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The DOGE Brothers Meet the Swamp

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Posted By: DW626, 12/31/2024 8:44:10 AM

We are coming into a New Year with a lot of excitement of feeling regarding a change of governing philosophy, from one of grotesque and profligate federal spending to one of rational cost cutting headed by the “DOGE Brothers.” The hope is that the nation will find its way out of having a federal government that acts, as it has for our lifetimes, as an abyss of plunder, and becomes instead a guardian of our property and liberty, as it should always be.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: seamusm 12/31/2024 9:03:46 AM (No. 1864046)
DOGE will only succeed if the process includes wholesale elimination and defunding of multiple federal departments. Because civil service protections won't help someone keep a job that no longer exists.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: EJKrausJr 12/31/2024 9:33:30 AM (No. 1864063)
Godspeed to Elon and Vivek. They will need it. They are about to enter bureaucratic high headwinds and violent seas. Complete with bureaucratic sea monsters. Begin with the immediate dissolution of the Department of Education, as the DOE doesn't educate anyone. Make every bureaucrat within the Executive Branch identify what they do, inputs to them, their outputs from what they do, the controls they are subject to, IOWs the old fashioned Six Sigma process using modern software. Redundant processes should be identified. Redundant jobs and workers by default. Make the entire Government a Six Sigma Government.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Gallo3 12/31/2024 12:09:06 PM (No. 1864183)
How about the 1.1 Trillion spent per year on the failed and botched Great Society/War On Poverty scams? The Community Action Programs which administer useless programs like Head Start- Bootcamp For The Welfare State. A gigantic babysitting service which takes care of the pre-school kids during the day and enables the welfare slugs to ride the limos to the casinos during the day. And every one of those thousands of local CAP programs has a war chest of millions in cash salted away to weather four years of cuts by Trump and the DOGE.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: mifla 1/1/2025 4:21:02 AM (No. 1864502)
The DC lawyers are already designing their new vacation homes.
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