Do you remember Eegore when I said I thought you could cut 50% of the government and within a little while, everyone would adjust and be fine? You disagreed.

The recent debacle in Minnesota where at least 18 billion was stolen is perhaps the tip of the iceberg.

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/its-not-just-minnesota-or-just-daycares

Do you remember Eegore when I said I thought you could cut 50% of the government and within a little while, everyone would adjust and be fine? You disagreed.

The recent debacle in Minnesota where at least 18 billion was stolen is perhaps the tip of the iceberg.


 I still disagree.  My understanding is we were talking about Government staff specifically and there's no way we could reduce to those levels and even  have the Department of Energy sustain for more than a day or two.

 Less than 1% of US Government staff could cost the US taxpayer far more than 18 billion.  The dollar cost of fraud is not indicative of how many staff are needed to run efficiently.   Reduction isn't the answer to fraud, if anything lack of oversight due to staff reduction will cause more problems.  

 I just got back from a Naval base that builds submarines.  They are drastically behind because they can't get enough qualified welders/electricians, and 16% of them were let go by DOGE.  Hegseth stopped all cost of living from March - Nov for all blue-collar workers in the wage-grade scale so they weren't able to hire one person.  

 There's no way with the level of dysfunction at just 15-10% that the US would produce even a single submarine with a 50% reduction in staff.  You could shovel the full 18 billion to that Naval base, double it, then double that, and there still would be no more submarines if staff were reduced by just 30%.