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DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes

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Re: DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes

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I like that the focus is on the issues with the disruptors that have been running for a few weeks, not the egregious spending for decades.

One could agree with the goals of reducing government spending and still argue that "the disruptors" are moving too fast and breaking too many things.

Re: DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes

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I like that the focus is on the issues with the disruptors that have been running for a few weeks, not the egregious spending for decades.

And honestly it’s been both parties who have been more than happy to pay lip service to the problem but instead of paring things add additional oversight that has no enforcement power so they only add more weight to the bureaucracy with a few reports no one reads to show for. In the face of deficits, they don’t retrench as individuals and private entities have to.

Totally agree. I think the debt is at 100k per taxpayer. Either taxes or inflation will have to be used to pay that.

Re: DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes

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I like that the focus is on the issues with the disruptors that have been running for a few weeks, not the egregious spending for decades.

That egregious spending bears a family resemblance to the malfeasance that cost Trump the 2020 election and Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

I bet back in the day you were the complaining about 200000$ toilet seats in Iraq. Now that’s it’s not on your side of politics it’s a fabrication

Re: DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes

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I like that the focus is on the issues with the disruptors that have been running for a few weeks, not the egregious spending for decades.

One could agree with the goals of reducing government spending and still argue that "the disruptors" are moving too fast and breaking too many things.

Sure, where are the nytimes articles that praise and highlight the good cuts?

Re: DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes

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I like that the focus is on the issues with the disruptors that have been running for a few weeks, not the egregious spending for decades.

I personally wouldn't want my government run by unchecked people who get the value of something off by three orders of magnitude. In a meritocracy private company someone confusing 8M with 8B is at best put in a closet job. More likely getting fired, and probably getting sued. When Jerome Kerviel was off by 5B he went to prison.

Re: DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

And honestly it’s been both parties who have been more than happy to pay lip service to the problem but instead of paring things add additional oversight that has no enforcement power so they only add more weight to the bureaucracy with a few reports no one reads to show for. In the face of deficits, they don’t retrench as individuals and private entities have to.

both parties invoked in highly assymetrical situation is getting old.

Who in the Repubs doesn’t like spending? Like maybe three of them?

Re: DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

And honestly it’s been both parties who have been more than happy to pay lip service to the problem but instead of paring things add additional oversight that has no enforcement power so they only add more weight to the bureaucracy with a few reports no one reads to show for. In the face of deficits, they don’t retrench as individuals and private entities have to.

Totally agree. I think the debt is at 100k per taxpayer. Either taxes or inflation will have to be used to pay that.

Debt goes up during republican goverment and down during democratic one, so anyone who cares for it would not vote for conservatives.

Nor for Trump whose lifetime history is to make debt go up and then fail upwards.

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