- cross-posted to:
- hackernews
- cross-posted to:
- hackernews
Government brain drain will haunt US after DOGE abruptly terminated.
After Donald Trump curiously started referring to the Department of Government Efficiency exclusively in the past tense, an official finally confirmed Sunday that DOGE “doesn’t exist.”
Talking to Reuters, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Scott Kupor confirmed that DOGE—a government agency notoriously created by Elon Musk to rapidly and dramatically slash government agencies—was terminated more than eight months early. This may have come as a surprise to whoever runs the DOGE account on X, which continued posting up until two days before the Reuters report was published.
As Kupor explained, a “centralized agency” was no longer necessary, since OPM had “taken over many of DOGE’s functions” after Musk left the agency last May. Around that time, DOGE staffers were embedded at various agencies, where they could ostensibly better coordinate with leadership on proposed cuts to staffing and funding.
Many Americans may not realize this, but the actions of DOGE were effectively the destruction of their generational inheritance; decades and generations of taxpayer dollars to build an effective machine for doing the work of government.
That won’t be rebuilt in a month or a year or even a decade. Its multi-generational damage which has been done.
The only way to recoup losses from the damage done will be an effective 99%+ tax on income, from any source, on amounts over 10 million.
That and treason charges, followed by executions
I mean I’m all for the guillotines coming out. I think we should have brought them out on January 7th 2021 and start taking serious making things right then.
But even a modest wealth tax (like every red cent after a billion becomes the states or off with your head).
Like no amount of money can mend a broken heart? What was destroyed isn’t something you can just throw money at to fix. There was a breach of trust between the smartest people in our society (NASA, NIH, etc…) and society itself, in the sense that the elected government is a reflection of society.
You have my vote.
But just think of all the data that Elon Musk got to mine out of the government, to feed to his AI.
Won’t anyone think of the billionaires?
Yeah, maybe they shut it down once they got all the data out of it they wanted.
And the result is a bullshit machine that worships Muskrat.