing people.
Non-productive - Overhead = Costs that don't produce a product or activity that is the primary object of the enterprise, e.g., idle time that is wrongly identified as being used to produce said product or service.disagree---"non-productive"
Then you're aware of practices in which excessive time is spent on activities that aren't in a chain of activities needed to produce the service for which the organization exists. That's "waste."welcome to the club
Keep watching Trump.READ THIS! READ THIS! READ THIS!
Republicans, Democrats, leberals and conservatives, read this America is no longer the leader of the free world. See how all of our former allies and world partners look at America. We are better than this.
There is not one false thing written here. What it discusses is not up for debate. It is based on fact, sad facts but facts none the less.
America is no longer the leader of the free world.
The American Age Is Over
Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.www.thebulwark.com
I pray he is ranked as a good president when his term is over-------but history suggests otherwise.....Keep watching Trump.
What in his past suggests otherwise. Give an actual example and support itI pray he is ranked as a good president when his term is over-------but history suggests otherwise.....
? Is that an order??? LolWhat in his past suggests otherwise. Give an actual example and support it
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