Monday, May 5, 2025

DOGE discovers

DOGE leader Elon Musk gets some staff together once a week at 10 p.m. They each answer the question, "what did you get done this week?" A media guy got to sit in on one of these meetings and discovered more absurdities that our taxes have been paying for:

  • Investigation found that a $4 billion covid fund was used to rent stadiums for parties, with no explanation. Correction: now any drawdown must be identified as to purpose and receipts must be uploaded.
  • Alpaca farming in Peru
  • Marketing of peas in Guatamala
  • GAO also found that only 10-15% of the money for these causes was actually getting to the stated destination. 
  • So it's possible that "no one got a sex change in Guatemala" (a worthless expense discovered months ago)
  • Grants may go to a cause that sounds good theoretically, like "save the baby pandas," but no evidence is forthcoming that any panda was actually saved. 

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