I'm waiting and waiting but you keep providing the weak DNC PROPAGANDA. You remain quiet about the amazing items DOGE has found. Millions of people collecting Social Security over 100 years old, Some are over 200. USAID money going to ridiculous causes including the Taliban. $20 billion Biden was hiding! Sending condoms to Hamas who made small bombs.
The only propaganda is what you just wrote. A simple google search would give you factual information about the topics you cited. Don’t repeat what FOX tells you without first doing your own research. We don’t need to agree, but we need to discuss topics using the same basic facts.
Some reflections on comments over the past few days. 1. Access to federal government information such as financial even personal information including HIPPA, SSN and other identifying data does not require a security clearance, nor FBI vetting. It does require basic information security training, depending on agency and information handled, that can be completed in 1-2 hrs or no more than a long morning training session. There are hundreds of thousands of government personnel who have authorization, based on their duties, to access personal privacy information including financial and other personal information. This type of information is being audited by the DOGE group, which does not have means or methods to change the information only observe, coalesce and audit. Auditing financial information is almost always by a disinterested third party. This information is usually marked as FOUO or has a disclaimer at the foot of the message or document indicating that it is personal privacy info. DOGE assumed the mantle of the US Digital Service created by Obama and is an official government organization. Hiring of government personnel is generally under three categories: Competitive, Excepted and Senior Executive Service. (about 92% of federal employees are in the Competitive category. I was in the Excepted and temporarily the SES categories). The President has the authority to appoint anyone needed to advise or perform duties that he determines are needed, there are no preconditions for a direct presidential appointment. DOGE employees are in the excepted service category (appointed). There is a long history of US Presidents and some Cabinet levels in making such appointments.
2. Auditing is of course crucial to ensure that financial positioning is fair, accurate, legal and clearly authorized. Unfortunately in government it's not necessarily easily transparent. Each federal agency supposedly does some form of auditing but it's doubtful because there is not a uniform standard government wide on presenting audits. Try and find US government audits in this day of information technology. You can find federal audits but it's not easy to get from here to there and even more, the data is not presented in a way that can allow easy useful recalculation or reexamination. This is a transparency problem and a way to 'hide the ball". It is also the door for maligned activities, hidden side bar economic activities. graft corruption and abuse. DOGE is a good effort at "looking under the hood" of government spending and operations. DOGE itself and the audits are in my opinion unquestionably legal. Personnel matters and adjustments, including reductions in force, may have wider requirements than what DOGE can properly execute, but it does give direction toward efficiency.
3. No matter what part of the political spectrum you land on - democrat, socialist, communist, republican, libertarian, antifa-anarchist or whiskey-rebellion hold out, there's one thing that looms over the entire playing field - our national debt and it's seemingly uncontrollable growth threatens to crash our entire set of economic foundations. Our families, our children, our grand-children and their hopes, dreams and opportunities are at risk due to proliferate squandering and mismanagement of our national expenditures. DOGE is not the solution but it should provide another wake up call and direction toward gaining controls over how we spend, what we spend on, what we really need, what makes the body stronger and the bottom line. I believe the democrats have completely misread this on the populist level and the deeper economic level, but it's one way to weed out those who want to continue towards economic Armageddon without taking a hard look at the direction of our nation. The fake hype and propaganda be damned, there's been so much of it across so many levels it's just background noise. It's only a start and yet we're seeing opposition to transparency and real-time accounting.
4.Typing space won't be able to add the moral decline that goes hand in hand with the economic decline. How do you look past the government funding of drag queens in libraries for our elementary school children? How do you see federal government funding of the Kennedy Center presenting "family" LBGT indoctrination via the arts? Some argue it's small amount, but it's more likely the rot that goes beyond small events and into the larger body.
Thank you for your response. I defer to your expertise on points 1 and 2. My daughter is a federal agent, and she had to go through an extensive vetting process before she was hired. As we have learned in the last 24 hours, these systems are very complicated and they are easy to misinterpret if you do not have experience with the system. It is unfortunate that DOGE misunderstood the SSA system and said millions of people over 100 were getting SSA benefits, which is not close to being true.
