Posted on 03/16/2025 4:43:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A resurfaced 2011 video reveals former President Barack Obama launching a "Campaign to Cut Waste," strikingly similar to the current Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative to eliminate government inefficiency. In the video, Obama emphasizes the need to reduce wasteful spending, highlighting the appointment of former President Joe Biden to lead the effort, saying that “nobody messes with Joe.” This initiative aimed to increase government accountability, reduce unnecessary costs, and promote fiscal responsibility echoes what the Trump administration is currently trying to do.
Elon Musk recently shared a 2011 video featuring Obama promoting his initiative, "Campaign to Cut Waste," which closely resembles the efforts Musk's DOGE program is currently undertaking. In the video, Obama highlights his efforts to eliminate government waste, pointing out unnecessary federal programs and absurd taxpayer-funded projects, such as an online fan page for a folk music group composed of Forest Rangers.
“Everyone knows that getting rid of the deficit requires some tough decision. And that includes cutting back on billions of dollars in programs that a lot of people care about. But what should be easy is getting rid of the pointless waste and stupid spending that doesn’t benefit anybody,” Obama said in the resurfaced video.
“Obama sounds exactly like DOGE!!” Musk wrote on X
The former president also addressed inefficient government spending, such as unused government-owned buildings. The Trump administration has canceled several leases to reduce such expenditures.
Democrats applauded Obama’s promises to cut waste then but now are crying hysterically when Trump takes real action.
In addition, former President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore launched a similar initiative called the "Reinventing Government."
Its goal was to reduce government waste, improve efficiency, and cut unnecessary spending. The initiative included the creation of the National Partnership for Reinventing Government (NPR), which sought to streamline federal agencies and improve how they served the public. It was an early attempt to modernize the federal government-- similar to DOGE, which sought to reduce inefficiency and improve fiscal responsibility.
liberals are fully bipolar and need really strong meds to exist in society.
Probably because their DOGE was just a PR stunt.
That's because they knew the Obama move was a joke, a sham to keep the public quiet while they built their arcology of corruption, globalism, and eventual wokeism. They never really meant it to work. Now that the adults are running the show and making DOGE work, it's destroying all they have worked for over the last two generations.
They cheered because they knew he didn’t mean it.
There’s more. They knew no one would remember when it doesn’t happen-attention spans.
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DOGE should defund it.
LOL. Once Barry set Joe up with finding the waste and fraud, Joe called Hunter and used Hunter to simply design even more fraudulent schemes for the Democrats and Biden, Inc.
Which proves they are NOT outraged by what Trump and Elon are doing, they are just upset they dont have D’s next to their names. If Trump had a D next to his name the media would call him a national treasure, MSNBC would want a statue built in his honor, calling him a hero for trying to cut waste and fraud
That’s because they knew Soetoros was lying through his teeth.
The Satanic RATS are all very small minded. They haven’t a clue.
Even before that there was Al Gore and his “reinventing government” fiasco. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Partnership_for_Reinventing_Government
It was a facade, a lie that continues to this day. Nothing will change until the administrative state is extirpated, base line budgeting is stopped and the uniparty is finally cleaved in two. Don’t hold your breath, but there is always hope.
In some cases, yes. In most cases, the meds won't help enough. They simply need to be locked up.
I agree.
Dems weren’t afraid of spending cuts then because they knew none would happen. Had Obama really wanted to eliminate wasteful spending he would have fired VP Biden, not put him in charge of the program.
Cause obammy blew smoke up everyone’s rear where as the Donald fires lots of dead wood in the federal gub mint.
Because democrats don’t get a chance to whack the money in Trump’s DOGE program.
You know their #1 rule no cash no backing.
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