Two Billionaires’ Big Plan to Shrink Government

[@CanAlfredosauce]

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[@Phillipsburg08]

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[@cliffgaither]

The politicans want to shrink government because corporations will have less accountability and less of a power structure to hold them responsible. They will be able to pollute without consequences. Big, imposing government is fine when corporations want public bail-outs and financial support from the public. The public pays for the research and development of corporations. The corporations are given incalculable, escape hatches and loop-holes to avoid taxes. The CEO's own the government.

[@bernay8274]

Buy into the shit. The gov’t has not been accountable for almost 70yrs yet we dismiss the premise and want to Hamer on the people? Lol

[@bernay8274]

Stay on one line argument is idiotic

[@sot8343]

You're right about one thing the government isn't working for you. That's why we have voted to change it even if we have to break it.

[@namei8967]

​@@sot8343not break it but cut the fat from obesity

[@condor68y1]

SCOTUS allowing unlimited financial contributions to political campaigns by companies is root cause. Corporations should not be able to donate $1 to politics or propaganda campaigns. It is a government by and for the people", not for corporations. All meetings with "lobbyists" should be vodieo recorded and placed on the web for 100% transparency and disclosure. Meetings not recorded should be a FELONY for any legislator, or their representatives.

[@jim2376]

". . . a government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires . . . ." Here are three reasons, among others, we have government regulations: (1) Bernie Madoff, (2) Goldman Sachs, and (3) Enron.

[@jeffersonianjeff3585]

​@@Abcd-jz4gp#BabyDoomerism happened.

[@lauraw.7008]

@jim2376 And now we can add (4) United Health Care.

[@MinistryOfDance-MoDA]

Remind me of the fact that Communist countries around the world always said "the people" whenever they wanted to do whatever

[@grantgengel5000]

Never, EVER FORGET that only two things keep the rich from enslaving the rest of us are; 1. Government 2. Labor Unions Any wonder why they work so hard to destroy both? Also remember that if you are not at the table, you are on the menu.

[@jeffersonianjeff3585]

​@grantgengel5000 Only a rebublic's government framed upon an ambition for a Democracy-based culture enabling the people power to control the polity power by electing representatives to serve them. The USA is such a government of/by/for the people, a people who have failed to a) not be manipulated by propaganda by focusing on the project to establish a more perfect union, b) repeatedly replace politicians to prevent power from corrupting them, c) participate in civil society and know civics to live up to their citizenship responsibilities. So what generation has been in control of society demographically, getting markets shaped to their consumer demand and allowing too many career politicians who have allowed government to be captured by those who wield the economy power. These three power no longer are in the ideal equilibrium for the Everyday People (the commoners) for whom the nation was established. If this interests you, a book discusses it: "Doomerism & 'Me first' Baby Boomers.

[@arnoldwillis7685]

Oligarchs love to break things up and pick up the pieces for a profit. Tax these clowns.

[@alexcaminiti]

This. 70% to 90%. For years. There goes the deficit. We would still be spending billions/trillions of undeclared war and supporting other countries instead of our own.

[@Dan-dy8zp]

Exactly. This has been tried in other countries and it works great . . . for the billionaires!

[@grantgengel5000]

@@arnoldwillis7685 They break government and then say “see, government doesn’t work. We are the ONLY ONES who can fix it. Give them power, they will strip away every dime for themselves. This is not the first time this has happened. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance

[@grantgengel5000]

@@alexcaminiti I do not recall voting for Elon Musk, a fool who is not even a citizen of The United States. I cannot imagine him improving my life in any way. He keeps Trump like a pet, whispering complete bullshit into his ear every morning.

[@grantgengel5000]

Grover Norquist, Republican strategist, 2001 “I just want to shrink government down to a size where we can drown it in a bathtub.” So, we see that is not new. If government disappears, we are at their mercy. Welcome back to The Middle Ages.

[@Ricosuave91596]

Why a South African making decisions for Americans??

[@virtue_signal_]

What kind of racist who cares where someone's from if they have good ideas..

[@virtue_signal_]

It doesn't matter where good ideas come from.

[@mariazamora2713]

He's just as crooked as the one that appointed him. The cuts are going for the wealthy. The cuts are going to be in the programs that help the low income survive, Medicare is going to be altered to please the government, the elderly, the disabled the single parent struggling to pay daycare so she can work to put food on the table, are the ones to suffer the most. Ellen Musk is already getting $3 million in just one contract he already had before the election.

[@JimmyLem]

Exactly. Notice how normal it is for the others commenting here to not answer the question and instantly politicize it. These dogs are trained well.

[@GatorDontPlayNoShT]

Everything war related.. cia, pentagon, fbi, nsa, Everything

[@stevematthews4489]

"The government wouldn't have a deficit problem if they only paid for stuff I want and didn't pay for anything else" - pretty much anybody complaining about the budget

[@jerrylewis9699]

Who's talking here a Billionaire, didn't pay for anything? 😮

[@katem.8816]

@@stevematthews4489 Good one!

[@DXingTraveller]

I'm going to save you 30 minutes of your time. 15:30 "The problem you're going to run into is Congress. That's the problem these efforts always run into. The reason the government spends money on these things is the government told them to. So now to cut them, you need Congress to undo that effort". Bingo. The rest of this podcast was fluffing up Elon and Vivek about what they can do. They are literally just a advisors. They have *no* authority to do anything. They can have the biggest, best plan in the world but without Congress it's not worth the paper it's written on.

[@BwareOfMommaBear]

Thank you !

[@nate665]

The executive branch can just, not spend the money allocated to an agency.

[@DXingTraveller]

@@nate665 That's not true if we're following the Constitution. The Constitution gave Congress the power of the purse, and that power precludes the President from unilaterally deciding not to spend money that Congress has provided.

[@jacksonletts3724]

Kind of. It’s unclear whether congress can force a president to spend money, and there is precedent that they can’t force a president to enforce certain laws. Congress has a law on the books that tries to force the president to spend the allocated money, but it’s never been tested at the Supreme Court. Edit: it’s important to note that the speaker is right in the video that the federal government can’t just reinterpret the regulations out of existence, since that would fall under the removal of chevron. It’s just that the discretion to prosecute falls under the executive branch. So for the duration of the Trump term they could choose not to enforce the regulations or maybe not spend money on these programs (the money is untested).

[@DXingTraveller]

@@jacksonletts3724 It'll be interesting to see it played out in the courts. Nixon tried to regularly impound funds, federal/state/local entities sued and regularly won. We'll see if the same happens now.

[@gracemorris8414]

You mean save themselves taxes. SCREW the rest of us.

[@mprice8851]

When billionaires say they want to shrink government, what they’re really saying is that they want less government regulation on their own businesses. This does not help average people in any way.

[@katediehl4836]

YES

[@cvn6555]

Less regulations means lower costs. To all of us. This isn't difficult.

[@mprice8851]

No. It leads to a concentration of a few large corporations that lead to monopolistic pricing.

