Does Government/USAID have a duty to supply jobs?

@no1marauder said
Here's a hypothetical:

Kamala wins the 2024 election. She installs George Soros to root out "waste and fraud".

George's agency decides it's wasteful to have a Marine Corps these days - we don't need them to be snipers in the rigging of sailing ships anymore and everything they do can be handled by the Army.

So Kamala issues an executive order laying off the 200,0 ...[text shortened]... Breitbart and Fox News would be saying this was a perfectly constitutional action under Article II.

Your very premise shows us that you do not understand what Musk is doing, man.
He is looking for waste, fraud and abuse. In each department, including military. Theoretically, yes, if Soros (brrrr) went to the Oval with a few generals in tow and told Kamala that the army can do, 'handle', all the military jobs which are presently in the purview of the Marines, then we would praise Soros, and of course the Vision of Kamala , as she saves us Billions by reducing the Marines to a skeleton crew. That is the same job that Musk has. Cause all agencies to disappear if we do not need them, and retro fit the agencies that are bloated, and throw in jail any govt employee who has been grifting the system.

Was this a trick question? Or moreover, what other answer could I possibly have given you? Again, to ask this hypo evidences that you don't know what Musk is doing. Hey.....I don't care WHO does it. Give the job to Hunter, just as long as i gets done. Or, give it to Soros when Camel gets elected in 28. Did you see her latest word salad? Here it is, real short. Marauder, we REALLY dodged a bullet man.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/17/opinion/kamalas-broadway-word-salad-latest-sign-america-made-the-right-choice-in-november/

For the record, Musk is up to approximately $55B. What I want to see is when he descends on the IRS!!

@wildgrass said
Good lord Joe there's so much evidence now that DOGE hasn't a clue what they're doing. They accidentally fired the people responsible for protecting our nuclear weapons, thinking they were dispensable waste.

This is a new concept, man. Relax. Y'all seem to be Searching for stuff to mock us with. Might not be perfect such as the accident you mention. We (Musk) are spreading our wings, learning on the job, such as that. Marauder is equally confused. Rachel Maddow is not going to tell you that Musk is up to about $55B in savings right now. Have you seen the list of the waste that he has discovered? How about the $4.7T that is simply missing. Oh, you don't know about that?
Then I have made my point.

@AverageJoe1 said
Your very premise shows us that you do not understand what Musk is doing, man.
He is looking for waste, fraud and abuse. In each department, including military. Theoretically, yes, if Soros (brrrr) went to the Oval with a few generals in tow and told Kamala that the army can do, 'handle', all the military jobs which are presently in the purview of the Marines, then we ...[text shortened]... r the record, Musk is up to approximately $55B. What I want to see is when he descends on the IRS!!

I know what Musk is doing; at present he's illegally thwarting the will of our elected representatives in Congress by advising the President to not spend money already appropriated.

If he was simply looking for waste and fraud to make recommendations to Congress to save money, no one would object to that.

@AverageJoe1 said
This is a new concept, man. Relax. Y'all seem to be Searching for stuff to mock us with. Might not be perfect such as the accident you mention. We (Musk) are spreading our wings, learning on the job, such as that. Marauder is equally confused. Rachel Maddow is not going to tell you that Musk is up to about $55B in savings right now. Have you seen the list of the wast ...[text shortened]... out the $4.7T that is simply missing. Oh, you don't know about that?
Then I have made my point.

Yeah I think after spending 10 years talking Bout the legality of where Clinton's emails were stored, we could have a substantive discussion of an unelected bureaucrat downloading all the US government data onto a private server and unleashing an unsecured AI algorithm on it.

@no1marauder said
I know what Musk is doing; at present he's illegally thwarting the will of our elected representatives in Congress by advising the President to not spend money already appropriated.

If he was simply looking for waste and fraud to make recommendations to Congress to save money, no one would object to that.

