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Bob Gmitter's avatar

I could write for hours about all the fraud waste and abuse I saw working as an engineer in the DoD, it was sickening. What was the hardest to take was when I tried to fix it and was punished or told to shut up especially after obama forced DEI on us.

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I continue to believe that the first goal of DOGE, the strategic reason for its existence, is to expose the level of waste, fraud and abuse in government spending to the American people. And the waste, fraud and abuse is, well, it’s 100%. It’s every single budget line item in the entire Federal budget. There isn’t a single honest dollar. Not one. Where to begin? There was never going to be a successful “drain the swamp” objective, as we so often heard in Trump’s first term, by any kind of conventional, frontal attack, however you might think of what conventional means. It was going to have to be a kind of Trojan Horse operation, it was going to have to be a surprise attack, oblique and full of lightning moves that caught the enemy off guard and put them back on their heels. But even this was going to be a long shot, a kind of Hail Mary pass, or maybe a series of them. Success, if it ever comes, may come the same way that success in the German economy came after 1945. Said another way, weeds cannot be coaxed into becoming beautiful plants. And if they’ve choked the entire garden, well then, what is needed would seem obvious. But it is not obvious in America primarily because a very substantial portion of the American people love the weeds. They actually benefit from them or have figured out how to get rich off of them. A different kind of garden indeed.

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