[@gigid9606]

you are wrong. I work for the government, and there is A HELL OF ALOT OF WASTE going on. I think ANYTHING that could get us out of the deficit, and help the economy run more efficiently (even it still wont but it will be better) will be helpful. We are the only country that acts like this, wastes as much as our country, etc. Its bullshit.

[@AminjemalSelamo]

😊❤

[@unfixablegop]

From a billionaire's perspective "government" means regulations and money for the poor. So if you are the selfish type you say "shrink".

[@WGAGENCY]

Opposite actually.

[@Alwaysiamcaesar]

DENY. DEFEND. DEPOSE.

[@YABBAHEY1]

Chevron Deference reversal was a huge mistake. Oil Co's, Chemical Co's, Plastics Co's etc.. Will regulate themselves. Yay ! & we'll all benefit from the trickle down economy. Won't be able to drink the water or eat fish for decades but Yay ! CEO's & stockholders are living for today, Yay !! Can't wait to wait on the rich, Yay. NYT's has become a disappointment

[@carolmeyer8032]

& the water will turn to blood

[@Bunnylandu]

“The future is going to be amazing”. (Yeah, for US Billionaires )

[@direwolf6234]

popular science mags from the 60s said we'd have more leisure time and flying belts by now ...

[@naomilove5580]

The largest wealth transfer in history was during the designer flu we weren’t allowed to talk about which was enforced by the very same companies who benefited from it. Now that’s facisim

[@bigdaddycros]

Sorry liberal, wealth gap widen under Biden more than anytime in history. Revise; liberal ideology to close the gap did the opposite. Complete with biggest spending president in history. In acted by sloppy liberal government & workers. BOOM!!

[@MMMMM-v5m]

Just a short note - the Grace commission under Ronald Reagan was headed by J. Peter Grace he ran W.R. Grace. The company has been involved in several controversial incidents of proven and alleged corporate crimes, including exposing workers and residents of an entire town to asbestos contamination in Libby[43] and Troy, Montana, water contamination (the basis of the book and film A Civil Action) in Woburn, Massachusetts, and an Acton, Massachusetts, Superfund site. This is from their Wikipedia page. Naturally they were facing over 129,000 claims. This lead them to file for bankruptcy. Twitter or X as Musk now likes to call it is loosing users by the day, even the hour. How many is hard to know since it's now a private company. Before we thrust the handling of our government over to a couple of billionaires, maybe we should look at what they have done.

[@ShirleyNelson-hn9pc]

First cut should be salaries of congressmen.

[@aleccraig7283]

Congressmen's wealth do not come from their salaries

[@JNosewicz7569]

They hardy make anything as it is.🙄

[@claireconover]

and senators. if you can see them spinning policy on tv, they should be working for the lowest wage available to the rest of us.

[@dar4835]

​​@aleccraig7283 insider trading... plus, they have medical, dental, all of that for life, and a superb retirement plan to go with that!

[@JaneDoe-tr5xy]

With todays tech we don't need them ~ they are THE BODY of the BEAST is the body of CONgress and their hand picked JuDas$ JuDges$ are the HEAD$

[@seanmcdonough8815]

Musk will cut 2 trillion just as soon as his robo taxis take off, Or his boring gets going, or his semi shows its cheaper than rail, or his roadster is ready, or his cyber truck gets to $36k, or his starship goes to mars last year, or his hyper loop gets going, or his self driving goes legit........... clowns

[@leewilliams2312]

elon musk is a clown along with all the rich trump is a big yellow /orange fool the biggest that will be in a leader ship postion

[@jimgraham6722]

Yep, just a garden variety flim flam merchant. One thing is for sure he and his boss have snouts deep in trough and will profit mightily off the backs of tax payers

[@leewilliams2312]

@@seanmcdonough8815 I agree fuck elon musk he is a elite puppet and hisctrue agenda will be seen next year

[@williamfrost9910]

Third world countries have small governments.

[@adtastic1533]

No they don't. They have socialist Govts. That's why they're 3rd world.

[@grantgengel5000]

@@williamfrost9910 that’s why they are third world. What sort of government should we have?

[@rosemariebredahl9519]

Most regulations exist because the "honor system" didn't protect citizens from abuse by a few. In general, laws limit freedoms of masses because violations by the few became unacceptable. Thus, individuals abusing freedoms hurts us all, yet laws are still necessary ... and many cumbersome annoying regulations are too. If the "honor system" always worked, imagine how different our world would be ... but it doesn't always work. ⚖️

[@cvn6555]

True but these departments are not vested with the power to create laws. They have been doing so for decades and that is about to stop. Only Congress can make laws and SCOTUS has made this clear in recent rulings. All of these regulations are about to cease to have any enforcement capability. Narrowing the focus of these agencies will necessitate far fewer employees. Easy to fire people.

[@FlawlessP401]

Maybe we should accept liberty over suffocating "security"

[@kennj321]

@@FlawlessP401 I think more will find unregulated capitalism more suffocating.

[@guru47pi]

@@rosemariebredahl9519 you're right; most regulations also exist because they're good for business. People don't want to buy baby formula that could have lead, melamine, or e. coli.

[@gbaran7991]

Most regulations comes from companies wanting to stifle competition…

[@gregkeras]

Hi. Again, here is this trope of "paying interest on the national debt." Does the guest mean interest paid by the federal government on federal bonds? Like interest paid to bond-holders, wealthy and not, foreign and domestic? This idea just gets glossed over all the time and should be clarified instead of being left almost intentionally vague.

[@TinaSummers-k6g]

Why is Elon still in America and Vivek two criminal's

[@steppingrock]

Criminals? Really?

[@virtue_signal_]

Because people are spreading lies about them.. like this one.

[@David-dv3oz]

@@virtue_signal_ Why are you defending a billionare so bad? He does not care about you, or anyone he only cares about himself. And if you actually beleieve anyone who is a billionare got that much money in an ethical way you're dumb. Elon Musk is a criminal and should not be in involved politics.

[@timk5867]

The government needs to shrink and the ones that argue against it are profiting the most.

[@GeraldH-ln4dv]

Incorrect. The shrinking of the government won't touch the people who are profiting the most, like Elon. SpaceX has received almost $20 billion in government contracts since 2008, but it isn't even mentioned by Elon as a target. What are among his first targets? People at the EPA who enforced environmental regulations SpaceX was trying to dodge at the south Texas facility. They were the very first people he listed. This all just a smoke screen to fool gullible people into ignoring the real agenda - making Elon richer.

[@imonthebeach3185]

So let’s start by cutting the billions of subsidies to Musk?

[@compedium]

Totally. My grandma who needs medicaid has profited massively!

[@TimLoo-w4u]

​@@compediumhow about getting rid of mat people starting with Donald trump

[@DM-eo6zw]

@@compediumMedicaid isn’t the target. Bloated, useless, government jobs are.

