Posted on 11/13/2024 9:46:15 AM PST by dennisw
As of Wednesday morning, the post had garnered more than 26 million views, 18,000 comments, and 50,000 retweets. Business leaders were among those reacting to the news and, in some cases, offering suggestions.
Ryan Petersen, CEO of supply chain management company Flexport, responded on X asking where to submit programs to cut.
"The US Department of Agriculture runs a foreign language school. I took a Chinese class there. Why does the department of agriculture need to teach Chinese? We have community colleges for that right?" Petersen wrote. The USDA does not offer typical foreign language classes, but provides access to language learning tools through an internal platform.
Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge fund manager and outspoken Trump supporter, reposted Musk's announcement of a leaderboard on X, writing, "It's becoming exciting again to be an American." Shuan Maguire, another outspoken Trump supporter and partner at venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, retweeted the president-elect's announcement that Musk would head DOGE and called it "one of the greatest things I've ever read."
The responses to Musk's announcement and general appointment as head of DOGE stretched across the partisan tech aisle. Aaron Levie, CEO of cloud computing company BOX who endorsed Harris, responded to Trump's announcement of the agency on X.
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Elon Tweeted—— https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1856520760656797801
All actions of the Department of Government Efficiency will be posted online for maximum transparency.
Anytime the public thinks we are cutting something important or not cutting something wasteful, just let us know!
We will also have a leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars. This will be both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining
___________________
REPLY BY INSURRECTION BARBIE ———
@elonmusk
and
@VivekGRamaswamy
are about to transform the government. I am so excited about this government efficiency unit.
I have some suggestions on what to cut:
1. Payments to dead people
2. Money for Pakestani gender studies
3. Boosting Egyptian tourism
4. Make up classes for trans people in the Middle East
Just spit balling
Maybe start with the defense industry and, by extension, the Cheneys.
I for one am excited about a new Trump presidency. I only had a dozen employees during my peak time pre Chomo Joe. It has never gotten close to recovering with the child sniffing chomo in charge. The day after the erection (HT Chucky Shumer) I had three former clients call asking if I’m able to ramp up production again. They have been sitting on cash this whole time.
Good idea. Elon and Vivek may want to solicit ideas from the American people as to what to cut or get rid of. They may want to solicit ideas from FReepers.
Hey, Dinosaur media, your own posse at CNBC identified $247 billion in waste fraud and abuse. That is about 7% of the current US Budget.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/18/heres-how-the-federal-government-wastes-tax-money.html
Apr 18, 2023 — Upwards of $247 billion in taxpayer money was wasted last year, according to estimates by the Government Accountability Office.
“It’s becoming exciting again to be an American.”
When I was in Mongolia after the demise of the Soviet Union, they were excited about the future and were rediscovering their past which had been suppressed for 80 years. In their case it was Ghengis Kahn and Buddhism.
What will we rediscover? MAGA
The USFS, US PARK SERVICE, and BLM lands are managed under a trust.
Take it away and turn it over to the local counties.
If the counties don’t want it, then the state.
This is the left's current mindset about Elon and Vivek and government efficiency
Around 10 minutes long
BTTT
[Ninth Amendment] The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
[Tenth Amendment] The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released his 2023 “Festivus” Report, totaling ~$900,000,000,000 in government waste.
This marks Dr. Paul’s ninth edition of the Festivus Report as he continues working to alert the American people to how their federal government uses their hard-earned money.
Some of the highlights include the National Institutes of Health spending a portion of a $2.7 million grant to study Russian cats walking on a treadmill and Barbies used as proof of ID for receiving COVID Paycheck Protection Program funds. The Department of Defense ruined over $169 million worth of military equipment by leaving it outside, the United States Agency for International Development spent $6 million to promote tourism in Egypt, and the Small Business Administration gave ‘struggling’ music artists like Post Malone, Chris Brown, and Lil Wayne over $200 million.
You can find Dr. Paul’s 2023 Festivus Report Here. -- https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Festivus-2023.pdf
Expose it all Elon...
Expose every bit of this wide spread government corruption.
We need a “what should be”, too.
One of the few things a web search returns good results for https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=wasteful+government+spending+programs
Equity overload: Feds keeps 294 DEI staffers on payroll, most with six-figure salaries
pic—Secy of U.S. Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra hosts a panel discussion with families directly affected by the Alabama Supreme Court Court decision in Birmingham, Ala., on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/ Butch Dill) **FILE**
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Tuesday, November 12, 2024
HHS employs 294 people whose jobs focus on diversity, and maintains seven “minority health” offices spread across its agencies, according to a report that suggests unwinding it all will be tough for the incoming Trump administration. The majority of those staffers, 182 workers, are paid six-figure salaries. The top diversity job earner, who works at the Food and Drug Administration, collected $221,000 in 2023, OpenTheBooks said in its report Tuesday.
The watchdog said spending on the diversity, equity and inclusion agenda “permeated” the department, appearing 829 times in its 2025 budget and totaling hundreds of millions of dollars in direct spending.
Among the costs were vaccine programs explicitly aimed at gay Black men, money earmarked for opioid programs that vowed to tackle “systemic racism,” a $5 million proposal to “diversify the doula workforce” and $5,000 to pay for an appearance by Ibram X. Kendi, a leading “antiracism” voice. A doula is a person who provides support for people undergoing significant health-related experiences such as childbirth.
“When it comes to DEI and health equity spending, payroll expenses are a drop in the bucket. Promoting these topics can be lucrative for federal employees looking to expand their agency’s budget and for private scientists hoping to win grants,” the analysts said. OpenTheBooks said every dollar spent on equity in HHS’s bureaucracy is money that doesn’t go to health. It also ends up justifying other bad policies, said John Hart, head of OpenTheBooks.
“DEI at HHS is concierge Marxism,” he said. “Academia is delivering a boutique and racially charged permission structure that helps bureaucrats feel morally innocent about imposing top-down, command and control policies that can disproportionately harm low-income Americans.”
HHS is one of the largest federal departments in terms of budget and has some 80,000 employees across more than a dozen divisions.
OpenTheBooks says HHS’s focus on DEI sprang from President Biden’s demand for a “whole of government” effort to advance the issue. The study found that 92 DEI employees are working under Secretary Xavier Becerra at HHS. More than 200 others were spread among various agencies. The FDA alone had three DEI-related divisions: one for diversity management, a diversity working group and a DEI “excellence” center.
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• Stephen Dinan can be reached at sdinan@washingtontimes.com.
Copyright © 2024 The Washington Times, LLC.
Boy, that board will really be busy, as this will encompass virtually everything Washington does.
I personally have no need or time to see what the rejected think.
Btw, it's not complicated. It basically boils down to the monster government VS the people.
The government has become a costly corrupt all encompassing boated monstrosity that is choking off the people.
America First - Not Government first.
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