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This is the biggest argument I have against DOGE. There are easy wins you could make when it comes to government spending and efficiency and they are doing none

• ethbr1 1y ago
  I have yet to hear a convincing argument that DOGE is anything less than a poorly camouflaged data grab. Hopefully everyone involved goes to jail, once the government changes and starts charging people who break the law again.
  • blitzar 1y ago
    DOGE is a poorly camouflaged ideological purge. It takes a super special type of incompetence to fail to find any provable fraud, waste or abuse in US government spending.
    • watwut 1y ago
      The idea is that if you repeat "fraud, waste or abuse" it wont matter whether it is teue or not. And to be fair, the tactic of repeating lie worked of conservatives wery well in the long term.
    • orwin 1y ago
      I do not know about the US, but have have worked for a state admin. To be honest, there is a lot of inefficiencies, but the large majority of those exist to _prevent_ fraud. I could once again describe why, but the details aren't really important: i swear all waste and inefficiencies i've seen not caused by out-of-date software are in place to avoid fraud from low to mid-level employees. From that you have a choice: either you allow low level government employees to partake in the corruption and remove a lot of rules, or you leave those rules which makes running the admin cost more. I think the second solution is better even if it were to cost more (i'm not sure it does, corruption is expensive), because once government low level employees start to accept bribes, your country is fucked.
• whimsicalism 1y ago
  there are not easy wins without reducing entitlement spending or increasing receipts, both of which are politically quite hard