[@montrose252]

“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” - Benito Mussolini

[@tyronewashington230]

Or you just call fascism monoply because the underling problem. Teachers union..monoply. Public school system...monoply. Big pharma...monoply. DNC state corporatism since 1932.💙

[@vinista256]

@@tyronewashington230 ​​⁠ OK, let’s take these one by one …: 1. There are TWO nationally recognized teacher’s unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, and if a person wants teaching, it’s perfectly possible to hire someone who doesn’t belong to either of them. Not a monopoly by ANY definition you can think of. 2. There is no company called “Big Pharma” that has monopoly power. Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, AbbVie, Merck & Co., Roche, Sanofi, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Bristol Meyers Squibb, and Glaxo Smith Kline are the biggest, and there are many more. Some hold patents, which is their right after sinking money into R&D, but even that benefit ultimately expires, and afterward, generic producers are free to compete for market share with reformulated versions. Again, not a “monopoly” by any definition. 3. 🤔 … not even sure what you’re TRYING to express here. Democrats did not re-take the White House until FDR was inaugurated in March 1933. Once he took office, he and the predominantly Democratic Congress enacted measures aimed at CURBING corporate power. “Corporatism” did not become associated with the Democrats until the neoliberal era, and that was after they had been out of power for 12 years and the GOP under Reagan and the first Bush had established a new norm of depending on big-money corporate donations to market their candidates. In the words of the immortal Sam Cooke, I get the feeling that you “don’t know much about history 🎶 ….”

[@carlosSillas14]

Fascism started to counter bolshevism.

[@leliwaleliwa3829]

Democratic montrose

[@SlickSimulacrum]

Maybe you should read more about what fascism is Cupcake.

[@twhite8308]

Someone said that most of have never met a billionaire. Now we have. We can see the thoughtless lies and cruelty every day.

[@e.c7741]

Who is going to tell him to let Americans🎉 solve their problems. He should go back to his country South Africa🎉 and solve his problem he left behind.

[@elliottmcintyre9092]

Shrink government is crap. Government spending is what created democracy. This will lead to more oligarchs and authoritarian rule. It’s not a government issue it’s a leadership issue.

[@katem.8816]

@@elliottmcintyre9092 thank you! Concise and to the Point!

[@WGAGENCY]

Shrink government is not crap. Big government has the same country destroying track record as communism. The real Oligarchs are down in Ukraine getting funded by our tax dollars trying to secure their last piece of the puzzle to form a monopoly on oil world wide. These people believe sovereign nations shouldn't exist. You've already been brainwashed by that democracy word. It doesn't mean for the people, it means for the institutions... aka the oligarchs.

[@GershamCharles]

Sometimes I wish I had the power to move all these people who complain about government to a universe where they got their wish. Where Trump and Elon could do whatever he wanted without safe guards with no Dems to blame as to why he didn’t get or do something he wanted. I’d venture to say many of them would not like it.

[@brettls2]

I wish we could move people like you to full democrat control and people like me to full MAGA control and see who's doing better in 5 years. Big daddy government is not your friend, you're stuck on the modern day slave plantation and can't even see it. We have the most corrupt government this nation has ever seen and thank God blind people like you are in the minority and we are taking our country back!

[@mikeg9b]

SpaceX is a private company. Elon can do whatever he wants. Do employees of SpaceX hate their jobs or love their jobs?

[@TommieWest-vk7th]

I would bet what they are suggesting that they would do then I would bet everything I have you will be impacted too! In a negative way! Dems don’t always complain as it is always the democratic president that has less spending and less deficit! Matter of fact it was under the Clinton administration for the first time in generations that we were in a surplus on the deficit! It is always the republicans and their defense budget with tax cuts for the rich that increases the deficit! Learn about history and economics!!

[@pjcollins-f1u]

If you are not in the financial market right now, you are making a huge mistake. I understand that it could be due to ignorance, but if you want to make your money work for you...prevent inflation

[@rmsmith-q6p]

Same here, I believe the Bitcoin ETFs will be life changing opportunity with my current portfolio of 132k made from my investments with my personal financial advisor I totally agree with you

[@Betty-j7l]

YES!!! That's exactly her name (Maria Williams ) so many people have recommended highly about her and am just starting with her from South Savo

[@Humphrey-k9f]

She is my family' personal Broker and also a personal Broker to many families in the United states, she is a licensed broker and a FINRA AGENT in the United States.

[@Humphrey-k9f]

She's always active on whats~appp..

[@Humphrey-k9f]

+136

[@user-ke1km9bt4s]

Less money and power for EVERYBODY ELSE, and more money and power for the two corrupt, bully billionaires.

[@slappy8941]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@adtastic1533]

LOL! Because paying more taxes for worse Govt and an ever expanding national debt and deficit makes me feel like I've got so much money and power. US Govt is a corrupt transfer of wealth from the public to special interest groups and the only answer is to shrink it because, by its nature, it can't be reformed.

[@Monk-Amani.]

​​@@slappy8941• Think it's humorous? Apparently, you're well off financially. 🙃

[@jaydee2072]

@@Monk-Amani. I think he thinks its hilarious that you clowns attribute altruism to one sect of billionaires and none to another. You can't see the forest for the trees bro. Give up.

[@JaneFleesTexas]

@@slappy8941Unless you’re a billionaire who will benefit from less regulations against harming your workers, I wouldn’t be laughing, Slappy. 🙄

[@HerrFrankenstein]

America does not need billionaires. We need government to work with citizens to make things better. We need universal healthcare and education to keep America strong. We need judicial reform, clean air and water. Billionaires? Think about it... One of them has no idea what a truck is.

[@O.Nerys.1971]

Spoken like a true commie. 🤡🌎

[@ricardodsavant2965]

The millionaires and the billionaires !!!!

[@slappy8941]

Yeah okay buddy. 😂😂😂

[@slappy8941]

​@@gardener6904no

[@jaydee2072]

Nope. Pay for your own health dividends instead of forcing others to pay for you. You still can't see why you lost when every cheat was applied and every trick was played. Suck it up, 4 years of Trump will make your wallet fatter and might change your mind. I doubt it though, you're too far gone down the delusion hole of benevolent government.

[@lbr88x30]

Yes we need to tax billionaires

[@andrewb.9815]

Fun fact: If you took 100% of all billionaires wealth, it would barely fund the Federal Government for 90 days. Why don't you mull that over in your tiny, little brain.

[@jeffslosson1095]

You mean we must tax them more, i guess. Most of them give a lot of people jobs.

[@davidparnell1893]

What an IDIOT.

[@fergalhennessy775]

We already do

[@Gina-dn6xm]

​@@jeffslosson1095little jobs

[@EthanDeanplus]

In addition to taxing billionaires, I'd like them to pay us more.

[@cvn6555]

They already pay far more in taxes than you will make in your lifetime.

[@ponyboy481]

Are you even worth it

[@EthanDeanplus]

@ponyboy481 are they even worth it should be the question? How much of their worth is real vs prospective?

[@EthanDeanplus]

@@cvn6555 probably but how much of their worth is justifiable? CEO pay packages, investments, etc?

