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Why would such a group of people volunteer to rewrite the budget without any oversight or accountability? There's no possible benefit to themselves! They must be such giving, selfless souls!
Those who want power should never be given it, and we're about to prove why
"Most of human history has already proven why, but surely this time will be different" — idiots
We can always count on Americans to do the right thing once they have exhausted every other option.
Pretty sure mods of any internet forum or social media have proved this long ago.
It's unpaid, so only the extremely wealthy who would benefit from cutting programs can make even more money.
Are there actually people who want to volunteer for an 80 hour/week unpaid job?
Think about the kind of person who would benefit from helping to make decisions in the government department dedicated to cutting government spending. It's likely business owners and industry leads that will benefit financially from replacing the holes left in the government with their businesses.
Think NASA being replaced by SpaceX and Boeing. Or think Shell making budgetary decisions about the EPA.
These are the folks that will be working these positions. And every one of them will have a salary through the corporation they represent.
and half of them will log 80 hours a week and work 5, while paying someone else out of their own pocket to work 75.
Sure. It’s unpaid to attract people who don’t need money to survive, and bar everyone else. And it gives them some modicum of direct control and power to change things as they see fit.
Effectively, it’s a wealth filter. It works with internships, why not this ideologically-motivated nonsense?
Besides, rich people who don’t need income don’t know how to do actual work, so 80 hour weeks is probably code for “play a lot of golf and take 4 hour lunches, work drunk, whatever, just have fun with it man!”
It's not a job, it's an opportunity to rewrite laws in your favor.
Class warfare, they don't want any of us dirty working class people to join their destroy the government party.
No W2. I guess that’s one way to not officially be logged as working for something.
Get paid in Target gift cards
You heard President Musk, they’re not getting paid.
This is how you recruit fanatics to a cause. People who do things for a cause instead of a paycheck are not employees.
Obviously they are betting that they will be able to turn the position into a way to extort money from the people and corporations they would be overseeing.
A few dems are ponding joining too: https://www.axios.com/2024/12/13/donald-trump-elon-musk-doge-democrats
Conflicts of interest, definitely…
But on the other hand, I’d rather see it diversely staffed and chaired rather than Musk surrounding himself with more acolytes to egg him on.
They're trying to "voice of reason" their way through the next 4 years. Too bad the only voices these sacks are listening to are the ones up their own asshole.
Sounds like Joe's tired of licking boot at the Journal and now wants to lick boot in the White House.