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Subject: Re: The weak kneed "doge" website
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 04:30:45 -0500
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plutedpup@outlook.com wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 09:54:09 -0800, BTR1701 wrote:
>> "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.
>
>Even if it's for national security? What if it's a
>honey trap to arrest middle-east terrorists?

Why are you so intently trying to rationalize gubberment waste and fraud?

Does an irrational hatred of Donal Trump have anything to do with it?

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