Possibly. However our elected officials were never going to clean up spending as a lot of them are being financially benefitted by the federal bureaucracy. I’m a bit amazed we’ve never had an audit by a non governmental entity of federal government spending. This is much needed imo. Guess the proof of whether it’s beneficial or not will be the results of what is uncovered
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Will you still feel the same way if hundreds of billions of dollars of waste and fraud are discovered ?
Not if they are offset by hundreds of billions of dollars of good expenditures that are eliminated as well. You are not considering the other side of the coin. And I don't think they will find that much waste that they can eliminate without bad consequences that they ignore or are not aware of.
I’ve been against new spending initiatives for the better part of the last 20 years. That doesn’t change based on whose in the White House
What? We are not talking bout new spending initiatives, we are talking about expenditures that have been there for years, decades, etc., and are being eliminated. Some should be, and some should not. What does that have to do with new expenditures? I am referring to them eliminating an expenditure that has other consequences than what they think there are. Or those that they are against because it is against their interests or their belief system, or their constituents belief system.(Maga) Many expenses are good expense no matter what they think or what their interests are. That doesn't stop them from eliminating them.
Ahhh Misread your post. My apologies.
The pattern on unaccountability is what is troublesome. Why are we giving a rich country with a surplus $150M a year? It’s not the amount it’s the pattern. Who is responsible ? Who is accountable ?
If you won’t fix your major expenditures, eliminating small expenditures will have zero impact regardless of if they are frugal or wasteful. I hate Dave Ramsey, but this is the point he would tell people to sell the car with the astronomical monthly payment before cancelling their Hulu subscription.
Who cares? You’re blocking and tackling wastefulness in the wrong order. Get your priorities straight.
EditedInteractions like this make me think that Elon and his ‘crack team’ are completely unqualified for this task. Yes. The government uses SQL for the vast majority of its databases. Based upon his ignorant statements, he’s not even familiar with the fundamentals of databases interaction which is extremely concerning for someone overseeing a review of vast government databases. Moreover, he’s not properly digesting whatever information (be it good or bad) that his team is telling him about the records…
Maybe he’s trying to say that his team all knows something like COBOL? Which I highly doubt.
I’m not buying this. A comprehensive audit with a full audit teams could have easily taken place in most of these areas in the period of 1-2 years using standard audit tools. Audits aren’t done because members of both parties financially benefit from wasteful spending. There is zero incentive for either party to clean up the money train.
Even if you are right, we would still need several auditing teams, not Doge's single auditing team of 25 young auditors. We would probably need 15 to 20 auditing teams of 15 to 20 auditors on each team.(3 to 400 auditors with senior management at minimum) to even approach what you are talking about. But I doubt that would be enough to accomplish it in 2 years.
I know exactly where the money is spent. If they don’t spend extensive time auditing SS, Medicare, Military, etc…then this entire DOGE is simply for show.
I made a major mistake, and misread something I researched on the internet. But even with this major mistake it doesn't change the situation. I misread our deficit to be $4.9T when it was 2T. It only changes that mega savings on nickel and dime agencies to .25% as opposed .1 %. Still not the savings we need to do any damage to our deficit.
There’s zero doubt we have to tackle the big spending items AND increase tax revenue to right our fiscal situation. Curious to see if we can make any significant spending reductions over the next two years.
Our congressman will need to be heavily involved in whether to make these cuts. After all they decide on a lot of appropriations and resolutions over these cuts that Doge identifies as 'beneficial' in order to get them passed in budgetary bills. That is unless Trump tries to skirt this in working around the system of checks and balances. (Which he probably will.) And as of now, Doge is only involved with nickel and dime agencies because it makes a big splash in the news, cuts things they want philosophically, but does nothing significant to our budget. I doubt that they will get seriously into big line items.
Based on decades and decades of history, Congress will never make spending cuts which significantly improve our fiscal position. Cuts don’t financially benefit them nor do they garner votes. One reason why current expenditures are approaching $7T a year.
