This is not about efficiency. Giving federal employees purchase cards saves money - it reduces layers of paperwork and red tape.
Imagine running a business where you stopped employees from purchasing anything. The goal is to shut down government by other means.
Imagine running a business where you stopped employees from purchasing anything. The goal is to shut down government by other means.
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NEW: DOGE put a $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards. Employees say overspending and fraud in the program was exceedingly rare. www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
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The US military is the biggest user of this
We SOLD email services. To all of our clients, including the one whose headquarters is in Vatican City.
- More email volume the day before and the day after
- Unanswered email from clients on the "smoke-out" day
- Humongous express-mail charges
Eventually the company found actual work for them to do, which means many left soon after.
a. You're getting fired anyway
b. They already fired the people actively in charge of finding true fraud
Elon’s a moron
Donald, Elon (or assigned minion) get to decide who buys what.
Patronage system then hands out contracts.
It might be fun to know to put this in context.
America is toast.
Both of those things will make work for the government more miserable.
This really is an orchestrated effort to decapitate and incapacitate the government.
It's certainly not going to be me.
I run a printing office. Who is supposed to pay for ink and paper?
It's certainly not going to be me.
Musk really is not good at this stuff is he?
It's infuriating watching these clowns swan around talking about eliminating waste and inefficiency and seeing both our media AND elected officials embrace that framing.
Efficiency my ass
You can't persecute no one.
The cards are for the government, not the employees.
For things like DRINKING WATER AND LUNCH FOR FIREFIGHTERS WHEN THEY'RE FIGHTING FIRES.
Making the limit $1 effectively bans gov't travel.
OR
You can get prior permission, and complete a bunch of forms. Then the cost includes plus your time and the time of the person processing the forms. A $50 purchase now costs $200.
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Efficiency
GAO reports show little evidence of fraud. But even in such cases, the abusers are still federal employees, so it is very easy to get the money back.
Its rare. The people get caught. They go to prison.
1 Start trade war
2 Say sentence with no known words
3 Declare war on close allie
4 Say he has "love affair" with psychopathic dictator
5 Crap his pants
6 Explain windmills cause cancer
7 Destroy more democracy
8 Say Arnold Palmer has big penis
9 Grab pussy or flag
He is destroying the agencies that regulate him.
Every move he makes has the effect of transferring wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich.