Summary

Elon Musk claims to have saved taxpayers $105 billion, but its own figures add up to just $19 billion.

A New York Times report found DOGE falsely credited itself for long-canceled contracts, including a 2005 Coast Guard contract.

DOGE’s inexperienced staff, many tied to Musk’s companies, may be unqualified to understand complex government programs. Mistakes could be deadly, with one former USAID staffer warning tens of thousands of lives may be lost.

The Times alleged DOGE has been removing erroneous “savings” from its wall of receipts just to replace the mess-ups with new errors.

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    2 months ago

    DOGE’s inexperienced staff, many tied to Musk’s companies, may be unqualified to understand complex government programs.

    Yes AND they are doing this on purpose. Evil fucks are trying to lie to their followers who will most likely eat that shit up.

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    Cmon guys. The math adds up.

    19 billion saved for the plebians, 86 billion saved for himself.

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    I get that math is hard to some people, but every computer I’ve used has had a calculator of some sort.

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    Staff from musks companies, that are used to just spaffing their handout money up the wall, can’t figure out real budgets and contacts?

    What a fucking suprise.

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    Elon Musk claims to have saved taxpayers $105 billion

    So we’re gonna be getting all of the money he saved us back as a tax rebate, right?

    …right?

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    DOGE’s inexperienced staff, many tied to Musk’s companies, may be unqualified to understand complex government programs. Mistakes could be deadly, with one former USAID staffer warning tens of thousands of lives may be lost.

    Yeah, but are any of those lives billionaires? Then who cares? -Dogebags, probably.