Upon arriving at the massive department that currently employs nearly 500,000 people, Lavignia was met not with bored bureaucrats lazily collecting cushy government paychecks, but with mission-driven workers who "love their jobs."
"In a sense, that makes the DOGE agenda a little bit more complicated, because if half the government took [the agency's buyout offers], then we wouldn’t have to do much more," the tech founder said. "We’d just basically use software to plug holes. But that’s not what’s happening."
Unsurprisingly, Lavignia found that things work a lot differently in the halls of government agencies than they do in Silicon Valley.
"I would say the culture shock is mostly a lot of meetings, not a lot of decisions," he remarked. "But honestly, it’s kind of fine — because the government works. It’s not as inefficient as I was expecting, to be honest. I was hoping for more easy wins."
Yes, you read that right: a guy who so believed in DOGE's efficiency mission that he chose to work there for free is admitting that the government is more efficient than Musk suggests.
https://futurism.com/doge-operative-surprise
by whatthehe11isthis
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Anyone who was on the DOGE team will be unhireable.
This is the problem with the Deep State narrative. It’s a bunch of bullshit, and even the spreaders of the bullshit run into the reality. Collecting trillions of dollars for anything — military, social security, Medicare, Medicaid — is going to be large and bureaucratic, so assuming that it’s all waste or being upheld by inefficient Deep State actors is intellectually dishonest. Makes for good sound bites at rallies, though.
Am I the only one who read this guy’s name as La-vigiana at first? Anywho, yeah what did they expect. There are a lot of things in place to prevent wastage and fraud. If they were serious about fraud and waste they would have looked at contracts the government has with contractors who up charge up the wazoo.
I think we all know that isn’t true. Ffs.
It’s almost like Reagan was lying too.
Elon: the woke virus got to this person, ignore him
This guy sounds like a moron. He’s in meetings where no one is making decisions, and he’s not making decisions and pushing the team to move faster. His missed the whole point of his job.
Well it worked fine until they stated messing it up. If the FAA doesn’t fix what Doge messed up in the ATC systems and hire back some ATCs we are going to see more in air collisions.
The MAGAhats project how their own lazy asses would behave in positions of responsibility
MAGA is just a societal level exploitation of the dunning-kruger effect… All these morons across the country are duped into believing the conservative propaganda because they know close to nothing about anything, but for some reason have a superiority complex.
But did he quit though.
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