Elon Musk is not an auditor, or an economist, or an accountant, or anyone qualified to look into complicated payment systems and financial records in order to identify "fraud and waste".
None of the people he brought with him are any of those things either. They are hackers and software engineers.
So stop defending his criminal invasion of America's information with the "He's performing an audit" bullshit. Real audits take time and expertise.
Musk and his Minions are looting these federal agencies, stealing data, and tampering with their systems.
Truth, the second.
Federal worker salaries and benefits make up about 8% of the federal budget. DOGE and Trump could fire every single one and not make a dent in the annual deficit and the debt. (Of course, they're not actually doing it for efficiency or to save money but to consolidate their power).
If you really want to reduce the deficit, you need to do one of three things.
1) Cut Social Security/Medicaid/Medicare. This would devastate tens of millions of Americans who depend on these entitlements to survive. This would be highly immoral, so of course that's why MAGA wants to do it.
2) Cut the military budget. Transitioning away from being the biggest military on the planet by many times would not only save us money, but would likely reduce tensions all around the world. Unfortunately, this is a pipe dream.
3) Tax the rich. This is the clear answer. It's easy, there are no downsides, and it would happen fast. The rich would still be fine and we'd have money not only to pay down the debt, but to fund programs that would help all Americans. Having billionaires is immoral in a world where people starve and have no home.
So let's stop pretending that what DOGE is doing will help with the deficit. It's a lie, like everything else Trump and President Musk are doing.
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I sometimes wish I could make a time machine. Find their dads or grandfathers and you know....
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