XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: NoBody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 06:54:18 -0500, NoBody  wrote:   
      
   >On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:09:37 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.   
   >Sherman) wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>>>>>>> | The Failed DOGE Experiment Ends With Whimper, Not Bang   
   >>   
   >> |   
   >> | Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency said it   
   >> | made more than 29,000 cuts to the federal government --   
   >> | slashing billion-dollar contracts, canceling thousands of   
   >> | grants and pushing out civil servants.   
   >> |   
   >> | But the group did not do what Mr. Musk said it would:   
   >> | reduce federal spending by $1 trillion before October. On   
   >> | DOGE's watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It   
   >> | went up.   
   >> |   
   >> | How is that possible?   
   >> |   
   >> | One big reason, according to a New York Times analysis:   
   >> | Many of the largest savings that DOGE claimed turned out to   
   >> | be wrong.   
   >> | ...   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>    --bks   
   >   
   >Paywalled crap stolen by Bradley noted.   
   >   
   >Mandatory spending on social programs (which DOGE could not touch) was   
   >responsible for the increase.   
   >   
   >You fraud.   
      
   And the fraud has run away.   
      
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