All_Pro_Bills Posted December 2 Posted December 2 On 11/29/2024 at 8:53 PM, 4th&long said: Turns out doge has no authority. They have to go thru congress. Absolutely. They will identify "waste" and then any programs and spending targeted for removal needs to be eliminated from the annual budget request and spending bills and passed by Congress.
B-Man Posted December 6 Posted December 6 (edited) DOGE at the state, county and municipal level by Bill Andersen “As above, so below” There are many more swamps to drain than the huge one in Washington DC. Every state, county and municipal government agency has one. These agencies are riddled with inefficient work processes and entrenched slackers. People interact with these bureaucracies far more often than the federal ones. So why not apply DOGE principles to these bureaucracies? It is fitting and proper to do so. For example every day normal Americans go to the DMV and Post Office and come away feeling like victims. Routinely there is a line at a post office with ten people in it being waited on by one employee. Yet you can hear several employees hiding in the back scurrying around and doing everything they can to avoid having to interact with customers. They get away with it because they face no disciplinary actions. They get their lavish pay, benefits and retirement regardless of how much (or little) they do in a day. And the DMV is even worse. The three-toed sloths that work there are known to be the slowest living organisms on the planet. Hell Disney has even made an animated movie about it called Zootopia. Even a rock on the ground moves faster than they do. And their utter contempt for providing even the minimum amount of customer service is apparent every time anyone has to deal with them. The dmv folks and the post office are the ones we see most often. There are many more state, county and municipal bureaucrats that have fewer customer interactions and are more adept at doing little or nothing. Try getting a building permit for example. It is obvious they will get to you at their convenience and not a moment sooner. They look upon you with contempt for interrupting their day. Call them up and it always goes to voice mail. Leave a message and you might hear back from them two weeks later, if they call you back at all. Identify and eliminate the inefficient, ineffective work processes. Make sure all employees are held accountable to high standards of customer care. We are all Elons. We are all Viveks. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4282893/posts Edited December 6 by B-Man 1 1
Tiberius Posted December 6 Posted December 6 On 11/12/2024 at 9:26 PM, Biden is Mentally Fit said: Rather than lump everything into a MUSK thread perhaps it’s good to have one specifically for the lefties to whine about DOGE activities. I ❤️ DOGE. It will probably cost me my job along the way but that’s beside the point. Should ethanol be a target?
Tiberius Posted December 6 Posted December 6 So ethanol stays, I guess. Conservative big government at work fleecing you, the consumer. 1
AlBUNDY4TDS Posted December 6 Posted December 6 9 minutes ago, Tiberius said: So ethanol stays, I guess. Conservative big government at work fleecing you, the consumer. Hahaha your a **** for the party of elites but ok.
The Frankish Reich Posted December 7 Posted December 7 2 hours ago, BillsFanNC said: So apparently we elected Ron Paul after all. It's the Triumph of the Loony Libertarians!
B-Man Posted December 8 Posted December 8 Can Anyone Explain to Me Why We Still Need the TSA? By Ward Clark When the Transportation Security Administration was founded in 2001, in response to the 9/11 terror attacks, Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD) famously stated, "You can’t professionalize if you don’t federalize.” While that statement, especially given the benefit of hindsight is giggle-inducing, today's shows of security theater at the nation's airports are making Senator Daschle's remarks even more nonsensical. {snip} I've often wondered why we need the TSA. Previously, security screening was handled by the airports and airlines. Yes, on 9/11, there were failures in screening, as the terrorists were allowed to board carrying box cutters. There were also failures in immigration screening and in many more areas, but we might remember: Hindsight is always 20-20. It's unclear as to why we need to have an entire federal administration to do this when the airports and airlines handled it very well for many decades — and there's no reason that we can't have certain legal guidelines security contractors should abide by, like "Don't let people carry box cutters on to airplanes." Some of the post-9/11 security measures make some sense. Locking cockpit doors is one of them. But too much of what goes on in our airports is not security; it is security theater, a theater that at times requires the "random" frisking of little old ladies and toddlers. Maybe Elon and Vivek need to add TSA to the DOGE list — for reform, at the very least. https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/12/08/can-anyone-explain-to-my-why-we-still-need-the-tsa-n2182952
SoonerBillsFan Posted December 8 Posted December 8 On 12/7/2024 at 8:44 AM, BillsFanNC said: We need to cut 70-80% of that spending. Let other nations start footing more of the bill.
letsgoteam Posted December 8 Posted December 8 On 12/7/2024 at 9:44 AM, BillsFanNC said: Ron Paul the OG DOGE! 1
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