DOGE Catch-All | RIP DOGE

[StrangePackage]

 

[gtyellowjacket]

Breaking that spending increase down a little further, most of the increase, almost all the increase, is more social security and Medicare spending. That's to be expected as we get more old people. There is also a nontrivial increase in interest payments on the debt.

The discretionary spending has gone down a bit as DOGE did cut a fair amount of programs and government got shutdown so I'm sure contracts got pushed, but when you add in the new defense outlays, total non entitlement spending has gone up slightly. So I'm not sure it's really fair to call DOGE a failure as much as they spent those DOGE savings on defense increases (and immigration enforcement) that I would argue we don't really need.

 

[TangledUpInBlue06]

So I'm not sure it's really fair to call DOGE a failure as much as they spent those DOGE savings on defense increases (and immigration enforcement) that I would argue we don't really need.

That's reallocation, not savings, right?

 

[dukeman92]

Insane.

 

[korgguy1971]

CHAINSAW!!!!!!

Anyone even remotely paying attention new that was never going to go well.

 

[lightbluenc]

They stole all our data, and most likely covered any election interference tracks. /tinfoilhat

 

[korgguy1971]

He looks like a middle-aged Max Headroom.

 

[C-Money]

He looks like a middle-aged Max Headroom.

Hey now.

 

[finesse]

He looks like a middle-aged Max Headroom.

Max Headcase?

 

[gtyellowjacket]

That's reallocation, not savings, right?

Yeah but I'm not sure DOGE was the one calling for that reallocation. Their mandate was savings by eliminating unnecessary government waste. They knew they were going to cut too deep in some areas and those were the areas that we're going to be called out in Twitter posts but overall, I think they got some good results. And those results were wasted because savings were spent on different government waste.

 

[finesse]

Yeah but I'm not sure DOGE was the one calling for that reallocation. Their mandate was savings by eliminating unnecessary government waste. They knew they were going to cut too deep in some areas and those were the areas that we're going to be called out in Twitter posts but overall, I think they got some good results. And those results were wasted because savings were spent on different government waste.

Any time you do that much random stuff, you're likely to get some good results. I'm not so sure they did but, if they did, I'm pretty damned sure what they did is not repeatable or worth the damage and disruption it caused in other ways. Think of it as ROI. This experiment sucked.

 

[TangledUpInBlue06]

Yeah but I'm not sure DOGE was the one calling for that reallocation. Their mandate was savings by eliminating unnecessary government waste. They knew they were going to cut too deep in some areas and those were the areas that we're going to be called out in Twitter posts but overall, I think they got some good results. And those results were wasted because savings were spent on different government waste.

I don't think we've even begun to see the cost of cuts to things like USAID.

 

[gtyellowjacket]

I don't think we've even begun to see the cost of cuts to things like USAID.

I'm not sure either. It might be stepping over dollars to get dimes or it might be real cuts of government waste. Its mostly likely both.

 

[rodoheel]

They knew they were going to cut too deep in some areas and those were the areas that we're going to be called out in Twitter posts but overall, I think they got some good results.

Which good results?