Frank wrote on May 21
st, 2025 at 11:05am:
ProudKangaroo wrote on May 21
st, 2025 at 9:33am:
Frank wrote on May 20
th, 2025 at 8:27pm:
ProudKangaroo wrote on May 19
th, 2025 at 8:06pm:
Frank wrote on May 19
th, 2025 at 5:19pm:
Estimated Savings so far
$170B
Combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions.
Amount Saved Per Taxpayer
$1,055.90
Per taxpayer amount is calculated using an estimate of 161 million individual federal taxpayers.
https://doge.gov/savings So we're just going to pretend the cuts haven't directly cost lives?
Sick one.
How MAGA of you.
Well, I don't know what you are pretending. Government expenditure can do with a review and a trim. Only an idiot would disagree.
Do you disagree?
One topic at a time. You can't just gloss over the people who died by trying to justify it as the price of Government Efficiency...
Oh really? People died? Because waste was cut?
So we need government waste, people depend on it? That your angle?
You’ve just exposed the limits of your thinking, or more precisely, the boundaries of what you've been told to think, that everything DOGE cut was “waste”.
We already know DOGE has repeatedly cooked the books in its reporting, attributing savings to initiatives that were either already cancelled under Biden, already paid for, or, in many cases, double-counted. Their numbers are not only inflated, they’re fraudulent.
Unless you agree that they're incompetent, and yet another example of the abandonment of merit-based appointments under Trump, only strengthening the notion that their obsession with "merit" was only ever a cover for bigotry.
So the first problem is that the headline “savings” figure they’re peddling is bogus, and the second, more serious issue, is the assumption that what was cut constituted waste in the first place.
Take one example, highly relevant, and now tragically consequential, the DOGE
-ordered staffing reductions at National Weather Service offices in April 2025. Jackson, Kentucky’s office lost its full-time overnight forecaster and has since been operating with just nine staff instead of the standard fourteen.
These reductions weren’t some natural attrition, they were the result of targeted buyouts and politically motivated firings under the Trump administration, executed through DOGE. The office was left without overnight coverage, precisely when people are most vulnerable and least likely to see a warning unless it's issued promptly and forcefully.
And then came May 16.
Despite efforts from the remaining staff, the Jackson office’s reduced capacity directly compromised its ability to issue timely and comprehensive tornado warnings. The result? Dozens dead, an unusually high toll, many of whom might have lived had the warning infrastructure been adequately resourced.
All thanks to DOGE’s ideological drive to “cut waste”, regardless of consequence.
So tell me again, having a properly staffed emergency warning service is “waste”? This isn’t fiscal discipline, it’s homicidal negligence dressed up as efficiency.
The most ironic part is that it happened in the heartland of some of the highest MAGA-voting strongholds in the country.
Those people won't be around any longer to complain about the leopards eating their faces, but they had the day, or in this case the night, they voted for, tragically.
you’re not reacting to any actual policy detail, just to how it’s been reported in the media?
There’s no reason to get emotional or spiral into a meltdown over speculation.
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