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Subject: Re: The weak kneed "doge" website
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:54:09 -0000 (UTC)
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On Feb 25, 2025 at 10:00:29 PM PST, "Pluted Pup" <plutedpup@outlook.com>
wrote:

> 
> https://doge.gov/ or Department Of Government Efficiency
> 
> is quite a useless website that doesn't really
> qualify as a public government website, as it
> is just links to X-twitter, which is a
> members-only "website", very unlike what would be
> what would be more properly called a government
> website, not a closed access web-forum, like Facebook
> or Gab.
> 
> Where is the actual intention to cut down waste?
> 
> Let us pretend that USAID, for example, gave 90 million
> dollars to support homeless shelters for trans teens in
> El Salvador and you feel that that is an example of
> government waste. But how could you actually tell whether it is
> waste or not just because the premise seems wacky? Like with
> TV and movies, premise is easy, it's what you actually do
> and not what you said you intend to do that counts.

Well, if the money was appropriated for homeless shelters for trans teens in
El Salvador and you spend it on homeless shelters for trans teens in El
Salvador, then that's prima facie waste since American taxpayers have no
business funding homeless shelters for trans teens in El Salvador.

If the money was appropriated for homeless shelters for trans teens in El
Salvador and you spent it on something else, then you've committed a crime and
should be prosecuted for theft of government resources.

Either way, it's a problem.

>  Where is
> the accounting for that 90 million dollars, what exactly was
> down with it? Given to political activists to do whatever
> they please with it, with no outside accounting?
> Where is the acknowledgement of the possibility of fraud?
> 
> And that's what I mean, if you want to stop waste you want
> to account for what has and is being done, not whether
> or not what it's earmarked for sounds "relevant". For
> no matter what it's for, if the grant money is being
> given to scam artists it is always a waste, and much
> worse.