Posted on 02/08/2025 6:58:20 PM PST by RandFan
@elonmusk
To be clear, what the @DOGE team and @USTreasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following:
- Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible.
- All payments must also include a rationale for the payment in the comment field, which is currently left blank. Importantly, we are not yet applying ANY judgment to this rationale, but simply requiring that SOME attempt be made to explain the payment more than NOTHING!
- The DO-NOT-PAY list of entities known to be fraudulent or people who are dead or are probable fronts for terrorist organizations or do not match Congressional appropriations must actually be implemented and not ignored. Also, it can currently take up to a year to get on this list, which is far too long. This list should be updated at least weekly, if not daily.
The above super obvious and necessary changes are being implemented by existing, long-time career government employees, not anyone from @DOGE . It is ridiculous that these changes didn’t exist already!
Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious.
When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!!
This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately.
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Whether by ill fortune or the will of God, I will probably never have children. I do work with children on a regular basis however. And not long ago I helped start up a troop of Trail Life boys. It has been greatly on my mind: what kind of a country are people like me leaving for our children?
For the first time in my life, I am coming to have hope that we may yet leave them something to be proud of.
I totally LIKE your list.
Send it off to Musk for inclusion in Fed accounting going forward....
Very Excite.
I should have done that at the church, but it would have been tedious. I wasn’t paid enough for that.
I said that wrong. I wasn’t paid enough to put up with more whining.
Once they cut 4.5 trillion out of the budget, which I think they will do, no more income taxes.
Suspicious? To say the least...
Me too!
The first time someone has ever looked at the books.
Many amusement
This temp order was put on place by an Obama judge until the case is heard by a Biden judge. How did these rat AG’s get this line up that guarantees they get what they want?
I understand there will be a pretty good show at the Super Bowl with Musk spending $40 million to advertise what he found so far.
The left needs lots of planning to do anything. They can’t really do anything on the fly.
The current thinking among conservatives is that Trump needs to continuously hit hard and fast. Because the left does not have the bandwidth anymore for rapid response.
More importantly perhaps too. Trump has been taking down their funding sources.
The big leftist political are usually rented out.
Finally, there is kind of dull incomprehension on the leftists part that the world has changed. I used to see that in republicans all the time. The world had changed but they were talking to a world disappeared 20 before.
A lot of my old high school buddies. They have not changed their internal thinking since they were in their 20’s or roughly 50 years ago.
Aging white leftists are a core constituency of the democrat party. They’re more loyal than anyone else.
I look forward to the day NPR is defunded.
good grief. a roadside fruit stand is run better than this gov’t.
Another core constituency of the Democratic Party are Woke Millenials.
Pete Buttigieg is an example of a Woke Millenial.
But that's not a winning strategy for the Democratic Party.
At this moment, they're in charge.
Once they cut 4.5 trillion out of the budget, which I think they will do, no more income taxes.
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The budget is $6.1T. Of which $1.1T is interest on the debt.
So you think DoD, Soc Sec, Medicare and Medicaid, FDA that inspects food, FAA that juggles airplanes, he VA, all can function on a reduction from $4.9T to $0.5T.
Who’s that?
There IS a way to do that. Reduce all salaries to 0 and with guns pointed at heads require the people to continue to work.
Of course, you have to pay the people holding the guns.
Agree. The religious purists are in charge of the democrat party. At some point there will be a civil war between the religious purists and the democrats who want to survive. That may not come until after the 2026 midterms where a republican sweep would force the democrats to see they’re facing an extinction level event. Trump is doing his part. He constantly finding issues that the country splits 80/20 in favor of the republicans and forcing the democrats to defend the issues where their side polls 20% popularity. This causes them to be totally enraged and confused. Its a beautiful thing to watch. Like a bonfire of vanities.
This is where Trump has his superpowers.
Bill Clinton would never have make mistakes like this if he was still active in politics.
Must be due to TDS that they're totally losing it.
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