Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk's DOGE are expected to produce no savings
Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk's DOGE are expected to produce no savings
Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump’s administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s data shows.
"... And will in fact cost more money in the long term when it's discovered that whatever it was that was canceled, was in fact necessary, and now runs at a premium due to fucking around."
The ones the article mentions are obligated, so they have been or must be paid. Time will tell on the 60%.
And also needed to buyout the contracts resulting in additional losses
It's almost as if efficiency and cost savings weren't actually the point.
It never has been.
For some reason people just took Republicans word that their issue was taxes paying for stuff.
They just don't want the stuff, they already pay essentially nothing in taxes, but they still want to burn the government down because without a government the oligarchs control everything.
Correct. I'm sure what they're doing has a word, but all I can conjure with my nin-native English vocabulary is "Whatever the opposite of virtue signaling is".
I tried to look for antonyms of Virtue, but I couldn't a suitable one.
You expect vulture captialists see that? They think spending money now is a waste when they can have money now. And when it all comes crashing down? They'll swoop in and buy up whats left.
What I've been reinforcing to the conservatives in my life, with reasonable success, is that "tax payer savings" right now is like a mail-in-rebate we haven't gotten yet. Say you paid $1000 for a new TV with a $200 MIR. You paid full price, no matter what the MIR sticker is, you haven't saved the $200 until the $200 is back in your wallet. If you never get the MIR, you saved nothing.
If we're still playing full price for taxes, and we are, our taxpayer savings is ZERO no matter what DOGE says.
Obviously missing the big picture but at least I'm getting them riled up against the current administration, and it's been easier than I thought it would be.
I also like the analogy of: I saved my family a bunch of money by not paying the mortgage. The administration has no regard for the adverse consequences of their actions.
It's not about efficiency. It's about control, punishment and sabotage.
I'd bet the majority of it (if not the entirety) will cost more than it saves in the long run regardless.
Just like he fucked up Twitter
This new regime is like a stack of children in a trenchcoat pretending to be an adult so they can buy fireworks. Faced with an array of Chesterton’s Fences between them and infinity sweets, they tear down all the fences. Why do we have to pay all these people? Booooring. What are all these stupid regulations for? Tear them up! No way these things might just exist to protect the government and country from much bigger costs later.
The IRS workers they fired are definitely going to result in negative "savings".