Video: Rand Paul’s Perfect Response to Joe Scarborough’s ‘Scam’ Criticism of DOGE—Absolute Chef’s K

[American Girl]

Excerpt:
The announcement of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under Donald Trump’s administration has sent waves across Washington, with conservatives praising the initiative and Democrats scrambling to discredit it. With Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy at the helm, the goal of DOGE is clear: dismantle bloated bureaucracy, slash wasteful spending, and bring accountability back to federal agencies. Naturally, this triggered MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who called DOGE a “scam” and insinuated it would target Social Security and Medicare.


What doge will expose when they reveal what the Government wastes money on will blow the normies minds

Birds on cocaine is a great start...




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[The_Reader_David]

I, for one, am sick to death of basic science research being packaged to sound absurd and held up as prime examples of government waste.  The prime examples of waste in science funding is the diversion of money that should be funding basic scientific research, even projects that sound silly to laymen, to funding DEI-based programs, and trust me, the NSF, NIH, NIMH,... are wasting a lot of money on DEI, and have been even before it got that acronym. 

And science funding is a drop in the bucket compared to waste caused by an outdated system of military procurement that primarily benefits large defense contractors, rather than our war-fighting capability. And then there's the waste represented by multiple layers of poverty-alleviation programs, which Charles Murray in his book In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State showed cost more than a $1200/mo universal basic income, plus universal catastrophic health insurance (not pre-paid health care, just insurance that would keep anyone from being backrupted by medical bills) would cost.  (Note:  Those two, and only those two social programs -- a UBI and universal state-provide catastrophic health insurance -- were advocated by Friedrich Hayek, one of the great free-market economists of all time, and author the searing critique of socialism, The Road to Serfdom.) 

[roamer_1]

Shrink government with yet another bureau...

 

[HikerGuy83]

Elon....bring a big hatchet and a 24" chainsaw.

[verga]

I, for one, am sick to death of basic science research being packaged to sound absurd and held up as prime examples of government waste.  The prime examples of waste in science funding is the diversion of money that should be funding basic scientific research, even projects that sound silly to laymen, to funding DEI-based programs, and trust me, the NSF, NIH, NIMH,... are wasting a lot of money on DEI, and have been even before it got that acronym. 
astrophic health insurance -- were advocated by Friedrich Hayek, one of the great free-market economists of all time, and author the searing critique of socialism, The Road to Serfdom.)

Part of the problem is that far too many of these programs serve no other purpose than to keep people on the public teat. If the research was genuinely worthwhile they can get private funding from foundations, or businesses that would benefit from it. flat screen Televisions are a perfect example. A number of manufacturers approached Bush senior and asked him for money to fund the research. His response was that they could pay for it themselves. Couple of years later, we have flat screens.     

[The_Reader_David]

Part of the problem is that far too many of these programs serve no other purpose than to keep people on the public teat. If the research was genuinely worthwhile they can get private funding from foundations, or businesses that would benefit from it. flat screen Televisions are a perfect example. A number of manufacturers approached Bush senior and asked him for money to fund the research. His response was that they could pay for it themselves. Couple of years later, we have flat screens.     

No, private industry will not fund basic scientific research.  Private industry will, and does, fund applied research, or research that they suspect is close to an application that will make money fairly soon.  Research in fundamental physics (as an example) is too far from immediate application to garner any private money, yet there has never been an advance in our understanding of fundamental physics that did not eventually lead to technology.  Most mathematics research is even more distant from applicability, but mathematical results are a permanent product.  The basis for public-key encryption are results in number theory that were "useless" for hundreds of years before they found an application.  A great deal of serious science back in the 19th century and before was done by wealthy individuals, who were curious about the world, and not driven to make as much money as possible, as seems the case with most of our rich in modern America. The scientific problems that remain open -- resolving the incompatibility of quantum mechanics and general relativity, the nature of consciousness, the nature and properties of dark matter and dark energy, the origin of life,... -- are all too hard to give back to wealthy hobbyists to pursue.