Originally Posted by
Buck Rogers
Nobody (not even Doge) has said it was fraudelenty spent. They said they just can't track it to verify it. They, and the bill, would like to at least get some proper accounting of the expenditures which they are currently unable to do for $4.7T. As it is now, they are unmarked, untraceable, unlabeled and unauditable. Do you think that is a good thing?
But you sure about that number? Only like 1.7 of government spending is discretionary to begin with. So the rest is just baked in to SS/medicare/medicaid. So you’re telling me like 80% of that just nobody knows where it goes? So 80% of federal government spending is “unmarkable, untraceable, unlabeled and unaudited”?
I’d be less skeptical if you said something like 8% instead of 80%.
Nobody likes government waste. I pay six figures of taxes and don’t take advantage of any government spending, but If you’re going to post an article with “4.7 trillion” in the headline you have to be able defend such an absurd number.