I'm waiting and waiting but you keep providing the weak DNC PROPAGANDA. You remain quiet about the amazing items DOGE has found. Millions of people collecting Social Security over 100 years old, Some are over 200. USAID money going to ridiculous causes including the Taliban. $20 billion Biden was hiding! Sending condoms to Hamas who made small bombs.
Gee and the head of SSA resigns. Guilty Jan. Take your blinders off and realize you been brainwashed
The only propaganda is what you just wrote. A simple google search would give you factual information about the topics you cited. Don’t repeat what FOX tells you without first doing your own research. We don’t need to agree, but we need to discuss topics using the same basic facts.
Some reflections on comments over the past few days. 1. Access to federal government information such as financial even personal information including HIPPA, SSN and other identifying data does not require a security clearance, nor FBI vetting. It does require basic information security training, depending on agency and information handled, that can be completed in 1-2 hrs or no more than a long morning training session. There are hundreds of thousands of government personnel who have authorization, based on their duties, to access personal privacy information including financial and other personal information. This type of information is being audited by the DOGE group, which does not have means or methods to change the information only observe, coalesce and audit. Auditing financial information is almost always by a disinterested third party. This information is usually marked as FOUO or has a disclaimer at the foot of the message or document indicating that it is personal privacy info. DOGE assumed the mantle of the US Digital Service created by Obama and is an official government organization. Hiring of government personnel is generally under three categories: Competitive, Excepted and Senior Executive Service. (about 92% of federal employees are in the Competitive category. I was in the Excepted and temporarily the SES categories). The President has the authority to appoint anyone needed to advise or perform duties that he determines are needed, there are no preconditions for a direct presidential appointment. DOGE employees are in the excepted service category (appointed). There is a long history of US Presidents and some Cabinet levels in making such appointments.
2. Auditing is of course crucial to ensure that financial positioning is fair, accurate, legal and clearly authorized. Unfortunately in government it's not necessarily easily transparent. Each federal agency supposedly does some form of auditing but it's doubtful because there is not a uniform standard government wide on presenting audits. Try and find US government audits in this day of information technology. You can find federal audits but it's not easy to get from here to there and even more, the data is not presented in a way that can allow easy useful recalculation or reexamination. This is a transparency problem and a way to 'hide the ball". It is also the door for maligned activities, hidden side bar economic activities. graft corruption and abuse. DOGE is a good effort at "looking under the hood" of government spending and operations. DOGE itself and the audits are in my opinion unquestionably legal. Personnel matters and adjustments, including reductions in force, may have wider requirements than what DOGE can properly execute, but it does give direction toward efficiency.
3. No matter what part of the political spectrum you land on - democrat, socialist, communist, republican, libertarian, antifa-anarchist or whiskey-rebellion hold out, there's one thing that looms over the entire playing field - our national debt and it's seemingly uncontrollable growth threatens to crash our entire set of economic foundations. Our families, our children, our grand-children and their hopes, dreams and opportunities are at risk due to proliferate squandering and mismanagement of our national expenditures. DOGE is not the solution but it should provide another wake up call and direction toward gaining controls over how we spend, what we spend on, what we really need, what makes the body stronger and the bottom line. I believe the democrats have completely misread this on the populist level and the deeper economic level, but it's one way to weed out those who want to continue towards economic Armageddon without taking a hard look at the direction of our nation. The fake hype and propaganda be damned, there's been so much of it across so many levels it's just background noise. It's only a start and yet we're seeing opposition to transparency and real-time accounting.
4.Typing space won't be able to add the moral decline that goes hand in hand with the economic decline. How do you look past the government funding of drag queens in libraries for our elementary school children? How do you see federal government funding of the Kennedy Center presenting "family" LBGT indoctrination via the arts? Some argue it's small amount, but it's more likely the rot that goes beyond small events and into the larger body.
Rollie,
Thank you for your response. I defer to your expertise on points 1 and 2. My daughter is a federal agent, and she had to go through an extensive vetting process before she was hired. As we have learned in the last 24 hours, these systems are very complicated and they are easy to misinterpret if you do not have experience with the system. It is unfortunate that DOGE misunderstood the SSA system and said millions of people over 100 were getting SSA benefits, which is not close to being true.
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