Re: The weak kneed "doge" website

On Feb 25, 2025 at 10:00:29 PM PST, "Pluted Pup" <plutedpup@outlook.com>
wrote:

 
https://doge.gov/ or Department Of Government Efficiency
 
is quite a useless website that doesn't really
qualify as a public government website, as it
is just links to X-twitter, which is a
members-only "website", very unlike what would be
what would be more properly called a government
website, not a closed access web-forum, like Facebook
or Gab.
 
Where is the actual intention to cut down waste?
 
Let us pretend that USAID, for example, gave 90 million
dollars to support homeless shelters for trans teens in
El Salvador and you feel that that is an example of
government waste. But how could you actually tell whether it is
waste or not just because the premise seems wacky? Like with
TV and movies, premise is easy, it's what you actually do
and not what you said you intend to do that counts.

Well, if the money was appropriated for homeless shelters for trans teens in
El Salvador and you spend it on homeless shelters for trans teens in El
Salvador, then that's prima facie waste since American taxpayers have no
business funding homeless shelters for trans teens in El Salvador.

If the money was appropriated for homeless shelters for trans teens in El
Salvador and you spent it on something else, then you've committed a crime and
should be prosecuted for theft of government resources.

Either way, it's a problem.

 Where is
the accounting for that 90 million dollars, what exactly was
down with it? Given to political activists to do whatever
they please with it, with no outside accounting?
Where is the acknowledgement of the possibility of fraud?
 
And that's what I mean, if you want to stop waste you want
to account for what has and is being done, not whether
or not what it's earmarked for sounds "relevant". For
no matter what it's for, if the grant money is being
given to scam artists it is always a waste, and much
worse.