KCFlyer
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Of course it is. But we had a man wielding a chainsaw, celebrating the upheaval he caused in people's lives by eliminating their jobs. And convincing you and half of America that he was on the road to a trillion dollars in savings. Indeed, the 'savings' page of the DOGE reflected a trillion dollars in savings and it showed that for over a month. If one asked for proof - they are given an incomprehensible "wall of receipts".
After all of that hoopla, he has saved less than one month's interest on the debt. The bulk of his "savings" came from laying off staff...and that was done in such a haphazard way that many of those jobs were actually needed. In many cases, we actually had to spend more money to rectify the problems brought on with the chainsaw approach.
But those are big numbers. Let's try something more realistic...you have been tasked by your boss to save $100,000 from your departments budget. In the weekly status meetings you strutted like a peacock and said this was easy and you may well save twice that amount. Then you rush thru your department, cutting and slashing and boasting and turning in your weekly "5 things" report with very optimistic numbers. At the end of the month, at the budget meeting, it comes your time to report your savings. And you report $3,400. Are your bosses happy, and was it worth the upheaval you created in your office?
