From: tye syding <bn@wy.no>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Both Presidents Obama And Biden Said They Wanted To End Waste
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:56:47 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:13:22 -0800
Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> On 2025-02-21 08:38, pothead wrote:
> > On 2025-02-21, AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> The key difference between DOGE and past efforts to address
> >> government mismanagement is that DOGE is focused on doing
> >> something about it.
> >>
> >> Obama and Biden talked a good game and NOTHING ever came of it.
> >>
> >> "From the day I took office, one of the commitments I made to the
> >> American people, was that we would do a better job here in
> >> Washington, in rooting out wasteful spending."
> >>
> >> Trump?
> >>
> >> No.
> >>
> >> Obama.
> >>
> >> The Campaign To Cut Waste
> >> https://youtu.be/5hpd61WfMvk
> >>
> >> President Obama Signs Order To Cut Waste And Promote Efficiency
> >> https://youtu.be/ulZ-dIj0tkA
> >>
> >> Obama Once Fought Government Waste-Now Deems Attack Musk and Trump
> >> For Doing The Same! https://youtu.be/9dbZRmyvWMI
> >>
> >> Vice President Biden Hosts "Campaign to Cut Waste" Cabinet Meeting
> >> https://youtu.be/AYnHRu-l5fU
> >>
> >> Even Biden Was "Pro-DOGE" Way Back In 2011
> >> https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vH2dAqoEF-Q?feature=share
> >>
> >> What Biden's "Campaign To Cut Waste" Says About How He Would
> >> Manage Government The Former Vice President Has Called For A "New
> >> Culture of Efficiency" At Federal Agencies
> >> https://www.govexec.com/management/2019/04/what-bidens-campaign-cut-waste-says-about-how-he-would-manage-government/156560/
> >>
> >
> > And so did Clinton and Gore.
> > They actually did a decent job of it as well.
> >
>
> And to do a decent job they spent some time looking at the problem
> before making changes.
Did they?
That can't have taken too damned long as they WERE part of the problem!
> Not like Musk's chaotic farce where they're now scrambling to re-hire
> some people they fired.
Action vs. inaction.
When a goobermint gets this bloated it mandates drastic downsizing.
Plenty of time to rehire as needed, after assessing the impacts.