Here is a challenge, and it is reasonable. You always throw the 'illegal' stuff around. Where does it say that? Contrare' , Article 2 looks pretty strong to me. But why would I argue that, it is right there in black and white. We have to stipulate this issue with Trump and Musk is not exactly what you would call 'settled law'. New territory, I guess a judge has to decide. But wait, the very judge who presided over Trump trial (a woman) just ruled in his favor on DOGE actions.
So let us assume for fun that the judge, indeed, renders a studied judge-opinion ,,,,,that he is NOT thwarting .our representatives. So, THEN what would be your position? Would you tell Wildgrass et al to back off and let Musk do his work to save us over a trillion dollars, projected?

@wildgrass said
Yeah I think after spending 10 years talking Bout the legality of where Clinton's emails were stored, we could have a substantive discussion of an unelected bureaucrat downloading all the US government data onto a private server and unleashing an unsecured AI algorithm on it.

Yeah, let me go revisit that. I am TRYING my best to be like you and Sonhouse.

@wildgrass said
Yeah I think after spending 10 years talking Bout the legality of where Clinton's emails were stored, we could have a substantive discussion of an unelected bureaucrat downloading all the US government data onto a private server and unleashing an unsecured AI algorithm on it.

"Yeah I think after spending 10 years talking Bout the legality of where Clinton's emails were stored,"

its not over bud

@Mott-The-Hoople said
"Yeah I think after spending 10 years talking Bout the legality of where Clinton's emails were stored,"

its not over bud

Did I imply it was?

@Mott-The-Hoople said
https://www.congress.gov/bill/104th-congress/senate-bill/4

Found unconstitutional by the SCOTUS in 1998. Clinton v. City of New York, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/524/417/

@AThousandYoung said
As long as the government is using force to protect absentee landlords' property rights it has a responsibility to make sure people can afford to pay the rent.

Interesting notion.
What makes you think that?

@AverageJoe1 said
Well, yes, I think Trump knows what he is doing. If Zelensky not invited, it is part of his reasoning. I think you are concerned that Zelensky was offeennnnnddeed?

Hope you do not mind my use of the phrase kicked ass, it means diff things to dff people. Just Trump's existence is kick-ass to me.

You are a sick man, with no hope of recovery.

@Cliff-Mashburn said
Interesting notion.
What makes you think that?

Have you ever been a real, feeling human being?

@Mott-The-Hoople said
"Yeah I think after spending 10 years talking Bout the legality of where Clinton's emails were stored,"

its not over bud

Republicans have never minded wasting their time with their own fantasies.

@AverageJoe1 said
Here is a challenge, and it is reasonable. You always throw the 'illegal' stuff around. Where does it say that? Contrare' , Article 2 looks pretty strong to me. But why would I argue that, it is right there in black and white. We have to stipulate this issue with Trump and Musk is not exactly what you would call 'settled law'. New territory, I guess a judge has to ...[text shortened]... Wildgrass et al to back off and let Musk do his work to save us over a trillion dollars, projected?

Maybe Article 2 should have laid it out a little more clearly that even the president cannot willfully commit treason.

@AverageJoe1 said
Hey, regarding the link you sent that the reports are false about SS checks? I jst saw Miranda Devine report that checks are on auto pilot, they go out every month to the 200-yr old people. So, someone is getting our money.

Miranda Devine, whoever that is, never read the Social Security website:

"Effective September 2015, the Social Security Administration (SSA) implemented an automated process in which the Regular Transcript Attainment and Selection Pass (RETAP) application selects records for which the Title II beneficiary is:
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Age 115 or older;
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In any current continuous suspense for seven years or more; and
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Entitled on a record where there are no other beneficiaries in a non-terminated status younger than the age of 115.

The Title II Redesign (T2R) system automatically selects and terminates entitlement to beneficiaries meeting the criteria in this section on a monthly basis using Ledger Account File (LAF) T9 and Reason for Suspension or Termination (RFST) of AGETRM.

For more information on this automated process, see SM 03020.380B.

NOTE:T2R does not issue a notice or payments for the T9 AGETRM termination action. In addition, T2R places Medicare for these beneficiaries in an inactive status."

https://archive.ph/FGreF#selection-223.0-303.169

Do dimwits like Ms. Levine ever retract their ignorant, lazy claims?