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
Until it actually began, I never imagined people would be against cutting waste and fraud from the federal government. I assumed because it affected taxpayers on both sides of the aisle everybody would welcome it except the actual fraudsters. I was wrong. The cult of the left supersedes self interest in many people today.
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.
Clinton got dragged to a balanced budget by Newt Ginrich and the Contract With America from the Republican congress. He also had the peace dividend from the end of the Cold War which allowed him to cut the military by 1/3rd.
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.
Gee, I don’t know. That’s why I support auditing the government agency by agency and the budget line by line. The beginning of any financial recovery has to begin with a clear picture of where we are now.
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).
The time for the scalpel has passed. 36+ trillion in debt and a 2 trillion annual deficit requires drastic measures. With a razor thin majority the time for big moves is less than two years. The left knows this. That’s why they are pushing delaying tactics. Slow down. Take it easy. But the clock is ticking.
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
This monster MUST GO,
Both of them along with those that stood by and did nothing!
Can I balance your checkbook, remember you can’t look after I am done.
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
Until it actually began, I never imagined people would be against cutting waste and fraud from the federal government. I assumed because it affected taxpayers on both sides of the aisle everybody would welcome it except the actual fraudsters. I was wrong. The cult of the left supersedes self interest in many people today.
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.
Clinton got dragged to a balanced budget by Newt Ginrich and the Contract With America from the Republican congress. He also had the peace dividend from the end of the Cold War which allowed him to cut the military by 1/3rd.
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.
Gee, I don’t know. That’s why I support auditing the government agency by agency and the budget line by line. The beginning of any financial recovery has to begin with a clear picture of where we are now.
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).
The Bush and Trump tax cuts for the rich.
I’m not rich. Never have been. But both those tax cuts helped me and those I worked with.
Both the left and the right believe in cutting waste. The difference is in the approach: the scalpel vs the wrecking ball.
The time for the scalpel has passed. 36+ trillion in debt and a 2 trillion annual deficit requires drastic measures. With a razor thin majority the time for big moves is less than two years. The left knows this. That’s why they are pushing delaying tactics. Slow down. Take it easy. But the clock is ticking.
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