[@uberman6023]

Just take ALL of their money. The government would be broke again in two months...or less.

[@cornellhoward3757]

They won't decrease that massive tax cut being planned for billionaires and millionaires..

[@jamessampson7898]

Why don't you worry about the child trafficking and human trafficking before money

[@jordandthornburg]

Tax cuts often lead to more revenue so who cares so long as it is for everyone and not only for them?

[@RussellChinn-pt6xs]

Negotiate Medicare drug prices, private government contractors...

[@JaneDoe-tr5xy]

w/GUBBERment$$$$$$$$ regulation$ and. PAYper work, they can more $ and we need to bring back the laws to prevent monopoLIE$ such as GUBBERment$ are the BEAST of BURdeN and IT$ body is the body of CONgress and their hand picked JuDas$ JuDges$ are it$ HEAD$ ~ no more GUBBERment CONtract$ as we the people can vote on how our $ is spent for public services and we can hold our vendor$ accountable .... Government is not the entity to provide services as it's only JOB is to PROTECT our borders and streets and the CHURCHES job is to provide for the poor... the poor who are ABEL to work should not be getting taxpayer $ as feel entitled to get it... free medical for VETS and job training no more disability checks for a % of disability .... Look at ADAM THE MAN on social media a VET who gets disability AND $ from his videos as one example ... if you can work, you're not disabled .... no more cap$ on FICA ~. a fair tax for all income producers ... some disabled can work part time and should and that income should be considered for their disability income. JOB training for all getting disability beneficiaries as humans need to be productive .... no more sitting home eating chips and drinking soda and watching TV day in/out whilst collecting GUBBERment benefits$. .... only the # of children you can provide for ... no more generational welfare families...... and we need to devote our resources to fix the human broken brain = mental illness .... and cure diseases v BIG pHARMa DRug$ instead

[@Ryanrobi]

Even if you just seized 100% of all the assets of all the billionaires you wouldn't even come close to paying what the deficit is each year and that would be a one-time deal. Just go do the math millionaires and billionaires do not have enough money to cover the debt The people that have all the money are working class normal people that have retirement accounts and have home equity. Democrats think they can have a Denmark style social welfare system with American tax rates on middle class people That's not possible You would need to have Denmark style tax rates which would be double what they are and people making 50 grand a year no one in America will ever be okay paying 25 to 30,000 per year when they make 50,000 a year like they do in Denmark. I work at W-2 job for 6 months a year in those 6 months I make 50,000 and I pay about $8,000 and income tax that's all I would ever want to pay even that's too much for when I get out of the federal government.

[@claygrier4673]

@2:44 "anyone who stood in line at a DMV". That's such and 20th century concept. I don't know about your state, but in mine the DMV is streamlined. You can renew your license and your registration online. I had to go to the DMV last spring and there were around 3 people waiting and I was served and out of there in 10 minutes.

[@AsifKhan-hf9zy]

not to mention, how is the wait at a DMV going to become shorter if one third of the money in the government is no longer there?

[@thegreyghost5846]

The line is always out the door over here

[@dennisg4053]

@@AsifKhan-hf9zy The Federal Government does NOT have ANYTHING to do with State DMV's. What part of that confused you so much ?

[@AncientEgyptArchitecture]

You're right' you don't know about my state. Dealing with the DMV here is a nightmare, it's like taking a 30 year trip in the wayback machine to the time of long lines, peeved clerks, non-air conditioned offices and endless regulations/strange traffic laws. To this day they are still unable to give you your lic. when you apply, they have to make it somewhere else and mail it to you weeks later.

[@Stargate2077]

@@AncientEgyptArchitectureWhat state do you live in?

[@denlucas3439]

Stipid interviewer says people don't like standing in line at the DMV but ignores the lines that will happen when you fire half the employees. Moron

[@kappadarwin9476]

I wish that was focused on. When you let the work force go you have to hire new people to fill those roles. Businesses can't do it because the point of a business is to make a profit.

[@FernandoMoreira]

So your solution would be to add even more workers to the DMV instead? 😂 I wonder how you think Elon's companies are able to be so efficient with up to 80% less people 🤔

[@denlucas3439]

Bought for $44 Billion current value about $12 Billion. What kind of idiot economic theory concludes that's "efficient"??!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lauraw.7008]

Sheep improvement ; because yes, the people who are good at sheering, etc, can travel & teach others better ways. Face it billionaires, ya just gotta pay more taxes as a side effect of becoming and maintaining billionaire status!

[@andrewtheworldcitizen]

There's a reason why the extremely wealthy merchants and plantation owners and slave owners wanted the king beheaded..... They didn't want anyone who could stop them from doing what they wanted to do and they wanted to be kings their selves.....

[@OWLsRoost]

This basically gives the wealthiest individual (Musk) who obviously has means but also has the brain/ thinking ability untethered power to launch anything anywhere anytime, and if he is bound, well he'll be in the ideal position to remove the red tape regulations.

[@stoneneils]

@@OWLsRoost Why are Americans so cultish? Muthk Muthk Muthk Muthk...what has the guy done to tickle your balls so much? Has he donated one penny? Has he launched one business? No, he's acquired and destroyed. An investor..man are you people fked when it comes to heros.

[@MrEshen25]

Tesla does NOT build cars faster than the other major brands! What is he talking about? And F-150 or a camry rolls off the line every 50 seconds. Tesla has MUCH worse fit and finish to boot. Musk deserves no credit for process improvement.

[@MrRhomas913]

Tesla is the only electric car company that makes money.

[@dennisg4053]

Tesla can form the ENTIRE Chassis pan in just 90 seconds. ON a single machine. Which IF you knew ANYTHING about Manufacturing is a major feat. IN his own factory. While many hundreds of Vendors producing F-150 parts are required to supply sub assemblies and so forth so that Ford can assemble them.

[@andrewhill1251]

You are confusing rate of production with time to produce

[@whyarepeoplecrazy]

@@dennisg4053do you own a Tesla? I do. It is hot garbage. In the first year, we drove a 6 year old loaner car, a courtesy of the inefficient dealership, as much as our Model Y. Good luck unloading them now, they’re worthless.

[@DavidHolland-wh1qr]

Another fact David, you totally misspoke the federal budget issue. It takes almost 10% to pay interest on the budget. As you guys love to do...fact check yourselves when you belittle folks who are clearly more intelligent and personality higher achievers. Listen back to your recording and pick yourselves apart as you've just did about those two guys.....thick I'll stay with reporters. I don't consider y'all as journalist. When you come up with a plan to fix our issues, write your Congress or the Senate.

[@oneillbilder]

With governments and central banks gearing up to plow into BTC, holders are going to be the new cantillionaires, It's enticing to consider purchasing some stocks, I'm contemplating investing more than $300k. Thoughts?

[@philipr1759]

The strategies are quite rigorous for the regular-Joe. As a matter of fact, they are mostly successfully carried out by pros who have had a great deal of skillset/knowledge to pull such trades off.

