Thank god I don’t work for the federal government
Make sure the chainsaw is lubed and full of gas on J20.
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BTC > DOGE despite what Buck’s day trading tips may say.
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At least one TugTard should be contacting a headhunter tomorrow.
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Per Vivek own guidance it should be a task force and not a department.
Departments last forever and twist their original intent.
DOE, ATF, the other Department of Ed, etc.
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@GrundleStiltzkin sighted!
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Huh?
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"It became necessary to fill the swamp in order to drain it." — D. J. Trump, probably
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One week in and you're all ready to surrender
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Best we don’t even try I guess.
This was front and center on Vivek’s pitch and what gave him a name. If he can’t deliver here then that might be it for him. No one can honestly say what is the right number of Federal employees. Test and learn. Over cut and then backfill where you went too far. It’s akin to testing diminishing returns on advertising spend. You want to find where the flat part on the curve is. If you can’t find that flat part than keep spending until you do, it might be further out than you think.
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I'm 100% about that.
But he literally said it needs to be a task force so it doesn't end up like the department of education.
Can't wait for the dems to be in charge of DOGE and use it to raid homes still using gas stoves instead of electric in 2036.
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Are we sure it won't be a task force? I've heard both
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Trump loves names so maybe they just wanted the acronym.
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Yes Trump is careless with language
It's nothing until it's something
And gas stoves Washington voters agreed to the state taking their gas appliances
Retards
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Get your chainsaws ready.
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I'll believe it when I see it.
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They need to save on gas for their “therapy” chambers.
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What I would attack first is all of the money that is going from state department to all of the NGO’s that are actively working against the will of the people. All of the state sponsored censorship panels, Atlantic Council, all of the environmental NGO’s that take tax payer money and use that money to sue the government or business. Gut every penny there.
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DOJ may want to sniff around a few of the larger “immigration” NGOs to see how much human trafficking there is at present, and whether all of it is legal. There have been complaints so it wouldn’t be without merit.
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They've said they have an end date etc. I'm pretty satisfied with what's been put out so far.
Ron Paul’s point is valid "It doesn't matter if they are efficient or not if the government shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
LIPO, best shot we've had in my lifetime to see meaningful shrinkage of government.
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Fuck. I got pulled back into the Tug.
But at the brothel, I’m in charge of process improvement efforts and modernizing our systems…so this topic is my jam!
I’m both excited and terrified of this task force/department. As @GrundleStiltzkin and @UW_Doog_Bot have alluded to, it definitely has the potential for becoming yet another government bureaucracy.
I’m also concerned that they’ll cut muscle instead of fat.
Few random things going through my head:In terms of headcount, the federal government size has remained relatively flat for a while, which is interesting when you consider that population growth of the United States in the past few decades. (State and local governments have grown by quite a bit to compensate I suppose, but I those are inefficient as fuck too.)
There’s also going to be a wave of these employees retiring soon, as the average age of most federal employees is pushing 50…and it doesn’t seem like there’s a big push to backfill some of these roles. (The youngsters have little interest in working for Uncle Sam, when our best and brightest can make a lot more money developing some new app for FAANG.)
So are these two just going to do mass layoffs, or really take a look at how all these agencies are run? What does success look like?
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The fact is that the federal government has used contractors and NGOs to leverage federal employees. The real issue is what are the leveraged federal employees accomplishing. Education is a minus return on investment. The EPA is focused on CO2 a non-pollutant and pushing further clean air and water proposals with massive costs and minimal benefits. Our entire Department of Homeland Security is dedicated to importing illegals and then paying tens of billions to support them. Another negative return on investment. Cutting out huge chunks of these departments is not cutting muscle.
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Bi partisan
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Trump reuniting America already
@Doog_de_Jour on the tug
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Or even just putting it into a trailer instead of on the ground at the end of the chain. I assume another crew has to pick it all up again to remove it from the location. Totally inefficient.
It’s laughable that anyone in the government thought putting out that video was a good idea.
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I agree with some of your points. But these are low hanging fruits in terms of our overall government, and I don’t want to see DOGE’s work STOp at reforming departments that are Democratic Party darlings.
In short, everything needs to be overhauled.
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I didn't/don't disagree with any of that. OSHA on the move to keep rural America
safeunionized. Our federal bureaucracy is orientated to demanding union employees and assumes and unlimited budget. As it is volunteer rural fire departments are already having trouble attracting young volunteers.https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/11/14/new-osha-emergency-response-standards-could-shutter-80-of-volunteer-fire-departments-n4934276
New OSHA Emergency Response Standards Could Shutter 80% of Volunteer Fire DepartmentsRick Moran | 9:54 AM on November 14, 2024
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is seeking final approval for a massive overhaul of the "Fire Brigade Standard" that's been in place for 50 years. The 608 pages of new rules, quite simply, would mean that about 80% of volunteer fire departments in the United States would be forced to cease operations.
“Over 85 percent of America’s fire departments are either volunteer or mostly volunteer. Nearly 700,000 of America’s 1,056,000 firefighters are volunteers or paid per call firefighters,” a group of lawmakers, led by Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Christopher Coons (D-Del.) said in a statement. “The proposed rule would apply to more workers than the existing standard and would require fire departments to furnish new reports, trainings, equipment, and health services.”
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Department of Defense can be both leaner and meaner
Lots of waste there. Too much incest between manufacturers and buyers
meanwhile we are less prepared to fight
I do believe this will be a major effort and it will get gop blowback
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MIC lobbyists don’t have any sort of relationship or history with Hegseth, so apparently that upsets the DC slush fund funded by people like you and me.
We really need another former Raytheon/Blackrock board member running the show because that’s how it is run these days … say retarded “experts” on Democrat/UniParty television shows who still can’t grasp why Trump was elected.
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That’s kinda what I was getting at. Will DOGE be as ruthless with the “untouchable” parts (at least, in the eyes of traditional, read: corrupt, politicians) of the federal government like DoD and Social Security?
BTW, I’m NOT saying gut the military - don’t twist - if anything you should be beefing up our security given what’s going on in the world right now…but the fact that many of our service people (TYFYS) need to pay for their own basic shit out of pocket (like teachers) shows how messed up the system is. I would assume, like DOE, that there’s lots of fat cat administrators that aren’t adding any real value.Oh, and speaking of DoD, I hope Musk lets other DOGE people handle that…even if it’s not a direct conflict of interest, given his SpaceX company, the appearance of it is there, which is concerning.
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Lots of things are concerning. Musk being honest and looking out for the country's interest isn't one of them. He lost billions buying Twitter and had the dems deep state start investigating him on all fronts and all just to provide an honest social media platform. SpaceX is killing Boeing's Starliner and Bezos's Blue Origin and yet they are getting much larger amounts of government revenue for stuff that doesn't work. Pence was concerned about a potential conflict of interest which didn't exist. How did that work out? No matter what or how Musk and Vivek do what they will do the left will be howling like Mad Dogs versus actually dealing with the real issue. Look at how they reacted to basic attempts to insure an honest national voting mechanism for federal elections.
