Hey I agree with you on Medicare but if they had tackled Medicare fraud the media would've absolutely crucified them, much more than they already do.hokiewolf said:That's because it's all smoke and mirrors. If DOGE was a real entity, it would have first looked at Medicare/Medicare fraud. But they didn't, they went after politically expedient departments (which some of I agree with - programs that do not promote the United States mission abroad, and some I do not - gutting research grants without looking at the big picture and coming up with a plan to reduce gradually in conjunction with the universities the portions of grant funding that are potentially wasteful.jkpackfan said:You were pretty anti doge which was trying to find waste and fraud, like I said repeatedly you've gotta start somewhere. I've also posted before on the debt concern saying we need both cuts and tax increases to get us out of this mess.hokiewolf said:You guys? I don't have a team. I have repeatedly talked about the debt on these forums. It's ignored by everyone except when Cary was posting here.jkpackfan said:I agree it's definitely not good tacking on more to the monstrosity we already have but since when do you guys care about debt?hokiewolf said:Adding $3.3T in debt is quite the accomplishment!Gulfstream4 said:
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If they had taken a measured approach, and not inflated the numbers they said they were saving, then I would've been in full support. Instead, they lied and they took a fire aim ready approach to finding waste/fraud/abuse.
What they did find amounts to a rounding error in the budget. Debt won't get solved without reforming entitlements, or raising taxes significantly on everyone, which I suspect is what is going to happen in the near future.
Again, ignoring the why I thought DOGE was bad and just thinking it's for political purposes is a constant problem here. I believe in conservative principles and also keeping the US the only superpower in the world. That includes funding for things that do help other countries, research and development, and lowering entitlement spending, not getting into trade wars for zero reason other than a Presidents whim, not enacting protectionist tariffs, and for Gods sake, repeal of the Jones act.