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I'll bite. I'm probably being naive here, but if you were in charge of a new department in your company responsible for bringing much-needed fiscal austerity,
by guiambros 2y ago
I'll bite.
I'm probably being naive here, but if you were in charge of a new department in your company responsible for bringing much-needed fiscal austerity, wouldn't your first stop be at the account payable office?
There are other more nefarious potential interpretations for why they want access, and I know it's entertaining to s**t on billionaires, but Occam's razor would say this is the obvious place to start looking when you want to cut federal spend.
Get access to the data, scrutinize it, and understand where tf $6 trillion dollars are going to. Trust, but verify. We know the topline [1] -- social security, national defense, medicare/health, etc -- but at this scale, the devil is in the details. Even a rounding error would be worth billions of dollars in savings.
[1] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/ https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
- andrewjf 2y agoUnelected, unconfirmed by the senate. Literally just henchmen. This isn't how a democracy works.
- gibbitz 2y agoAlso just sharing credentials for anything like this says you don't actually know tech or cyber security. It's like putting your 7 year old in charge of the military because he knows more about tanks than you. These shared creds will likely end in ransomware attacks on this office and any others it can network with. I hope when the government falls there are some places in the world where the economy doesn't fail. RN it doesn't feel like this is going to end well.
- supportengineer 2y agoRealistically how can we keep our money safe?
- libertarian1 2y ago[flagged]
- andrewjf 2y agoThe executive is not a king. There's checks and balances in this country, and the congress is responsible for the purse and confirming principal positions. Do you disagree with transparency and oversight?
- timeon 2y ago> in your company This is the point where you have made mistake in your assumption. Democratic countries are not private companies. (But even in your metaphor: this unelected individual is performing hostile take-over.)
- thisisnotauser 2y agoAll government spending is already public information. The United States Congress is already responsible for that spending, not the unelected henchmen of some rich Nazi.
- viraptor 2y agoThen a detailed report can be requested. Even for practical reasons, you don't want to enter a new system that you know nothing about and start digging from scratch. If you want quick answers, you'd normally start by asking people who ran it for ages. Then follow up (provided you have authority to do that)