Bill Gates admits many government agencies need budget slashed by 15% – but rejects Musk DOGE’s widespread cuts

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1. Blame the government agencies not the corporate welfare and handouts or military complex.

2. Never trust a billionaire. No wonder his wife divorced him.

3. Governments slosh in money and perpetually take and ask for more. They are mired in inertia and corruption. The last people you want in charge is the Nazi party.

4. Always cuts. They also appear to be under the delusion governments are businesses. 

   So fucking dumb. Billionaires all think they are geniuses.

5. I want to thank Mr Gates for reminding everyone he’s a giant piece of shit.

   No amount of charity washing changes that.

   Remember when Billy boy was gonna give away all his money? Pepperidge farms remembers.

6. I somehow doubt the government is using the most efficient technology to optimize their jobs.

7. U.S. government spending is up 48% in five years tied to only 35% in growth. And that’s while we’re still not on the wrong end of the higher rates with average debt in the low 3% range.

   A lot of people are on the receiving end of that enormous spending faucet, so this is going to have a huge and very vocal crowd of opponents , but the math is math.

   If that spending-to-growth was 1:1 we wouldn’t even have to bother with anecdotes such as whether you feel you receive more federal benefits for the nearly 50% increase in spending compared to five years ago.

8. Whenever people talk about a gov’t agency, DMV for example, they complain about the efficiency… but when rich people say they are inefficient and should be optimized, people cry.

   It’s like back in the day when TSA paid $300k for an app that showed a random left or right arrow. Something they could have hired an intro CS major student to make.

   I support the corporate raider mindset on the gov’t. A lot of waste, go in and clean it up. Pass the savings on after. Either use the money more effectively or reduce taxes though.

9. It’s likely kind of true. There’s always going to be bad employees that just do nothing. The problem is who decides who gets let go.

   Trumps version is a brain drain. It’s not about ability or performance, it’s about pain, loyalty, if you are the enemy, etc.

   Imo if lay offs are used to cut spending you likely haven’t got a clue how to run a health business and shouldn’t be in charge.

   They should be used to cut bad employees and how you hurt the business should be considered when you do it.

   Now that I say that trump like knows he is hurting the country and that’s the point.

10. How the hell does he know? Has he sat down and read all the audits and conducted cost analysis to determine where better efficiencies may take place? You know what? I think Microsoft should be slashed by 35%. Why? Why not?

11. I don’t think anyone, left right or center, will deny that there is extensive waste in government spending. The problem is that musk and Co are not going to make these cuts in good faith

12. Start with the Military and TAX the church.

13. Always blaming the government but *never* blaming the lack of taxes that corporations or the 1%ers pay

14. Gates and Musk are right. Many of us know how inefficient the DMV, IRS, etc are. Then look at County services and it’s the same inefficient, when’s my smoke break, lazy mentality. Of course there are those that work hard, but they are often blasted by their colleagues for making them look bad.

    Look at Greece as an example.

15. If you aren’t going to cut military, medicare, or social security then you aren’t going to make a dent.

16. Microsoft and Gates have a long history of trying to extract economic rents. The extractive institutions are starting to out way the inclusive institutions. Discussion about debt and spending, that don’t address economic rents are almost entirely a distraction.

17. Government spending props up the productive economy. Government spending on US goods and services is a good thing, that money trickles back through the productive economy, we need more government spending for an economic boost.

    What we need to do is tax billionaire’s wealth, they are dragons sitting on piles of gold, especially those billionaires who think they should have a say in how things are run.

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