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DOGE overstated savings on federal 'receipts' website, auditors find (abcnews.com)
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[–] 72 points 5 days ago* (2 children)

Dear conservative republicans;

The real government waste isn't the social, research, or effective* environmental programs. It's the bloated loopholed taxcode, the MIC, the revolving doors, the thousand dollar trashcans, the no-bid contracts, the croissant-like layers of middlemen, the labyrinthine beauroccracy of means-testing that costs more than it saves, and the reluctance to directly employ and retain skilled labor for public projects.

Poor black brown and gay people aren't ruining your country. Monied interests are, and they're using you to do it. (dems also but not the subject of this post)

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  • [–] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    this needs to be addressed to the republican voters

    the republicans in office already know all this and don’t care

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago

    The amount of money that's been wasted over DOGE is likely in the trillions...

    Like, there's $5 upkeep to prevent a $5k problem.

    DOGE would cut upkeep, and if that $5 trickled thru multiple agencies they counted it everytime.

    Agency 1 pays 2, pays 3; same $5, they cancel and claim to have saved $15.

    Then be cause no upkeep was done, we gotta pay $5k to fix the problem, and if we still don't do upkeep, we'll need to pay 5k again, and again, and again

    Even once we start doing "upkeep" again, it's going to be more expensive.

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