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Ex-Trump Official Mocks Elon Musk's DOGE Task Force: It 'Isn't a Real Thing'
(www.latintimes.com)
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I work for the federal government, and there most definitely are ways to make it more efficient. However, everything I've seen from Musk and Ramaswamy only sound like ways to cut productivity while leaving spending pretty much untouched. Maybe that's what they actually want, I dunno.
All of these fools are just out to prove that "the gubment" shouldn't be doing anything but push paper, and everything should shift to privatization. Yes, meaning them and their friends. Musk is probably going to try and make Twitter the defacto messaging platform for all government entities...yes, seriously.
GOP has been pulling this shit since the 80's. Claim government wasteful spending, and shift tax dollars to their buddies or their own companies and call it "privatization". It's a scam to literally make people who live here just pay them money for doing nothing. In no way will they make anything better or save money.
Or gut government services and cry about how bad they are and that they need to be privatized
Nah, they just want to punish people who oppose them - that's why Musk called out the CFPB in particular.
Don't hold your breath for Musk to cut Tesla subsidies because they create market inequities.
Yeah, real “efficiency” would come from standardizing tools and procedures, getting rid of “shadow IT”, making annual budget requests more flexible (ie if we don’t use it this year we won’t get it next year), and empowering the workers to make more decisions and initiatives without involving committees, managers, etc.
They are not doing that. It’s not about efficiency, it’s a libertarian crusade to strip out anything valuable from the public sector and leave what’s left to rot.