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Incompetent or crooked? Elon Musk exposing Washington’s rotten system
New York Post ^
| Feb. 10, 2025
| Glenn H. Reynolds
Posted on 02/10/2025 5:18:10 PM PST by george76
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posted on
02/10/2025 5:18:10 PM PST
by
george76
To: george76
Both! No need to create a dichotomy here
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posted on
02/10/2025 5:20:22 PM PST
by
xp38
To: george76
“Incompetent or crooked?”
Hey NYP, you forgot “AND” in the title.
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posted on
02/10/2025 5:23:56 PM PST
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
To: george76
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posted on
02/10/2025 5:24:07 PM PST
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: george76
“Incompetent or crooked?” Not binary choice.
It is not necessary to ascribe malice to mere stupidity, but they work very well in tandem, if mischief is the result, whether intended or not.
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posted on
02/10/2025 5:24:16 PM PST
by
alloysteel
( Beware the old soldier. There's a reason he's old.)
To: george76
BOTH. The incompetent made it EASY for the crooked to steal.
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posted on
02/10/2025 5:25:58 PM PST
by
OHPatriot
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: xp38
I don’t know. It seems they’re pretty competent at fraud.
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posted on
02/10/2025 5:27:01 PM PST
by
MNDude
To: xp38
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posted on
02/10/2025 5:30:45 PM PST
by
Ken Regis
(I concur )
To: george76
As a former bank auditor, it’s almost incomprehensible to me that there has been a total lack of internal controls over the payment system of the US Government; however, after what has gone on especially in the last 4 years, I find myself unsurprised.
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posted on
02/10/2025 5:32:06 PM PST
by
Qiviut
(Come! Live in the light! Shine with the joy and the love of the Lord!)
To: george76
Mostly crooked peppered with incompetence.
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posted on
02/10/2025 5:34:38 PM PST
by
monkeyshine
(live and let live is dead)
To: george76
The New York Post seems to be coming around as of late.
To: Parley Baer
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posted on
02/10/2025 5:37:22 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Qiviut
There are no controls because the people who ran it did not want any impediments to their fraud and embezzlement.
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posted on
02/10/2025 5:52:21 PM PST
by
SauronOfMordor
(Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
To: george76
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posted on
02/10/2025 5:54:56 PM PST
by
linMcHlp
To: Qiviut
And it appears not to matter which party is running the admin. I don’t consider Trump or Musk to be party guys. Absolute power would give BOTH absolute corruption and the lack of care which would be incompetence.
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posted on
02/10/2025 6:00:35 PM PST
by
Yaelle
To: george76
Both and then some. Criminal. Treasonous.
To: george76; All
From a simple systems perspective and design, the category code should have been a mandatory entry field and validated against an acceptable values table. This would prevent blanks but not prevent mis-assigning a value however.
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posted on
02/10/2025 6:21:50 PM PST
by
Cobra64
(Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
To: MNDude
Indeed but government in general excels at incompetence too.
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posted on
02/10/2025 6:30:18 PM PST
by
xp38
To: george76
Back some 14 years ago a bit of software was offered to HHS for Medicare and Medicaid payments. It would check for duplicate and fraudulent SS numbers being used.
It was estimated that it would prevent some 90 billion in waste annually.
They turned it down.
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posted on
02/10/2025 6:45:04 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
To: george76
I wonder if we are being taxed without representation
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posted on
02/10/2025 7:26:34 PM PST
by
algore
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