[@HarrietBemish]

Keeping money in the bank is like paying banks and the Govemment. Here's how it works: The bank gives out your money as loan, and charge interest obviously higher than inflation rate, and then give you, the depositor, interest lower than inflation rate. That means net loss for you. That is why I prefer to invest, and on average, my advisor makes returns that always beats inflation!

[@DavidRiggs-dc7jk]

Is there any chance you could recommend who you work with? I've wanted to make this switch for a very long time now, but I've been very hesitant about. I'll appreciate any recommendation.

[@HarrietBemish]

Finding financial advisors like Vivian Jean Wilhelm who can assist you shape your portfolio would be a very creative option. There will be difficult times ahead, and prudent personal money management will be essential to navigating them.

[@DavidRiggs-dc7jk]

She appears to be well-educated and well-read. I ran an online search on her name and came across her website; thank you for sharing.

[@lettucesalad3560]

Presidents shouldn't be allowed to spend more than $200/year of taxpayer money going golfing. $40 million/year is way too much.

[@davidtesler1198]

Mr, Ears or as some call him Mr, Obungho spent money to and as far as I am concerned all presidents have a right to relax, but most people have sfb so they do not understand it

[@lettucesalad3560]

@@davidtesler1198 The orange bully Geesus in 2015 said "Obama golfs too much, the President should be working and not have time to golf".. than as President the Orange Bully Geesus went on to golf 2x more than Obama.. and grifting by going to his own golf clubs and billing the US taxpayer.... So it's 1000x worse than obama.

[@WillieLee-xf6xd]

@lettucesalad3560 DJT donated all of his Presidential salary, mostly to Veteran organizations. Look at net worth before and after office...he is only one who left w/ less.

[@lettucesalad3560]

@@WillieLee-xf6xd Hi Willie.. Just so you know.. DJT only SAID he would donate his salary, he never released his taxes from 2017-2023 yet, so there's no proof. Plus the Presidential salary is $400,000/year. Which is more.. $1.6 million or $140 million? Can you tell which one is more?

[@Private-wj4nd]

@@lettucesalad3560ABC is but one organization that verified that he did indeed donate his salary. You can search for it online. It pops up easily.

[@MrRhomas913]

The ending of the Chevron deference put more responsibility for regulations in the hands of the Legislature rather than the Executive (i.e. the specific administrative agency). The courts will review if the legislation passed gives sufficient authority to the administrative agency to implement the regulation at hand.

[@kennj321]

In the chevron ruling the courts used an example where they confused nitrous and nitrogen oxide. courts will never be able to handle the complexity of technical regulation.

[@MrRhomas913]

​@@kennj321 It is a fine line between giving an administrative agency blanket authority (which violates the separation of powers); and micro managing their ability to implement regulations (which would impact their ability to regulate). (NOTE: I added "ending of" to my above comment)

[@trishakoury-stoops2372]

No cuts to budget stupid! Tax the rich, corporations, republicans, conservatives and especially the churches.. that will change everything for the better for everyone !!

[@tcorourke2007]

17:00 "You can't actually cut government spending because, one time, this one guy, tried and failed." Sorry kids, we'll just have to let the national debt grow exponentially. Don't worry, Paul Krugman says it doesn’t matter.

[@Stargate2077]

How did the debt keep growing? Was it the tax cuts enacted by Republican administrations after the budget was balanced in the 90s?

[@tcorourke2007]

@Stargate2077 Spending more than is taken in.

[@Stargate2077]

@@tcorourke2007 That it ignoring the history over decades of a group of people trying to eliminate anything owned and managed for the good of the public at large by issuing tax cuts then saying the government is overspending as a result of cutting taxes again and again.

[@tcorourke2007]

@Stargate2077 No, I'm rejecting your premise. The government should only spend what it takes in. If the elected officials lower the taxes, a consequent reduction of spending should follow. You don't get to max out the credit card because "the good of the public."

[@birdstrikes]

@@tcorourke2007 you dont know how the debt works.

[@davidclemens1843]

Rather than eliminating entire agencies, wouldn't it be wiser to downsize them? For example: Why does the FBI need 7000 people "working" at FBI headquarters in Washington D.C.? If those people were actually "working," 1000 should be more than plenty !!!

[@AncientEgyptArchitecture]

Probably more like 250.

[@birdstrikes]

How do you know how many employees any agency or company needs? you a business man? no.

[@iemy2949]

I have Starlink. The first rule of customer service is we don’t talk about customer service.

[@rudyb1652]

You never left the firmament. Tax the wealthy 😎

[@cvn6555]

The wealthy already pay most of the taxes. Top 1% pays 21% of the taxes. Top 5% pays 41%. Top 10% pays 70%. Bottom 50% pays about 3.4% If the wealthy actually paid their fair share, the govt would be broke tomorrow.

[@frederickfernandez787]

This nation is centered on the words “BY, OF and FOR” the people. By because we elect our leaders who represent us and make our ideas and concepts into concrete programs, of because we are the constituents of these nation community, for because the entire idea is “public service” not a business which Musk and Ramaswamy are talking about! They refer to efficiency as serving less, adopting less programs and involving less to make the community . Therefore, musk notion of a nation is to deport more people, serve lesser people and saving money to lessen debt incurred by the country…Everything they talk about is based on money and greed! Such a pathetic and sad concept…

[@aleccraig7283]

Wtf are they talking with this attitude? The government spends more than it earns, we need to cut until that is no longer the case.

[@jadabaudelaire118]

No need to cut. The GDP was 27 trillion last year. We earn FAR more than we spend. The problem is that we allow billionaires and millionaires AND the businesses they own, to pay far less than their share.. While simultaneously bilking the common citizen.

[@davidwestwater2219]

​@jadabaudelaire118 we do not take in more money than we spend

[@aleccraig7283]

@ if the imbalance in the budget continues, the dollar will implode and America and Americanism will be destroyed. We are backing our debt with brute force. If we had a credit score it would say “NUKES”. The only reason other nations tie their ship to ours is because of our perceived military dominance. Unless there is a huge change in how we spend, our interest payments WILL reach a fever pitch and force us to A. Print out way out of debt (death of the dollar) or B. Turn our bluff of dominance into a physical assertion. I don’t want either

[@larrym2434]

@@davidwestwater2219 Not when Trump gives deep tax cuts to billionaires and corporations.

[@SweetDreaming28]

@@aleccraig7283 Because the rip-off artists (aka millionaires and billionaires find way to bilk the system, cheat on taxes, buy politicians to pass rip-off legislation, buy judges to strip our rights and allow huge financial corporations, like religious entities avoid taxes yet get involved in politics. Scammers in charge of the system.

