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re: DOGE savings claims could come back to bite them in the arse
Posted on 2/18/25 at 2:51 pm to Ag Zwin
Posted on 2/18/25 at 2:51 pm to Ag Zwin
If it saves only one tax payer dollar it’s worth it. Tax payer money should require the most accountability and every cent should be tracked, verified it was used, used properly, and received by the correct person/organization/program
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Posted on 2/18/25 at 2:52 pm to Ag Zwin
"Not to Exceed" has meant "spend it or lose it" for our government for decades.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 2:53 pm to Jumbo_Gumbo
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If it saves only one tax payer dollar it’s worth it.
How much money should be spent to save that dollar and it still be worth it? If we spend 14 million on doge and save $1 is that a good program?
Posted on 2/18/25 at 2:53 pm to oklahogjr
quote:Those are two peas in the same pod. It's hard to avoid the collateral damage regardless of intent.
cleans up the government or ... sticking it to the libs.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 2:55 pm to Ag Zwin
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When you dig into some of them, though, the values seem to come from what looks like a “not to exceed” contract value. It is unclear how many (if any) ever come close to these amounts, and a couple that I have looked up seem to show actual awards that are a small fraction of that.
i assume they have historical data regarding cleared checks no?
Posted on 2/18/25 at 3:01 pm to Ag Zwin
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You think they can’t or won’t change them back if stuff like this turns out to look like a farce?
It has not even really begun yet. DoD and the Pentagon.Treasury and S.S. just begining. State Dept, Education Dept, Energy Dept etc.. But hey...
The Dims and msm are screaming because its all a farce and they win in 28.
Signed
Ag
Posted on 2/18/25 at 3:04 pm to Ag Zwin
i am not going to be able to find it, but I remember reading that the policy has long been that hen an agency is assigned a maximum budget figure that the agency must spend it all.
The current Administration is taking the position that that is not the case. Only use what is needed and anything left over is not spent or "returned" to the Treasury.
The current Administration is taking the position that that is not the case. Only use what is needed and anything left over is not spent or "returned" to the Treasury.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 3:09 pm to oklahogjr
Cool but you and your party made 90% of this mess and is actively fighting all efforts to rein in waste and outright theft. You don’t get to fricking chirp about the manner in which it gets fixed… at least not without looking like a massive douche.
Perhaps that ship has sailed.
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oklahogjr
Perhaps that ship has sailed.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 3:11 pm to Ag Zwin
You should probably read what DOGE puts out vs what people claim DOGE is saying. They are not the same thing.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 3:12 pm to JimEverett
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the policy has long been that hen an agency is assigned a maximum budget figure that the agency must spend it all.
Correct. Well, moreso if they don't spend their full budgeted allowance, the amount doesn't roll into their next year's budget. So, the lose that money, so of course it gets spent one way or another, thus my hammer reference earlier. That is exactly what happened.
Fairly common budgetary practice honestly, especially with your utility companies. Leads to lots of stuff like that. At an old company, we had a Southern Company rep actually tell us we needed to go back and quote them higher on a project for that very reason.
This post was edited on 2/18/25 at 3:13 pm
Posted on 2/18/25 at 3:12 pm to Ag Zwin
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Well, you can take comfort in “owning the libs”, or you can concentrate on winning the persuadable middle that won the election for Trump.
Again. Your concern is noted. Trump is not running again.
This post was edited on 2/18/25 at 3:16 pm
Posted on 2/18/25 at 3:12 pm to Ag Zwin
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you can concentrate on winning the persuadable middle
If saving hundreds of billions of dollars isn't enough to persuade the "middle" folks then they were never in the middle to begin with.
Anyway you look at it...hundreds of billions will be saved.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 3:13 pm to Ag Zwin
Not sure I'm following. If you're talking about the "agreement" with Culturepoint, LLC, $9,999,999 is how much they are authorized to pay Culturepoint. So if they terminate this agreement, those payments will never leave the door, which is future savings. Second of all, how did they come up with $9,999,999 when making that arrangement. I'd love to see that scope of work. And this looks like some sort of professional services contract for DEIA educating/training for the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI) within CFPB. Wtf is all that noise? Why is there a OMWI, what kind of arbitrary number is $9,999,999, and for DEIA training? The whole thing is bullshite.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 3:13 pm to oklahogjr
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Plus Elon already said he's not been accurate in his statements and that it's not a big deal.
What is the exact Elon quote?
Posted on 2/18/25 at 3:16 pm to BBONDS25
Don’t bother with this prog.
They are incapable of telling the truth
They are incapable of telling the truth
Posted on 2/18/25 at 3:16 pm to Vacherie Saint
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Cool but you and your party made 90% of this mess and is actively fighting all efforts to rein in waste and outright theft.
Huh? Explain how libertarians did this? And how they're fighting it? Hell JoJo even came out and said good for maga cleaning up the mess.
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You don’t get to fricking chirp about the manner in which it gets fixed…
Well when the efforts look as disorganized as this there's bound to be some questions....
Posted on 2/18/25 at 3:18 pm to BBONDS25
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What is the exact Elon quote?
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Some of the things that I say will be incorrect and should be corrected,” Musk said. “Nobody’s going to bat 1,000. We will make mistakes, but we’ll act quickly to correct any mistakes.”
Posted on 2/18/25 at 3:18 pm to oklahogjr
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Explain how libertarians did this
Posted on 2/18/25 at 3:20 pm to oklahogjr
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Some of the things that I say will be incorrect and should be corrected,” Musk said. “Nobody’s going to bat 1,000. We will make mistakes, but we’ll act quickly to correct any mistakes.”
This is a far cry from:
“Elon has already said he has been inaccurate in his statements”
Idiot.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 3:20 pm to oklahogjr
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There arent many posters on here who really care if he cleans up the government or not. They mostly just care about sticking it to the libs.
wrong - wrong - as usual
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