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The current debt is 36T or about $100K of debt per person. Taxes will continue to increase to service the debt. Interest rates stay high and impact mortgage rates, car loans, personal credit, school loans, etc. Inflation may stay above the baseline. The government may reduce benefits, increasing costs by $500+ for citizens that would otherwise be provided by the government. Assuming 2T flat deficit is added annually for the next 15 years, the 2024 debt per person will be about $200K. You can double the impact above per citizen. For a $300K mortgage, you can expect the next generation to pay $400+ more than you would today. I expect cutting the work force to be a net economic positive as it was for Canada. Canada cut their work force by 20% in the 90s (PM Jean Chretien), helping achieve a surplus, reduced debt and interest payments, helped economic growth. Short term unemployment was mitigated by increase in private sector jobs.

Legendary economic stimulus and good will from the masses toward Republicans the 2028 election. Bad move that will spike inflation. Surplus can go nowhere but to pay down the deficit. Spending is a tax on us.

What's the fuss? I made no reference to any specific example. I said all is see is wins. Link after link of wins. I don't care if a recorded piece of information was mistaken as $8B when its actually $8M. Mistakes happen and will continue to happen given they strategically favor speed over accuracy. It will be corrected in the data if not already. Saving $8M is a win. Why did the mistake occur? Past versions of the contract listed on the Federal Procurement Data System was approved in Sept 2022 for the initial total value of $8 billion. Jan. 22 this year, that figure was updated to $8 million. Now it is cancelled. https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/jsp/viewLinkController.jsp?agencyID=7012&PIID=70CMSD22A00000008&idvAgencyID=&idvPIID=GS00F131DA&contractType=IDV The DOGE website also says These specific listed contracts account for approx. 20% of overall DOGE savings. Expect more mistakes to occur. Come celebrate the wins with 90% of the public.

The progressive left is boxing their left into a suicide dance? No! Its dead.

Ah, yes, because it clearly takes such mental fortitude to dismiss centuries of philosophical inquiry, cultural heritage, and personal solace as nothing more than a crutch for the 'weak.' Your arrogance is only surpassed by your ignorance. It's ironic that a progressive would find people with religious views mentally weak.

Always best to link the source and check yourself - https://doge.gov/savings ALLISEEISWINS

Still waiting… The Georgia mail-in vote inspection lawsuit from 2020 drags on. - Initial Ruling: In May 2021, a judge ordered Fulton County to make plans to unseal at least 142,000 mail-in ballots from the 2020 election for potential review. However, this was followed by a series of legal back-and-forths. - Dismissal and Appeals: The lawsuit faced multiple dismissals and appeals. In October 2021, Judge Brian Amero dismissed all respondents in the lawsuit, but this decision was appealed. Later, in January 2023, the Georgia Court of Appeals reinstated VoterGA's case requesting an audit of these ballots. - Ongoing Legal Battle: As of May 2024, there were reports that it had been nearly 500 days since the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that VoterGA had standing to bring the suit to see the ballots, yet no trial date had been assigned, highlighting significant delays in the legal process. - Current Status: The case is still dragging on… Why?

Delays occurred and the updated forecast is next weekend.

This is dumb. You can count on one hand how many ex and current USA presidents were teetotalers.

What a stupid game. Which party did Musk belong to when he started slinging babies around? I don't like fatherless homes at all. I do like that Musk is financially providing such that the kids have at least one full time parent.

Fair enough, Mangione is perhaps the type to give a slow clap.

Mangione would be more likely to give these guys a high five. Even crazy people are happy to see waste reduced and a focus on health.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-doge-posts-classified-192500952.html The head counts and budget for the National Reconnaissance Office were visible. This is the federal agency that designs, builds and maintains U.S. intelligence satellites. Imagine you are malicious. What is the worst you can do with this information? Based on what’s been shared publicly, no danger was introduced to the US government and citizens. Frankly this is a blessing and wake up call to address security control.

go to prison because an engineer in his department made a mistake?

It is troubling. The government is attacked all the time. My company continually pays a large burden to secure government protected information, and it is necessary. We don’t need this to occur. https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/what-we-learned-change-healthcare-cyber-attack The doge website mistake is not a surprise. What is the impact of this mistake? headcount and budget? Anything else revealed?

The question I’m wondering /s is why this made the news but other regular gov occurrences are not front page news.

“Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.” We know there are crooks. Pork. Limited transparency. Rushed omnibus bills. Insider trading. Kickbacks. Non accountable spending. Signals of fraud. Gaslighting. Lies. Spending that even idiots know is wasteful. There may not be arrests for fraud, but it’s there.

Musk’s comment went right over people’ heads. Previous discussion was about systems that predate SQL… paper based in mines, cobalt, mainframes… There is laughable discrepancy between public perception of government tech capabilities and the reality. Musk was writing game code published in magazines at age 12! He knows what SQL is. His comment was satire.

Yes, Trump is accountable for the actions of everything under his time. That is irrelevant to the the claim of this spending being wasteful. Wasteful spending has been bipartisan. The dunking is on EVERYONE who is against transparency and waste reduction. Those complaining the loudest happen to be libs. Back to the question, could there be conflict of interest?

The Thomson family and other investors own Thomson Reuters and the Reuters news agency. Could there be a conflict of interest?

100% support cutting social security in its current form, right now. Grandfather in the boomers. Draw a line in the sand. Cut it off. Deal with it. It isn't enough to survive on. Life isn't fair; least not social security. I'll pay in and get nothing later if that means one less problem for my kids. Or change it to be an investment. Ponzi schemes are criminal.

The original story suggested that the purchase of Tesla vehicles was put forth by the Trump administration to benefit Mr. Musk. E.G. Conflict of interest. Oops. This potential line item was added before Trump took office and before Musk began his role at DOGE.

Previously life long Democrat, ex student basketball manager, Outkick founder Clay Travis says "Democrats for men are pussies. There are no masculine men in the Democrat Party right now."

I don't believe the story. But I also don't care.