[@AncientEgyptArchitecture]

I see so many commenters here claiming the social security is part of the problem and needs to be trimmed/eliminated...apparently we have forgotten that in the beginning, SS was designed to be a way for the employed to put aside a portion of their wages that the government would then put into insurance programs, which in turn would invest the money and the dividends would provide the funding to support retirees. Unfortunately, the program has been a victim of mismanagement/bungling over the decades, the insurance funds management has also been disappointingly inept, and then eventually the congress became fond of raiding the SS fund for money to support bills/programs, resulting in looming insolvency by 2033, when it will become broke. The situation has essentially been created by congress. What is needed is a fresh start, where the program can be run in the manner originally intended, with savvy money managers in charge and immunity from congressional meddling, not trimming or eliminating the program.

[@adtastic1533]

SS is a ponzi scheme at this point. A ponzi scheme that won't be around when you and I retire the way it's going.

[@Ryanrobi]

I used to be a moderate Democrat that really liked the sound of all this reasonable sounding regulation until I started my own business and I highly regulated industry and I realized how idiotic the regulations are and how they don't actually fix anything It just make it easier for the biggest companies to limit their competition. The federal government in particular is vastly too large and it duplicates almost everything that state governments do We do not need an EPA every state has their own environmental laws there's no point duplicating them. I highly doubt they will actually make much progress in efficiency and they definitely won't cut very much money out because almost all the funding is on extremely popular things like social security Medicare Medicaid defense etc. and all of these programs just take money from working class younger people and give it to Richard older people and put the debt to make that happen on younger people and their kids It's the most unfair thing I've ever seen in my life and it was all started by Democrats...

[@birdstrikes]

huh couldn't read. didn't make any sense.

[@FEV369]

@@birdstrikes It's because you drown yourself in bullshit like NYT and day time TV.

[@TheJagjr4450]

Nothing will make you a conservative quicker than running a business which has to navigate some type of federal regulatory scheme.

[@manxx25]

@@TheJagjr4450 You don't think that's part of the plan, son? conservatives have spent the last 80 years trying to kill good parts of gumment and boost repressive stuff to piss citizens off so they will do myopic choices that hurt themselves and benefit the oligarchs. They tricksing y'all to burn all of the safeteys until we are in a gangsta state like the rus. You don't want to be in a place the the rus, son. you don't. Sounds good until the gangsta's take over. exchange red tape for a few troublesome folks becoming examples. Grass is not greener. We have seen this thing play out in other countries in last 50 years and it seems to...not have the promised benefits and comes with 'unexpected' societal and econ costs. KInd of the dunno wut we gots til gone. Can't always get it back and that's bad sometimes. WHen it is too late to correct, everyone's gonna see what 'class' is. Oops. They see you. brave world

[@whyarepeoplecrazy]

@@TheJagjr4450ridiculous people wanting clean air or water!

[@loathbringer]

Really annoyed I haven’t heard them talk about cutting congresses salaries! Instead it’s just talk about cutting government aides and employees and departments. That’s awful! Those are the people who actually try to do work in government! I know it would be extremely popular to cut the members of the house and senates salaries. Literally would make my week. It’s an easy dunk! Do it!

[@TB2G]

Any discussion on the budget should include raising revenue. This episode would have been a good part one, with a follow up on the IRS, raising taxes, and closing loopholes.

[@direwolf6234]

yes the reason we can't afford good things is the evasion of legit taxes and the cottage industry that supports that ...

[@cvn6555]

Straight to hell with you. We haven't ever had a revenue problem. We have a severe spending problem. A monumental spending problem. I do not want to pay any more in taxes than I already do. You seem like the type to call for higher taxes on everyone making a dollar more a year than you but are not willing to do so yourself. Who do you think should be paying more, anyway? The top earners? They already pay most of the collected taxes as it is while the people i the middle and bottom pay very little.

[@cvn6555]

@@direwolf6234 Congress writes those tax laws. Smart people use those laws to reduce their taxes. Do you pay more than you owe?

[@jordandthornburg]

Or lower taxes and get more economic activity and so more revenue. The government doesn’t deserve more of our incomes. If they want it, they need to start earning it.

[@AncientEgyptArchitecture]

To this day I still fail to understand why a specific percentage of one's income cannot be determined through statistical research as a fair tax rate, and then imposed on all citizens over the age of 18, regardless of their responsibilities, dependents, investments, property, wealth or lack of it, with no exemptions, loopholes, excuses, exceptions or " yeah but's ". Try to imagine how much that would simplify the tax code / streamline the IRS. For state taxes, same system, different rate. But I am confident there is a commenter out there eager to school me.

[@V3racious3]

Before we start cutting, first the billions and MNCs need to pay their taxes properly. Close the loopholes.

[@Ellerich800]

30% of the US' annual income must be used to pay the interest on the debt. The reason is the annual interest payment on the US debt is $1.5 trillion and the US' annual revenue from taxes, tariffs, etc is $5 trillion.

[@paulgamez2713]

To cut government agencies and their budgets and to add to their pockets. Those who complain the most pay the least in taxes and recieve subsidies. Machine efficiency and human efficiency are completely different. There is almost no error in machine efficiency, and with human efficiency is who to put the blame on when it goes haywire.

[@piratecody44]

This is GOOD! DOGE will be the best thing for the government!!! Cut MILITARY WASTE!! Cut Subsidies to BIG FARM, BIG PHARMA, BIG OIL!!!! LETS GOOO!!! If they don’t cut these….. don’t they want efficiency??

[@montrose252]

Well said! But they won't touch any of these things...

[@maureenhogan44]

😂😅

[@tyronewashington230]

Ending the wars the Biden Administration started will be the end to a big expense, so less waste. Also, it's status quo thinking to say "cuts" when it's about efficiency changes. Spending less on mailing is "cut", while choosing to email instead is a efficiency change. Public education is top down centralized, and a efficiency change would be making it bottom-up and decentralized.

[@piratecody44]

@ some good points made here 👆

[@JaneDoe-tr5xy]

cut BIG GUBBERment that takes 30 to 50% of our labor and THIS BEAST out of our economy!!! anything GUBBERment is in charge of cost$ more for less quality!!! and GUBBERment oversees Itself and why it's so incompetent and corrupt!!! growing BIGGER and more tyrannical stealing our rights, wealth and healthcare ... so IT DeCides$ who get$ and who doesn't and we the people of the middle classes get SHAT ON paying for the above and below us

[@gnomiefirst9201]

Two camps: one believes the billionaires built their own wealth while benevolently giving ppl jobs, so they don't have to pay taxes. The other believes the billionaires built wealth off of the backs of labor and government infrastructure, so they should pay taxes.

[@whyarepeoplecrazy]

Not asking them to do anything we don’t. We work full time, and have our whole lives. We pay 28% in taxes. Billionaires can too.

[@user-rr9lv9ll4x]

It's WHAT is going to be cut . It seems to me...THAT is the problem. It also seems to me ..They do not want to cut WHERE the waste actually is located..

[@c5ster]

Collecting taxes currently owed would sure help but instead they rather reduce Medicare and cut social security.

[@saywhatnow57]

I've worked in a small state government related office in an administrative type office. I would imagine the federal government is worse. But wow at how we wasted money and resources. Literally an average of 2-3 people doing the job one person could do. You can always do as much or more with less. Especially when it just brings federal workers up to the same working standards as the rest of us.

