Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ubiquitous Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: The weak kneed "doge" website Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 04:30:45 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <0001HW.2D6EE57D037D4AAE305CAA38F@news.giganews.com> <0001HW.2D6FEA7203912EEA31015E38F@news.giganews.com> Injection-Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 13:40:16 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c383fa75796df5da97c939a56147dcf9"; logging-data="3267147"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/WxP6+zkhUWsBhL6LTRMqrSCIFi0GLcd4=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:KODwcJy5nefiLwC6F2rtEbYvAO4= X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.12N (x86 32bit) Bytes: 2584 plutedpup@outlook.com wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 09:54:09 -0800, BTR1701 wrote: >> "Pluted Pup" 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? -- Not a joke! Don't jump!