Musk “waste spending’ charts

@AverageJoe1 said
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/doge-musk-government-waste-spending-charts-109f3bcf?st=atYDMG&reflink=article_copyURL_share

Just a go-to for reference. It still is not enough to pay off loans of poor-planning college students. I know of a ‘poor planning’ woman with five children living in the ninth ward in New Orleans, that sure would like to get some help for herself.

@AverageJoe1 said
And here the USAID employees wrote things such as ‘ we are abandoning the world.”
Now hold on here was that statement to tug at someone’s heart strings? To abandon something means that you were responsible for something and left it. So, is someone here going to tell us that we had an obligation or a duty to be responsible for the world? I am just asking here, y’all a ...[text shortened]... d message to Trump on boxes while

It is a new story with this title, I could not make it load up

I wonder what Debates would be like if we had fewer stunted brats.

Edit: I know! Something like a Fix-It forum, where the uber-clever egoists of RHP could compete to solve at least the world's practical (if not mental) problems with the waste heat from their burning brains!

@Soothfast said
Yes, the size of the federal workforce as a percentage of the population has been actually declining for the past quarter of a century at least.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/01/07/what-the-data-says-about-federal-workers/

@Kevin-Eleven said
I wonder what Debates would be like if we had fewer stunted brats.

Edit: I know! Something like a Fix-It forum, where the uber-clever egoists of RHP could compete to solve at least the world's practical (if not mental) problems with the waste heat from their burning brains!

@Kevin-Eleven said
If you are such a stunted sprout that you don't understand that some of the stronger might feel an obligation to help the weaker or less developed then I guess that's just what happens.

@AverageJoe1 said
You’ve made two good points. First, it is not realistic to think that Trump could actually accomplish every morsel of things that he said he was going to do. It would be impossible for anyone, but very natural for a strong politician, as he was during the campaign, to tell everyone his intent in that way.
So, you apply one of Trump‘s catch phrases.He says time will ...[text shortened]... s indeed scaring up all he can, turning over stones. Do you not think that this is a great endeavor?

@Kevin-Eleven said
A man who would rather mock than help is one of the most impoverished of beings.

@Kevin-Eleven said
If you are such a stunted sprout that you don't understand that some of the stronger might feel an obligation to help the weaker or less developed then I guess that's just what happens.

@spruce112358 said
You need to reply to @Soothfast, above. 😆

The size of the Federal workforce has been declining for the last 25 years, based on the population. Government has been shrinking, even as there are more people who need services like justice.

This suggests that there will not be much "waste" to be found in government because when you have to do the same or a larger job with fewer people, you have to get efficient - there is no other choice. 😆

Pick it up, Spruce. We have enough sue and sonhouse, and now the SevenEleven dude?

@AverageJoe1 said
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/doge-musk-government-waste-spending-charts-109f3bcf?st=atYDMG&reflink=article_copyURL_share

Just a go-to for reference. It still is not enough to pay off loans of poor-planning college students. I know of a ‘poor planning’ woman with five children living in the ninth ward in New Orleans, that sure would like to get some help for herself.

@wildgrass said
If we already had agencies rooting out fraud, then DOGE is a duplication of resources, which should compel the department to cut itself.

This article says that USAID spending is not a large source of waste.

So, why did doge go after the agency? Why have they ignored real sources of waste and fraud which account for orders of magnitude higher spending?

@AverageJoe1 said
'''''This article says that USAID spending is not a large source of waste.''''''

This one .,,(Wildgrass, I think,,,they are all the same) says this. I swear, ..it is verbatim.

"""This article says that USAID spending is not a large source of waste.""""

Difficult to suffer fools.

@wildgrass said
Read your article first, boss.

Arguing with MAGA:

"2+2 is 4"

"Oh yeah what about 2+3?"

"That's a different equation with a different answer."

"Oh here we go again. where'd you hear that? CNN? Lamestream media?"