Reference please! To my knowledge DOGE has not uncovered any obvious cases of financial fraud. Every example of their cost-cutting that I've looked at (and I've dug!) has been lawfully congressionally appropriated funds being spent according to guidelines from the previous administration making reasonable interpretations of the congressionally passed budget. The new administration forbids spending on initiatives related to increasing diversity, equity, or inclusiveness or decreasing climate change, as well as disapproves of most kinds of foreign aid. None of this is fraud.
The only issue I have with that claim (ignoring the obvious blurring between whether it's fraud or waste), is that it's all being reported by a single party with no validation or accountability.
Because the other party is perceptively playing political games rather than being bipartisan? Or maybe the massive misinformation being played out is drowning out legitimate voices..
They claimed to discover .. yes, but they're essentially too young, dumb, and inexperienced to understand the oddities in the data .. the 100+ year old peole are a result of COBOL NULL entries for people with no birth record dates (which is a real thing in 300+ million people), etc.
Also:
DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million
The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error.
Oh my, you mean COBOL NULL entries default to 1875? This is exactly the kind of mainstream talking point that they discuss in conspiracy forums. What does it matter what the cause is, the fact is that there were issues in the system and nobody was correcting them... That said, this explanation doesn't even add up! If it was some NULL value in a date field, why then would you have entries scattered across different date brackets over 140 years old (as they were)? Wouldn't they all aggregate to the same value (e.g. 1875 or whatever it is they claim the NULL value is)? It doesn't add up even from a programmer's PoV. Leftists have to wake up. Everything they know is a lie. It doesn't mean for sure that Elon doesn't have an agenda, but people definitely deserve what's coming. The integrity of the system has been totally violated, years ago.
Hello, do you know why Bitcoin, so-called magic unicorn internet money, backed by nothing-but-thin-air and which requires the equivalent electricity of Argentina to protect its integrity is worth almost $2 trillion dollars? Do you think it means the monetary system has solid integrity? Have you been paying attention to anything for the last decade?
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million
The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error.
> Wow, some people are DEEP asleep.
You do appear to be. Maybe step away from the keyboard and stop taking what they say at face value?
> the fact is that there were issues in the system and nobody was correcting them...
You don't have much experience either, do you? How do you "fix" a citizen with no known birth date because rural 1930s, etc?
Real world data has issues. You'd know that if you had actual experience ... but you don't.
> Stop blaming the 'deplorables', it's your fault it got this bad.
Stop using AI to generate text .. none of what you've typed applies to myself or the comment I made, you're just spinning off on a tangent.
You're brainwashed. They're robbing you of essential services and you're still going "yeah, go on!!".
Notice how they only go after things the common man might benefit from? Surprisingly DOGE uncovers no waste whatsoever in the many billion dollars military contracts.
What do you think will happen to your country when the ban on medicaid takes effect? Will the millions that rely on it simply die? Do you even care or are you totally void of empathy?
It's not the government's job to take money from Paul to give to Peter. I fundamentally object to this. I take the view of Austrian economics. IMO, all the corporate monopolies we have today are caused by excessive government money printing, weaponizing the people's money against the people. How about having empathy for the worker, the value creator, who has been robbed of money and, worse, opportunities as a result of government-backed corporate monopolies and regulatory moats?
You can't imagine how bad things have been for some of us.
You are gravely mistaken. How is the extensive union-busting, deregulation, wage theft and general disregard for worker protections going to help you?
Musk and Trump's class interests are diametrically opposed to ours, the real value-creating workers. They want you to work more for less pay. Watch you and your loved ones' situations dégrade over the next few years, and reconsider your position.