[@birdstrikes]

thanks for all the additional facts to help support your claim? Oh you don't have any.

[@kappadarwin9476]

So you are going to overwork your work force leading to high turnover rates to save money? Downsizing rarely works and the incoming admin isn't going to have the time to do all that firing by time the midterms come around.

[@svc6550]

There’s a huge recall rate on his cyber truck though, he sacrificed quality and quality control at the expense of his so-called efficiency

[@saywhatnow57]

Musk is literally the only car CEO of the last 50-80 years who managed to grow a substantial car company, something that when I was in business grad school was assumed impossible. We were actually taught that no one would ever compete with the U.S. big 3 or the 3 luxury car manufacturers, or the 3 asian car companies. And yet we have Teslas all over the place. It was never supposed to even happen.

[@whyarepeoplecrazy]

Our Tesla is riddled with issues. Nightmare car we now can’t get rid of.

[@HOSEARohrer]

I honestly think Elon Musk's XAI501x is the safest bet for long term hold, and will survive out of every other altcoins. It will get adopted in US, Ecuador, Asia, starting from Japan, and slowly spread out and gain. This is a winning coin, apart from all the technical greatness.

[@stephaniestafford9397]

You can't take your money with you to heaven.

[@adtastic1533]

I'm 100% behind this idea. Just don't know if these are the right guys to deliver a solid outcome. At the end of the day they need to convince Congress to do their job.

[@cvn6555]

Congress hasn't done this in over a hundred years. Will take actual strength and resolve from people that have no vested interest in enriching themselves or gaining permanent positions in DC. Need outsiders and Trump to make this happen.

[@MichaelBrown-q4y]

The government isn't supposed to be efficient. We have bureaucracy and redundancy in an institution that is responsible for maintaining society for a reason

[@adolfmcduck1265]

What? No more shrimp on treadmills.😥🤣

[@mattdudek5727]

“Often it doesn’t happen “? It NEVER happens!!

[@makebreakrepeat]

Maybe we can save some money in our space program contacts

[@roalddahl1623]

The money that was going to Ukraine will go to Space X?

[@ngana8755]

The NY Times is no longer relevant.

[@GeraldH-ln4dv]

Ah, yes. Because you're chosen to get all of your news from the modern equivalents of Pravda.

[@Tynrova]

​@@GeraldH-ln4dv It's just true.

[@chesterfinecat7588]

Why are you here?😂

[@bigdaddycros]

Exactly, their base is far left people born into it & not enough smarts or courage to question their looney ideology, party.

[@mickeywood3012]

I support Brian Kim for the Department of D.O.G.E. After all, all a civilized society needs is an Infrastructure to support a Tax Structure and a Tax Structure to support an Infrastructure, and a C.P.A. to keep our politicians honest, because numbers don't lie, and Brian Kim will provide Americans with the rest of the story.

[@cvn6555]

What makes you think that we have a civilized society? Many people are total animals and far too many are communists that will starve your children to maintain power.

[@DARINGalloway]

First Elon bought X and now he launched the XAI501x token this year is crazy

[@leewilliams2312]

he is with the elite fool you all will perish

[@curtissmith3194]

I’ve got an idea. Let’s put a fox in the hen house to help the hens stay safe

[@chesterfinecat7588]

Nobody knows how to cut hen house expenses than a fox. Zero is easily achievable.

[@lostcountmister7530]

Thank God Trump was able to find 14 billionaires who truly love the common folk.

[@r8chlletters]

People are not machines. We should moving away from efficiency for human pursuits and activities as machines can do these things for us. Efficiency is not an ideal worth aspiring to, in fact it is a singular exploitative goal that creates great suffering. Should we be thoughtful and judicious in our use of resources? Yes, absolutely. Should we base our nation on capitalistic economic goals straight out of early industrialization? Absolutely not.

[@JaneDoe-tr5xy]

Obviously you have never run a business nor organization ...

[@tonyfrench2574]

Oligarchs' idea of cutting government is outsourcing, to their cronies.

[@DARELLBatten]

Thank you for the announcement video for Elon Musk's XAI501x Token!!! Finally they got into crypto...can't wait to see what's next

[@davidparnell1893]

Elon, "Let them eat cake"...try not to lose your head.

[@backbay2242]

And the NYT will cheer them on.

[@curtissmith3194]

When you have a pet tiger it’s pretty until it eats your face

[@don611]

Bahahaha that is very funny and deep at the same time

[@AsifKhan-hf9zy]

if you keep firing your pet tigers every six months, you do not need to worry about your face being eaten.

[@WillieLee-xf6xd]

Elon paid 12 Billion in taxes in 2021. Tesla paid over a Billion. Musk holds the record for highest taxes paid. ❤DOGE❤

[@kimhaas7586]

And?? Even with that, and I’d like to see the returns, it’s not like he will experience even one second of hardship. It’s not about taxes. It’s about control. I didn’t vote for a megalomaniac, immature billionaire to control me and make me suffer.

[@GeraldH-ln4dv]

SpaceX has received almost $20 billion in government contracts since 2008. I'll bet not a dime of that gets cut even if Elon manages to get his way. Elon is the poster child for self-interested hypocrisy.

[@natepinson]

Elon also paid zero dollars in 2018. And, 12 bil is how much of his net worth, again? Plus, cite a source for that. There are lots of ways to do accountimg.

[@WillieLee-xf6xd]

@@natepinson cnbc 12/15/21

[@natepinson]

@@WillieLee-xf6xd OK, thanks! I really do appreciate your good faith effort, and I'll check it out. I have my own theories as to what DOGE is all about, but they may be way off base. In the meantime, you may want to look at a chart showing the value of Elon's favorite crytpocurrency, dogecoin.

[@sustainablerenewableintegr8311]

Bureaucracy creates new problems to ensure its existence is always justified

[@alemswazzu]

The New York slimes. All the the BS that's fit for propaganda.

[@birdstrikes]

look up the word propaganda once in your life.

[@alemswazzu]

@birdstrikes Russia Russia Russia ring a bell? I didn't make them hire unqualified people and also throw away their reputation. They did that all on their own.

[@GetonthebusGus126]

Will leon ask dump why is he charging secret service $750 a day to stay in one of his dumps.

[@GeraldH-ln4dv]

He dropped the price? During his first abomination of a presidency, he was charging $1100 per night per room at Mar-A-Lago for a Secret Service detail of over 30 agents, plus $2500 a weekend just for the golf carts they needed to follow him around the golf course on one of his 435 days at Mar-A-Lago out of just 1459 in office.

[@Tynrova]

So clever... not. 😂

[@chesterfinecat7588]

Efficient transfer of tax dollars to Trump so not on their hit list.

[@GeraldH-ln4dv]

It's more than that. During his first term he was charging $1100 per night per room. His Secret Service travel detail is over 30 agents, so unless they were sleeping more than 2 to a room, it was at least $16,500 per night. And he spent 400+ nights at Mar-A-Lago out of just 1461 days in office. He also charged $2500 a weekend for the golf carts they needed to follow his butt around the golf course. This was all after he promised to only charge "cost". He man is a blatant grifter.

