I'd like to see a Wall of Waste now, please. Something that shows all the increase expenditures due to Musk's idiotic thrashing around. It should include things like expenses from trying to track down and rehire people they shouldn't have fired and effective losses from contracts that they cancelled that were already paid in full which, since they were canceled, they will now never be completed by the contractor.
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Really wondering when they start blatantly wasting money renegotiating those already paid in full contracts that were cancelled to give out more money to people who’ve donated to them for jobs they were already paid to do.
My wage would have gone to no less than 10k and hour to return to the critical job they fired me from on top of the severance I was owed. It would be expensive to get me back, and very public.
The irony of wanting to be "bean counters" to trim corruption and waste in our government, and then have nobody on staff that can audit/track/compute anything. And I know their real goal is just to hamstring the government so nobody is left to prevent them taking everything, and/or selling it off to someone like Putin or Netanyahu. It is just the weirdest coup I think the world has ever seen.
Edit - oh autocorrect (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
The list also needs to include and track the amount of money spent on lawsuits from fired employees and contractors/departments/states whose contracts were cancelled.
This is finances 101 from Wall Street. Show short term cost reduction which makes the shareholders giddy despite the reductions causing long term and secondary losses. And just like the institutional shareholders, the orange and nazi buffoons and their lackeys are in cahoots lining their pockets through self interest dealings while the public will be covering the eventual losses through their taxes.
Excellent point.
discrepancies is an incredibly charitable interpretation of events.
I'd prefer to call it lies.
Rich white people possibly lying in our faces, no way!
Bureaucracy, when properly implemented, can be quite efficient. They don’t want to admit that to undo bureaucracy, they need more bureaucracy, so these doofuses are taking the MBA approach and showing us how bad a 3rd party tech bro audit actually is.
If this is the quality of work they present simply summarizing their actions, these people should be nowhere near any of our governmental systems at all. Utterly incompetent jackasses.
They're not incompetent, they're malicious. They're intentionally trying to fuck the country over.
I think that ship has sailed.
The country has been quite comprehensively fucked over at this point.
This is why Elon can't create a successful accounting firm
The bottom line on this is they could make it all up and we wouldn’t know the difference. There’s no real way to fact check this info.
I mean for me personally yeah but it definitely seems like people/organizations are finding a way to fact check the crap out of this. The top five biggest contracts on their previous iteration of this have all been removed or heavily revised because they were called out for being inaccurate and they capitulated. I've already seen reports showing the same thing with a lot of the new ones.
It seems like their new strategy is just to not list the biggest savers and just talk about it because the wall of receipts no longer comes close to the value saved they were claiming.
The buck doesn't start and stop inside the treasury. Most of this money was going somewhere, and people can fact check things like the actual terms of government contracts, past expenditures, congressional budgets, etc.
The real problem - as is always the case in this Age of Disinformation - is that the process of verifying facts takes time, while the process of producing lies is instant and constant.
Post-truth world. A lie goes around the world before the truth can get its shoes on. People have been killed because of a whatsapp or telegram message gone viral.
We should have recognized this shit for what it was as soon as viral became a good thing.
They love telling us 2+2=5. Some of us love accepting that.
2+2 =65 billion in this case apparently. See, if you round 2 to 63 billion and then mistake the other 2 for 2 billion, black trans migrants are the reason.
Looks like Trump licking Elon's toes made him laugh and he fat-fingered some numbers.
It would be pretty funny if, in the end, we just have a report stating that the state is actually pretty efficient.