Department of Government Efficiency - DOGE

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volkyries said:
People pay $14 for "exceptional" service and most of the time the people paying FedEx to ship letters are using other people's money (corporations, lawyers billing clients, etc.). The $14 service works because everyone is not using it. FedEx would not be able to afford such guarantees on their service is they were handling 100 or 1,000s of times more volume like USPS does. Why do people eat at McDonalds or even Texas Roadhouse instead of Ruth Chris? Because that's all they can afford or they don't feel the luxury is worth the costs. Same with USPS vs private shippers.

That said, yes, there is room (with the political will) for price increases for USPS and changes to their delivery times/# of deliveries per week and I agree we should be doing some of those actions (specifically decreased delivery frequency). I don't agree with privatizing the postal service though, since I think in the long run it would be more expensive and in order to reach areas no one wanted to deliver to we would have laws/regulations forcing additional charges for "Universal service charges" (similar to the old charges on phone bills, cable, internet, etc.).

Your letter cost you since you used the service and the price is an average for the service. My letter from TN to CA thanks you for sharing its cost. if To bad it was a PO Box or you could have just hand delivered the letter yourself and avoided the PO all together.
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I never mentioned in our discussion today about privatizing. Although since you brought it up, do you find it interesting that your "what ifs" of privatizing are all negative? Isn't it just as likely that the 'what ifs" of a privatized approach could be positive (cheaper, more efficient, better satisfaction)? I mean if we are going to think about it we have to be honest that there are likely both positives and negatives to it, don't we?
 
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hog88 said:
USPS could raise rates and limit routes. Do we really need 6 day a week mail delivery?
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Not when it takes 2 weeks to get it anyway.

I had to take a mandatory inherited IRA distribution by the end of the year. It wasn't much, only $1100. Schwab sent me the check Dec 28. Two weeks into January I didn't have it and became concerned. I call Schwab and they recommended that we stop payment on it and issue another. Well a week later I got a check. Assuming that it was the last check, I deposited it, without looking at the date on the check. A week later I get another check in the mail. Yep, it was the replacement check. I call the bank and told them the situation and Schwab. Both said they could do nothing, that it just had to run it's course. Schwab said to go ahead and deposit the replacement check, which I did. A week later the bank called and told me the Schwab check had been returned for a stop payment and wanted to know if I knew. I told them yes, that I had called and discussed the issues two weeks prior. They said they would deduct the $25 return check fee from my account. :rolleyes:
 
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Orange_Crush said:
They also expected to be in the press corp. How'd that work out?
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McDad said:
I never mentioned in our discussion today about privatizing. Although since you brought it up, do you find it interesting that your "what ifs" of privatizing are all negative? Isn't it just as likely that the 'what ifs" of a privatized approach could be positive (cheaper, more efficient, better satisfaction)? I mean if we are going to think about it we have to be honest that there are likely both positives and negatives to it, don't we?
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I am a bit of a pessimist admittedly. I am sure there could be some good points as well, but I just have a hard time seeing them.
 
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NashVol11 said:
Sounds about right

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A reversal of strategy, I see.

You and yours moved from: Every target for a cut is a "constitutional"™ "crisis"™, until that failed (outside of the confines media propaganda-scape and echo chamber) because no bought your garbage.

To: Now the opposite is the case: the DOGE cuts don't matter because the budget has to be acted upon before the best way to make cuts is determined.

Next: If Congress has to act on a budget before spending matters can be thoroughly investigated (which knowledge you oppose), the President doesn't really care about budgets.

Or: If they were to make cuts based on estimates, you would say they are making cuts "without"™ "evidence."™

See how easy! It's not a thinking person's preoccupation. It's always just hack garbage, every day.

Depending on how it goes, a ready and unified propaganda assault is dished out for further distribution by bots and "the little people. The whole endless uproar is feckless, predictable, juvenile, ad hoc, and boring. A game for senseless people stirred up by the "hot take of the day." Most people just laugh at this stuff now.

Have you ever acknowledged that RussiaGate and the lies about Hunter's laptops have proven to be ops, aimed at "hacking" US elections? If you can't admit that, you are not a serious person. Just a blabberer and a time suck.
 
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Musk tells Cabinet that DOGE email was 'pulse check' for workers, warns US will 'go bankrupt' without action​


Elon Musk defends DOGE productivity email to federal employees: 'Do you have a pulse?'​


President Donald Trump tapped Elon Musk to speak at the top of the first full Cabinet meeting on Wednesday to discuss the progress made by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Musk, standing in his signature black suit jacket with a T-shirt underneath, spoke at the meeting in which the media was present and made some clarifications about what he and DOGE are doing, as well as a recent email sent to government employees.

"I actually just call myself a humble tech support hero," Musk stated. "As crazy as it sounds, that is almost a literal description of the work of the DOGE team is doing is helping fix the government computer systems," Musk said, saying the computer systems are "extremely old" and there are many mistakes in the systems.


"So we are actually tech support," Musk said. "It's ironic, but it's true."

www.foxnews.com

Musk tells Cabinet that DOGE email was 'pulse check' for workers, warns US will 'go bankrupt' without action

Elon Musk said his DOGE productivity email to federal employees was a "pulse check" amid suspicions dead people or "fictional individuals" are on payroll.
www.foxnews.com www.foxnews.com
 
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utvolpj said:
Made potus look weak and allowed him to be trolled by the French
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😆 That airhead response makes you look weak. "Trolled by the French." 😂 I am amazed at the stupidity of that circulated "hot take" du jour. They have treasure, soldiers, and youth they can conscript. Let the French invade Russia. It wouldn't be the first time.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
Flying in a straight line I believe is referred to as direct routing and I think it’s the exception not the rule, at least for commercial airliners. A pilot told me a long time ago you see the business jets do this regularly but not the airlines. Biz jets climb above the rest of the traffic following the “highways in the sky” and just go direct.
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Those "highways" are going away as we transition to what we call "free flight". Everybody is gonna be taking the most direct, expeditious routing they can.
 
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Orange. said:
A reversal of strategy, I see.

You and yours moved from: Every target for a cut is a "constitutional"™ "crisis"™, until that failed (outside of the confines media propaganda-scape and echo chamber) because no bought your garbage.

To: Now the opposite is the case: the DOGE cuts don't matter because the budget has to be acted upon before the best way to make cuts is determined.

Next: If Congress has to act on a budget before spending matters can be thoroughly investigated (which knowledge you oppose), the President doesn't really care about budgets.

Or: If they were to make cuts based on estimates, you would say they are making cuts "without"™ "evidence."™

See how easy! It's not a thinking person's preoccupation. It's always just hack garbage, every day.

Depending on how it goes, a ready and unified propaganda assault is dished out for further distribution by bots and "the little people. The whole endless uproar is feckless, predictable, juvenile, ad hoc, and boring. A game for senseless people stirred up by the "hot take of the day." Most people just laugh at this stuff now.

Have you ever acknowledged that RussiaGate and the lies about Hunter's laptops have proven to be ops, aimed at "hacking" US elections? If you can't admit that, you are not a serious person. Just a blabberer and a time suck.
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I'm really confused. "These cuts mean nothing but you don't have the right to make them." 🤔
 
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LouderVol said:
everyone who was lighting me up for questioning how fast DOGE was moving. everyone who was saying "we have to do something" to save money.
everyone who shouted down the questions about his, and DOGE's, qualifications to even be reviewing this stuff.
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I'm fine with what he's doing. Burn it all down.
 
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