Devil's advocate on DOGE.....what about the pork barrel private contractors?

[justoffal]

Damn this is a good article! And spot on too...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/06/trump-federal-workers-contractors/

This is where the Administration is going to face the firey gauntlet. Congress critters get their supplemental piggy bank allowances from passing out fat contracts to connected businesses in their states. NOW THIS IS GOING TO GET REALLY INTERESTING. If the new DOGE simply targets Government employees and totally ignores this elephant....well what can I say?

 

[JoeMoma]

I guess we will have to wait and see. DOGE hasn't even gotten started yet.

 

[Rawley]

Damn this is a good article! And spot on too...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/06/trump-federal-workers-contractors/

This is where the Administration is going to face the firey gauntlet. Congress critters get their supplemental piggy bank allowances from passing out fat contracts to connected businesses in their states. NOW THIS IS GOING TO GET REALLY INTERESTING. If the new DOGE simply targets Government employees and totally ignores this elephant....well what can I say?

No question they will go after federal contracts.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

all of the climate change boondoggle spending should be cut

 

[Zincwarrior]

No question they will go after federal contracts.

From Twit itself. Look how the debt rose year after year under Trump 1. You think thats going to be different in Trump 2?

 

[progressive hunter]

From Twit itself. Look how the debt rose year after year under Trump 1. You think thats going to be different in Trump 2?

this time he wont have 2nd term to worry about or deep state drones whispering in his ear,,

so lets wait and see,,

 

[Zincwarrior]

this time he wont have 2nd term to worry about or deep state drones whispering in his ear,,

so lets wait and see,,

His proposals. His Congress.

Here is what will happen. Trump will propose a tax bill cutting rates for billionaires. A few miles of wall will be built. A few raids will be made. He will propose cutting some minor department. Then he will declare victory and play golf.

He is literally already trying to do that.

 

[Rawley]

From Twit itself. Look how the debt rose year after year under Trump 1. You think thats going to be different in Trump 2?

Yup. He's learned. And he's a lame duck. The Swamp is going to be in for quite a shock.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Yup. He's learned. And he's a lame duck. The Swamp is going to be in for quite a shock.

Lame ducks have no effective power to move legislation.

 

[Rawley]

Lame ducks have no effective power to move legislation.

Public pressure will be enormous. Scumbag Democrats will party line oppose, but any Repub that stands in the way is going to get cremated and primaries out of a job.

 

[1srelluc]

Lame duck or no, Trump has Vance waiting to take over.

Even if Vance is defeated in a primary fight, you are never gonna get a RINO or neocon again like, say Nikki Haley.....Maybe DeSantis or the like.

The smart thing for Trump to do would be to walk away a few months after the midterms and let Vance take over.

Vance, with better than a year of POTUS under his belt would be very hard to primary out.

Just call it a last FU to the deep state RINOs.

 

[1srelluc]

Neutered agency, neutered contractors.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Public pressure will be enormous.

For the micro seconds before the public realizes they are the ones being harmed.
Name a program and you immediately name the people who are going to do everything they can to keep that program. Left, right, it doesn't matter. Musk and Trump are not running again but Congress is.

 

[Rawley]

For the micro seconds before the public realizes they are the ones being harmed.

How are the public being harmed by eliminating fraud waste and abuse in the Federal gvt?

Name a program and you immediately name the people who are going to do everything they can to keep that program. Left, right, it doesn't matter. Musk and Trump are not running again but Congress is.

And those are the Repubs we primary. Your Dem creatures, we publicly shame, not that they are capable of shame. .

 

[Woodznutz]

Damn this is a good article! And spot on too...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/06/trump-federal-workers-contractors/

This is where the Administration is going to face the firey gauntlet. Congress critters get their supplemental piggy bank allowances from passing out fat contracts to connected businesses in their states. NOW THIS IS GOING TO GET REALLY INTERESTING. If the new DOGE simply targets Government employees and totally ignores this elephant....well what can I say?

I not sure they realize how many alligators are lurking in the Washington swamp.

 

[Woodznutz]

No question they will go after federal contracts.

Federal contracts can reduce the debt and bolster the economy, if the government pays for them in cash.

 

[Zincwarrior]

How are the public being harmed by eliminating fraud waste and abuse in the Federal gvt?

You have to cut programs. So again, name me a program to cut and you name the people who will fight you for that program including lobbying COngress.

And those are the Repubs we primary.

Good luck.

Your Dem creatures, we publicly shame, not that they are capable of shame. .

It would be nice if once, just once, someone disagreed without insulting the other poster.

 

[Rawley]

You have to cut programs. So again, name me a program top cut and you name the people who will fight you for that program including lobbying COngress.

Department of Education. Teacher's Union. Every single Dem will oppose.

 

[Rawley]

It would be nice if once, just once, someone disagreed without insulting the other poster.

?? You're personally insulted that I called Dem congresscritters "creatures"? WTF?

 

[Zincwarrior]

Department of Education. Teacher's Union. Every single Dem will oppose.

The Dept of Education is the primary administrator for school and individual financial aid and funds to state schools.
1. That represents 8% of all state school funding.
2. On an even larger basis, it administers post K-12 student financial aid programs and loans.

If you get rid of it you have to replace it immediately with something else to administer that, unless you want to get rid of Federal aid to state school and post-secondary aid to students. If you want to do that, you'd better bring friends. A whole lot of friends.

Can you make it more efficient? Sure. thats not getting you 1/3 of the US budget.