I have a security clearance from the government, there is a background check and series of questions you must answer. One of them is if you have used any illegal drugs. Elon has previously and openly posted about his use of illegal drugs. This should have resulted in a denial of a security clearance. The public has every right to challenge and now to ask that his clearance be revoked.
They are not really interested in cutting wasteful spending. Their goal is to destroy our democracy. Trump his enablers and his family have used our tax payments as their piggy bank
Nobody is against efforts to stop fraud, waste, and abuse. DOGE isn’t doing that—at all. What we’re against is gutting 85% of USAID without a real review of staff and programs (many good), cancelling medical research for no good reason, firing all probationary employees without regard to performance, gutting VA staff, and so on. Cutting without any real thought or process isn’t efficient. It’s stupid and wasteful. Clinton and Gore trimmed staff and programs surgically and got us to a balanced budget without hurting people needlessly and gutting services. Musk and Trump want to destroy government, not make it more efficient. Trump also fired most of the Inspectors General—the actual auditors and watchdogs. Trump is corruption personified.
Reinventing Government was a Clinton-Gore initiative having nothing to do with Gingrich. In any case, they used a smart, deliberate process to identify and eliminate unnecessary and redundant programs, to trim staff through attrition and other methods that weren’t deliberately cruel to affected staff, and they worked with Gingrich and Congress to legally trim programs and funding rather than unilaterally and illegally ordering the shuttering of programs and firing or staff. The point is that Clinton/Gore used a deliberate and legal process in determining cuts and making them, so they achieved the changes efficiently and with the least pain and disruption. Trump/Musk are doing the opposite-using a machete and causing great harm and disruption for no good reason, which is the opposite of efficiency.
Exactly! I agree with you totally 💯%. I m even willing to argue about this department should be cut 68% but this one only 22% — after an audit by professionals.
We already know which departments are what percentage of the budget, and which ones seem to have problems coming up with an audit (Defense is the big one, and I’m in favor of stout defense).
REVOCATION OF SECURITY CLEARANCE
I have a security clearance from the government, there is a background check and series of questions you must answer. One of them is if you have used any illegal drugs. Elon has previously and openly posted about his use of illegal drugs. This should have resulted in a denial of a security clearance. The public has every right to challenge and now to ask that his clearance be revoked.
PASS THE WORD, START THE MOVEMENT
Muskrats.
They are not really interested in cutting wasteful spending. Their goal is to destroy our democracy. Trump his enablers and his family have used our tax payments as their piggy bank
Can I balance your checkbook, remember you can’t look after I am done.
Who knew there were so many great cartoonists?! Thanks…
Yeah, Greg has his finger on the pulse
such lame TDS drivel. these cartoonist need more light and oxygen.
Damn, Greg, you are doing all my homework for me
Beyond a shadow of a doubt you have the best site on the web, by far
Dearly love the political cartoons
Your musical history is quite similar to mine
Gracias, Mi Amigo
Both of them along with those that stood by and did nothing!
Both the left and the right believe in cutting waste. The difference is in the approach: the scalpel vs the wrecking ball.
Nobody is against efforts to stop fraud, waste, and abuse. DOGE isn’t doing that—at all. What we’re against is gutting 85% of USAID without a real review of staff and programs (many good), cancelling medical research for no good reason, firing all probationary employees without regard to performance, gutting VA staff, and so on. Cutting without any real thought or process isn’t efficient. It’s stupid and wasteful. Clinton and Gore trimmed staff and programs surgically and got us to a balanced budget without hurting people needlessly and gutting services. Musk and Trump want to destroy government, not make it more efficient. Trump also fired most of the Inspectors General—the actual auditors and watchdogs. Trump is corruption personified.
Reinventing Government was a Clinton-Gore initiative having nothing to do with Gingrich. In any case, they used a smart, deliberate process to identify and eliminate unnecessary and redundant programs, to trim staff through attrition and other methods that weren’t deliberately cruel to affected staff, and they worked with Gingrich and Congress to legally trim programs and funding rather than unilaterally and illegally ordering the shuttering of programs and firing or staff. The point is that Clinton/Gore used a deliberate and legal process in determining cuts and making them, so they achieved the changes efficiently and with the least pain and disruption. Trump/Musk are doing the opposite-using a machete and causing great harm and disruption for no good reason, which is the opposite of efficiency.
What are the largest sources of the debt.
The Bush and Trump tax cuts for the rich.
Exactly! I agree with you totally 💯%. I m even willing to argue about this department should be cut 68% but this one only 22% — after an audit by professionals.
We already know which departments are what percentage of the budget, and which ones seem to have problems coming up with an audit (Defense is the big one, and I’m in favor of stout defense).