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#461
Mar 25 2025 07:09am
Quote (SkySwallower @ Mar 25 2025 05:20am)
The 80k was the one example one of you DOGE fanboys could provide, I am well aware that 80k is basically nothing. If it is so easy to find huge savings of wasteful spends on the DOGE Website, provide a single link? I tried and didn't find one, and instead of just providing a link all you do is claiming I need to look harder instead of just linking something.

I really do not understand your second point. I also hated how the Biden administration supported Israel, and Biden was clearly too old to run for president. I also dislike a lot of things my local politicians do, even the ones I voted for. I just call out shit when I see it, and that was clearly a career ending mistake a few weeks into the job from Hegseth. If you can't see that you are either being misinformed or voluntarily ignorant.


Biden texted me his military plans yet he didn't resign.
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#462
Mar 25 2025 07:12am
Quote (SkySwallower @ Mar 25 2025 08:53am)
I can navigate the website just fine, can you? I am asking for the 10th time by now for a concrete example of something that was cut that:

1. Had a lot of money
2. Was wasted in your opinion

That should be incredibly easy if you think DOGE is doing good work and I still didn't get a single (literally none) link. What's going on?


You're being dense. Before the tracker had itemized and specifically named cuts. For example, USAID had hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for various DEI initiatives all over the globe. The tracker now has been updated to simply say it was grant issued by USAID.

You can google all of these examples that were cited and publicly scoffed at, you really need your hand held little guy?
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#463
Mar 25 2025 07:17am
Quote (SkySwallower @ Mar 25 2025 07:53am)
I can navigate the website just fine, can you? I am asking for the 10th time by now for a concrete example of something that was cut that:

1. Had a lot of money
2. Was wasted in your opinion

That should be incredibly easy if you think DOGE is doing good work and I still didn't get a single (literally none) link. What's going on?


We can only cite the source, it is up to you to check and understand it. My first post about this, probably a day ago addresses your question you keep asking.

"DOGE for example, their website contains a ledger of the individual publications on gross mis-use of government funds and other measures being taken to restore order to the FEDs purse. Also summary savings, breakdown per tax payer, breakdown by government department."

To be concise, all examples posted.

Now tell me where DOGE has gone to far in terms of harm to tax payer?

Department of Education has been the hot topic in news media. Those underfunded rural schools did well in the last three decades with a six hundred percent increase in four day week while this departments budgets ballooned.



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Mar 25 2025 07:59am
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You're being dense. Before the tracker had itemized and specifically named cuts. For example, USAID had hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for various DEI initiatives all over the globe. The tracker now has been updated to simply say it was grant issued by USAID.

You can google all of these examples that were cited and publicly scoffed at, you really need your hand held little guy?


Still no links, I think we are at post 20 of you guys saying it would be super easy to find stuff instead of providing a link.

Here is an example of lies and errors: https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/02/19/here-are-the-biggest-doge-hoaxes-and-inaccuracies-as-8-million-canceled-ice-contract-listed-at-8-billion/ your turn?
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Mar 25 2025 08:19am
Quote (SkySwallower @ Mar 25 2025 09:59am)
Still no links, I think we are at post 20 of you guys saying it would be super easy to find stuff instead of providing a link.

Here is an example of lies and errors: https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/02/19/here-are-the-biggest-doge-hoaxes-and-inaccuracies-as-8-million-canceled-ice-contract-listed-at-8-billion/ your turn?


First page on google. We're adults here, no one is here to hand hold you.


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$1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
$70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
$2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
$47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia


https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/02/at-usaid-waste-and-abuse-runs-deep/#:~:text=%241.5%20million%20to%20%E2%80%9Cadvance%20diversity,a%20%E2%80%9Ctransgender%20opera%E2%80%9D%20in%20Colombia
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#466
Mar 25 2025 08:31am
Imagine having to verify a source from a physical library book. Too much to ask of some.
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#467
Mar 25 2025 08:37am
Funnily enough two of your examples were not financed by USAID, although I agree that those two (the musical and the opera) are nonsense to fund - but they are also very, very little money.

The other two are more debatable, and I am aware that the nuances of DEI are too much for the common jspler to understand so fair enough, you would not want to spend that money and DOGE did cut the grants.

But that is not some genius auditing way of finding waste - they cut basically all USAID programs and you do not like USAID. It might be smart to think about if you disliked foreign aid and soft power half a year ago and if you didn't, what changed?

Quote (RedFromWinter @ Mar 25 2025 03:31pm)
Imagine having to verify a source from a physical library book. Too much to ask of some.


I have been in a physical library daily for most of my masters degree, what about you?

This post was edited by SkySwallower on Mar 25 2025 08:38am
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#468
Mar 25 2025 09:20am
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I have been in a physical library daily for most of my masters degree, what about you?


You still working on masters with that join date?
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#469
Mar 25 2025 09:27am
Quote (SkySwallower @ Mar 25 2025 08:53am)
I am asking for the 10th time by now for a concrete example of something that was cut that:

1. Had a lot of money
2. Was wasted in your opinion



Well if you're asking for examples that "weren't" the DEMs... you may have to wait a while. ^^

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#470
Mar 25 2025 10:51am
DEI hire doing wonders already :P

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