• Snowclone@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      No no, billionaires would never steal money after closing down oversight and watchdog agencies, then brazenly starting a new ‘‘office of mysterious authority you don’t get to background check that operates in the dark’’ and using it to access the most sensitive parts of US government fictionallity. That’s crazy talk!

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        12 hours ago

        You guys are literally fighting against government transparency and stopping wasteful spending of your (or at least someone elses) tax dollars because you have an irrational hatred for the guy. Absolutely insane. No one should be against what DOGE is doing - unless of course you’re one of the many people profiting from the blank cheques being handed out wastefully.

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          11 hours ago

          the blank cheques being handed out wastefully

          What blank cheques exactly?

          And I’m not sure how you do it down in oz, but in most other countries, the government creates budgets for each agency, and those agencies then decide how to allocate their funds. If the government thinks that some agency is wasting too much money, they reduce their budget. There’s not supposed to be a king who decides all that on a whim.

          And how many “blank cheques” to the defense industry have been investigated? Surprise, because it’s not about cutting “wasteful spending”.

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            6 hours ago

            What blank cheques exactly?

            The ones where USAID literally just approved every single thing that came into their inbox.

            It seems like the USA government didn’t even have a real budget, they just kept handing out money to all the NGOs that threw most of it back their (the politicians) way. They definitely don’t have an auditable budget.

            Is there massive waste in the defense industry? Absolutely - and DOGE will get there. They’ve been at the job for like 2 weeks, they haven’t gotten to every single nook and cranny.