[@cybele_m]

Of course not, lol 😂

[@victoriagrove5344]

Get the government out of our bedrooms and our doctors’ offices!

[@Bill-zp2mt]

Why all the hate toward Elon Musk. He single handedly made electric cars popular, made solar panels popular. Made free speech which is the foundation for USA and the western world available on former Twitter now X. Which is great with it's community notes. Living humble in a small house. A humble and decent human being.

[@direwolf6234]

single handed ..? only if all the gov't sponsored research hadn't been done by gov't engineers first ...

[@davidhill1911]

@@direwolf6234 what a joke.

[@cybele_m]

lol, there’s no free speech on twitter 2.0, just the selective free speech preferred by Musk and his dwindling army of subscribed keyboard warriors. Musk was born into wealth and is a product of a privileged upbringing. He used his generational wealth and privilege to immigrate to the U.S. (illegally according to his own brother) - he had enough financial security from his family and their connections to invest in the right companies at the right time, then he bullied and sued his way into positions of power while taking credit for other people’s hard work and ideas. He didn’t “single handily” do anything 😂

[@direwolf6234]

@@davidhill1911 like the internet created by defense dept with tax payer funds

[@whyarepeoplecrazy]

Thanks for joining us here on this platform, Elon. Taking a break from Twitter is definitely something you need to do more often! ❤

[@natbarmore]

2:46 «anybody who’s stood in line at the DMV» Setting aside that that’s not federal, you’ve just nailed the problem with this “efficiency” quest: efficient by what measure? Fiscal efficiency? That means fewer employees at the DMV, which means longer lines. Functional efficiency? That means more employees at the DMV, so that the lines are shorter, and probably more training (which costs more money) so that those employees can do their jobs more efficiently and cross-cover everyone else’s jobs. Those two things are in direct opposition, and always will be. It looks to me like we’ve got two people who’ve never worked in government and just assume that government _must_ be wasteful and inefficient because so much of the private sector is wasteful and inefficient. Neither of them knows enough about the inner workings of government to even know whether their assumption is correct, let alone where the alleged inefficiency is. They’ve apparently fallen for the myth that government is inherently less efficient because it lacks a profit motive, without examining the data to see if this is actually true.

[@drajdew1664]

NYT has totally lost it 😅

[@folag]

How much does the US spend maintaining 800 military bases all over the world? You can start there.

[@carolekelley23]

More power to them

[@c.k.moskal]

Why are we not talking about the companies, like Tesla, & rich who are not paying their fair share (or not paying any) taxes?

[@freekfaro5606]

In typical American fashion this Doge thing is all bluster and hot air. It's a pity that Americans are not aware of that themselves.

[@slappy8941]

Stay mad 😂😂😂

[@Monk-Amani.]

​@@slappy8941• Have you read Project 2025? Of course not.

[@JaneFleesTexas]

@@slappy8941 Stay ignorant 🙄

[@cybele_m]

Agree 💯

[@MrRhomas913]

How much can they do through the budget reconciliation process? Cannot they defund the departments?

[@cvn6555]

That is a process between the House and the Senate.

[@SlickSimulacrum]

Simple. Replace the heads of all government organizations and agencies with loyalists, then dictate commands.... They will then be followed, legal or otherwise. I suppose there really are a whole lot of dumbf*cks who still don't know what Project 2025 has in store...

[@lbr88x30]

If you have long lines at the DMV; MORE staff to help those waiting decreases the line. The more jobs you cut, the longer the line......

[@ricardodsavant2965]

The Feds don't run the DMV.

[@danielkrall6501]

In Louisiana we have ABC Title, which is a private company that has full access to the DMV systems. You're in-and-out with a license renewal or registration in less than 20 minutes. Sometimes privatization works for the consumer/user benefit.

[@tyronewashington230]

The reply's so far get it. If you're thinking efficiency is a "budget cut" your not even in the right ball park to solve the problem. Efficiency is by rethinking and redesigning to fit the realities of today's technological landscape, not just patch them up with quick budget fixes. Also, it's iteration and many peoples ideas, not one.

[@cvn6555]

That's a state issue, not Federal. And, really, you want to cite what is generally the slowest, most disinterested, rudest customer experience possible as the poster child for hiring more govt workers? They don't need more people, they need to fire them all and replace them with people that will hustle and treat people with respect.

[@natepinson]

Or, you automate it all. But, DMVs are state-run, not federal. Apples and oranges.

[@michaelcomberiate2566]

why not regulate insurance companies and allow medicare to negotiate with Pharmaceutical companies to seriously red

[@michaelcomberiate2566]

reduce prices for drugs

[@TimRogers-vv9fl]

I am Pro- D.O.G.E.!

[@birdstrikes]

you are prob broke

[@Jah.Believe]

Cannot cut benefits it belongs to the people who paid into them and are not apart of the spending budget. They are separate completely. Bush tried to do that by giving an option to put your money SSN on the stock market and Trump stole some last time by stopping feds paid under 75,000 from paying SSN and then having them pay it back later then taking that payback and reallocated it to somewhere else. Musk wants to put his AI into the government so he can make more money my opinion.

[@curtissmith3194]

Got to take people’s homes and give tax cuts to the rich

[@cvn6555]

Who is having their houses taken away to give tax cuts to anyone? There is no connection between the two on any level.

[@SlickSimulacrum]

@@cvn6555 , It's a bot... Meant to make a straw man for imbeciles.

[@kn9ioutom]

WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT THE RICH ???

[@mikeoveli1028]

What is the big deal? Two billionaires that have government contacts. They will take all of the contracts and put the money in their pocket. Oh sorry, i couldn't cut the budget.

[@chuckchambers9565]

" I've been in government 55 years, I know how to fix it " - Joe Biden

[@zaffo757]

That’s just a dumb take.

[@dennisg4053]

What planet are you on? Here on Earth the Biden Inc Fascist Regime is being evicted.

[@JaneDoe-tr5xy]

They don't need GUBBERment CONtract$ to be billionaires duh

[@mikeoveli1028]

@JaneDoe-tr5xy It helps them steal .

[@andym4695]

We could also realize that Americans and the megawealthy in particular pay fewer taxes than most other developed nations.

[@jimmyolsenband]

Yup . I'm a billionaire. I'm special y'all are poor. You owe me money... I get rich. Stop complaining, u gave a low wage job....

[@cvn6555]

Create and grow your own business. Nothing stops you in the USA. Well, maybe the same thing that keeps some people in low-paying jobs. Aversion to long hours and working hard.

[@JaneDoe-tr5xy]

ELON paid 10 BILLION in taxes ... and billionaires who are NOT GUBBERment official$ who got RICH being public servants$$ and we the people are enSLAVED to their laws$ for us to obey and pay for whilst they get a FREE pASS