Re: The weak kneed "doge" website

On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 09:54:09 -0800, BTR1701 wrote:
 

 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.

 
Even if it's for national security?