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by lokar 505 days ago
Is it much more proportionate to over all budget then Google, Microsoft, Walmart, UPS, bank of America, etc?
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johnnyanmac 505 days ago
Those companies can't produce money to "pay off debts", increasing the defecit. So I'd say there's a fighting chance there.

I'm no economist nor businessman though, so I won't pretend I can answer that with confidence.

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lokar 505 days ago
Just don’t see why I should take it on faith that the US department whatever has 10X the “waste” of a big multi-national bank. Or that DOGE can improve anything.
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johnnyanmac 505 days ago
DOGE will improve everything... For billionaires. The working class is screwed.

But hey, they might lobby to finally get rid of penny production. So that's a micro-win.

I definitely wouldn't claim that the government is on a scale of 10x the waste of corporate. But the structure of government budgeting does make it easier to create more efficiency

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