Have you ever wondered why Dems are terrified of cutting waste and fraud?

[Max3205]

$1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”

$70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland

$2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam

$47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia

$32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru

$2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala

$6 million to fund tourism in Egypt

Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation

Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab

“Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”

Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries

Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban



Why wouldn’t the Dems be applauding cutting this waste?
Do they really want to send their hard-earned tax dollars to Afghanistan so they can produce heroin?

[exitseven]

I don't wonder much at all. Sooner or later Elon and the boys will find a paper trail leading to some democrat politician's bank account. It is only a matter of time.

[Max3205]

But you're not a democrat.

[exitseven]

hahaha you think any of it ended up in my bank account? Fat chance.

[Shiprex]

LOL fucking ROFLMAO the deflections are like Rutherford's gold leaf experiment.

[onedarkcloud]

How do you think a senator making $ 200,000 becomes a millionaire in less than four years?

[Max3205]

True

[MisterWack]

Yeah I mean a lot of those Libtards and Wokies are just mad at DOGE for being a beacon of government efficiency.

Like, when we take into consideration the deficit of both Trump & Biden Administrations we see a hefty loss that falls onto the backs of the American people. President George Washington suggested we pay back what we owe overseas to prevent a default on the deficit crisis which has been building, no one wanted to reverse.

My main concern isn’t DOGE itself, last time I answered this I talked about ‘killing the Penny’ would be a sufficient use of our time and we did it! Hooray, though the concerns I brought up haven’t dwindled yet.

One of my concerns is Elon Musk wasn’t confirmed through the traditional process that everyone goes through, which makes me anxious about other billionaire lobbyist groups weaseling their way close to the POTUS regardless of administration. He is like a George Soros just with a ‘Maga Hat’ which gives him permission free will to do whatever he wants even if it is questionable the morality of the decision like a tech billionaire looking through Americans’ social security cards & files and records since Microsoft still notoriously collects and sells our data overseas.

My concern isn’t govt efficiency more than having an out of touch billionaire looking after his fellow billionaires more than the public. This isn’t an extreme take, it is extreme to deny such a worry exists because it does. A dishonest one at that who takes credit for his workers & organizers hard work just like how he took credit for a top gamer’s hard work, passing it off as his own due to insecurities deep down.

[MisterWack]

*Mainly if we had a Non Partisan group of fighters for government efficiency that are comprised of No Politicians or at least some Democrat, some Republican, and some Independents just to keep the focus moving & they can talk out / discuss what funds should stay & where to make cuts also how to payback the deficit we continuously grow would be great.

[mattthefatbat]

I think they aren't scared of that. They've helped hire people to do that job legally and professionally for years, without the judges having to scrutinize them. Because judges have no need to go disagree with people reasonably following the law.

However now its different.. instead trump's people think it's completely legal to go against the law and search and dig around illegally simply because trump doesn't see a problem with Elon musk and doge despite them never being mentioned throughout trump's campaign.

It's like having your taxes filed by a trained professional as compared to some guy who hardly knows the laws of taxes filing your taxes. The professionals would file your taxes be clear with you through the process and besure things are done safely and legally. As compared to the uknowledgeable they'll skip over a lot of things, not understand the consequences, not be clear and upfront with you and you'll run the risk of losing money and end up in a worse off situation.
Basically doge are not trained professionals for the job. Wouldn't you rather trust the professionals rather than some untrained people?

[Snakeyes7]

The best explanation I ever got was that taking US influence out of other countries creates a power vacuum and leaves them vulnerable for our adversaries to spread their own influence.

I'd agree a bit more if what we were doing was increasing the standard of living for these countries but we were spreading progressive propaganda instead which does nothing but teach them that biology as we always knew it was wrong the whole time.

[Max3205]

LOL.

[seeyounexttuesday]

Because they're the ones laundering the money.

Here's a good way to think about it. Since people have a hard time envisioning what a billion is.

The average person makes about $2 mil in his/her lifetime. So a billion dollars is the ENTIRE lifetime earnings of 500 people.

[Surely]

Because they don’t want their fingers caught in the cookie jar! Otherwise they could better explain their opposition to the friendly audits.

[Max3205]

100%

[msc545]

Much of it was done to promote good will - a concept you people have always seen fit to disregard. It will be interesting to see what happens when you try to cut costs for the US arms merchants.

[Max3205]

I would use the money to take care of homeless americans. You would not because you don't care about them.

[FreyaRed]

Cutting down their funding channels makes them losing power, because the one who pays decides.

[GAGsucksballs89170]

And yet we spend millions even billions on guns, and the armed forces
Mean while, we have people living on the streets, and trumps answer for that is to "make it illegal to be poor"

FUCKING PATHETIC

[Avicenna]

No, I don't, because I already know- they're corrupt and predatory.

[Smegskull]

There is a reason the group that gets all the HR degrees complain to HR all the time. The group with all the nursing degrees want better bedside care.

Collectivist thinkers put the interests of the collective before principals.

[Jjmetalchick]

Oooh.. So scawyyyy!!! Wake up! You're racist.

[SmokinAces2000]

You can say that it’s wasteful spending but nothing you mentioned is fraud

[Bricealan]

@max3205 You are exactly dead on, correct.

[Max3205]

Thanks

[Dongie]

Because it's their programming Period

[Dongie]

They ssy you don't like me anymore Max.

[Dongie]

They say. Everybody knows who you are, but they're always anonymous. What's the matter with them? Why do they fuck with me about you?

[Ariesman81]

Again... vampires hate sunlight

[Max3205]

True

[OddBeMe]

Waste like defense spending?

[Max3205]

American taxpayer doesn't want to pay for your gay parades in peru.

[OddBeMe]

We don't want to pay for red states to... live.

[LiamS95]

It mean cutting or eliminating themselves.