Posted on 02/05/2025 2:27:32 PM PST by TigerClaws
I always wished that the gov had to follow a budget like any business would. I was always told that it would never work. never quite understood why... but glad to see this! I am afraid I will have perma-grin after four years of this!
I’m curious as to how to pronounce Peter Phyrr’s last name because all choices are….unfortunate.
I want govts to have to follow GAAP and publish their stuff just like any public corporation - but at a greater level of detail allowing anyone to see where the money is going.
The one exception being a single line each for defense and intelligence - still see the number just not necessarily where the $ is specifically going. A classified version of the details would still have to be made available to Congress for proper oversight.
I want to see the Fed audited.
There are one or more Freepers who pop up once in a while to assure us that the Federal Reserve is constantly audited. And always passes with flying colors. Totally above-board. No funny business at the Fed! But I’m hoping Elon eventually gets over there to have a look at how the money flows. I think the story might change.
Where is the budget for area 51?
ZBB was one of the reasons I liked Carly Fiorina.
Coming out tax dollars paid celebrities to back Ukraine.
Angelina Jolie got $20 million.
$68 million went to the World Economic Forum.
San Fran Nancy got $90 MILLION for AIDS in San Fransisco.
NYT, Politico, Reuters, BBC - all got millions of tax dollars.
There was a recent whistleblower in UFO world—no need to go into details here—but what he said about the black budget was stunning.
He said that he was given years of training in various skills by military, intelligence agencies and private contractors (most recently used—helicopter pilot).
Then he would take a “cover” job for say—army intelligence.
It would be a boring job—but then once a month or so he would be called away for “black ops”.
They never told him in advance what the black op was or where it was or how long it would last.
His army “boss” was just told that was how it was—and to keep his mouth shut.
Getting back to the budget—that means the Army would have black operations (that may have absolutely nothing to do with the army) hidden in it and it would look like his unit had a “slacker” in the ranks and the army was wasting money.
What a mess.
I worked for a large city in their “Sign Ordinance Department” for a summer during college. They had 32 students in the Department, but I looked around and there was only 3 of us working. So I asked the Supervisor why they had so many employees that weren’t working. He said that I didn’t understand how Government work ‘works’. He had a budget for 35 people, and that if he didn’t keep them all, they would reduce his department appropriately and his salary would go down accordingly. I was astonished, but glad I would end up in a Science field instead of Government work...
Musk is doing something more ambitious, a full forensic audit, tracing the spending from budget line to actual recipient.
It is more likely a process reengineering type of thing.
Review the “transactional data”, look for low hanging fruit, then find ways to reduce the cycle time 35-50% resulting in staff and expense savings.
I did this stuff for years in three industries. It works. It is painful for those who are tied to the old ways.
I have seen these types of bombastic reactions many times; just never at a national level. LOL
First choice would be FIRE if the y is pronounced as a short e. The y in the middle should not be pronounced like an ee because it is not at the end of the word. Phyrr would be pronounce very similar to Pyre with an F.
Second choice is FEAR, and this would be if the y sounds like a long e or ee, as it often is at the end of words.
Third choice would be FUR. Short e, single r. In this case the yrr would be pronounced like er.
FOR would be a reach because I dont know of a word where the y could be substitued for either a long or short o.
Same with sounding like a short or long a, so FAR and FAIR are out.
Peter Phyrr “FEAR”
I have advocated for this approach to all governmental funding...Federal, State, and Local.
It makes sense. It forces detailed reviews. It helps protect the American Taxpayers.
No reason to NOT do it.
But, start with an AUDIT, too.
Poor guy.
I’d already worked those out, hence my comment.
All unfortunate.
* maybe an umlaut would help.
Bkmk
Some of us have been saying for years, to anyone who would listen, that the way to get spending under control is to blast the Congressional Budget Act of 1972 and all of its spawn to smithereens and go back to ZBB.
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