Holy crap Cory @pluralistic you should run #DOGE instead of nazi-boy
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/27/beltway-bandits/
This is one HELL of a summary
But why aren't there people in authority doing this kind of savings overview already?!
Corruption?
@patrickleavy @pluralistic Well David Dayen is the one generating those ideas. @pluralistic is effectively spreading the ideas around.
Source here: https://prospect.org/economy/2025-01-27-we-found-the-2-trillion-elon-musk-doge/
David's amazing. He's @ddayen here.
@patrickleavy @pluralistic Yes, corruption - in plain sight & almost unhindered since the Reagan years...
@patrickleavy @pluralistic obviously corruption, yes
Well, there should be people in authority doing these things, BUT those are the first people to be removed when the grasping captalist establishment gets control of government.
UK, US, and elsewhere. And this is why things like HS2 in UK cost many times more than they should. Compare HS2 with the recently completed Spanish train system, for instance.
@patrickleavy @pluralistic "Campaigning on cutting fraud and profiteering would be a wildly popular way for Democrats to separate themselves from Republicans. Few Democrats are rising to the occasion, though", ends @pluralistic piece. And this is a big problem, unfortunately.
@RFancio @patrickleavy @pluralistic since enough of them are quite happy to use their positions for personal profit.
@patrickleavy I mean, *anyone* else should!