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I don’t know why this is a surprise to anyone. Trump is famous for not paying contractors and workers. He waits it out until they sue and his expensive lawyers beep the plaintiffs dry or settle for some fraction of the contract price.
This stunt actually has nothing to do with "fraud" in government spending, but as someone with experience in government procurement, contracting is where the waste is. The government actually doesn't do too badly when we keep the work in-house. It's these multimillion dollar contracts to some private company that are where the waste, fraud, and abuse are. Go fucking audit SpaceX. Revisit those contracts. Bet we can save billions every year on just one companies stupid fucking defense contracts. Then go after the rest of these contractors. Threaten to bring the work back in house and see how they react. Follow through and actually bring the work back in house, build the public sector engineering and manufacturing expertise, and see where we are.
Contracting as in having the reflection pool painted?
Be careful. Facts, logic, and common sense will only get you on a gov't watchlist these days.
Good do it. Let the states that still have a sense of sanity group up and implement a multistate unemployment assistance strategy. Seriously, perhaps its time blue states encourage the disempowerment of the federal government and transfer those programs to mutually aligned state initiatives. Leave out all the welfare red states and redirect that transfer of wealth from blue states to red states, back to their own ppl. Americas system of statehood and states rights is something dems should probably start proposing making more use of. If feds under Trump don't want social programs then build multistate programs that serve that function, leaving out the Maga central states altogether.
It’s like they are testing limits. They keep doing crazier shit week after week then say well no one is doing anything about it so let’s keep going.
Trump admin: "DUUUUH I WUNDER IF DIS WILL HELP PEOPLE" pushes the Hurt People buuton
Fuck it, let him. I'm so sorry for all the innocents this will impact, but I'm so over this "I'm going to do something terrible to my own supporters, maybe." Shit.
Let him year down all the shit his supporters have become reliant on, but have no clue.
Fuck 'em all. Die mad and broke you pieces of shit.
All the fraud is in his home and with his friends. Even if all the people receiving benefits were making fraudulent claims, it would probably amount to less than he and his family are grifting from the US governemnt this year.
Do they like riots and open rebellion, because letting people starve is how you get riots and open rebellions…
That’s what they want.
Let us revenge this with our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.
The waste fraud and abuse are coming from inside the house.
And the senate, and the White House, and mar a lago
I'm not sure you're getting the reference.
Wow, you may be the only one who gets very popular cultural references.
They could have been thinking of the House part of Congress, since they only listed the Senate.
I'm fairly certain that's what they were thinking.
Are we at the beheading part of history yet?
He just had dinner at Versailles, home of Marie Antoinette.
He's had numerous "Let them eat cake moments," most recently his "I love the Inflation" moment, and sooner or later he's going to cross the wrong line when the timing is right, and he'll meet the same fate.
I think he said "these things happen" in relation to the price of tickets - possibly even more recently than the idiotic inflation comment.
Currently on unemployment thanks to the tech industry. I wonder what my trump loving family members will think when I bring this up the next time they ask me how the job hunt is going.
Knowing Trump fans, they're going to say it's a good thing, it'll make you get up and get a job sooner rather than laying around "wasting time on the government dime". Cause they all probably believe it's very easy to get another job.
Was going to say the same thing. Besides, if they know you don't support PEDOnald, they'll take it as your comeuppance.
I've had a conservative in-law tell me that maybe I should not be getting by financially, and that was implied as part of the problem under Biden - that I was doing okay. Because I went to college, etc. No, I should be doing less well and that would mean things were properly balanced or something. That somehow PEDOnald didn't "get" people like me the first time around and somehow harmed me and others like me (meaning, again, someone who went to college) - and maybe not only financially and that hopefully that would be different in his second term.
It's just as fucked as it sounds. Did this in-law think it through and realize it would harm not only my kids, but his direct blood relative? If he did, he didn't give a fuck, apparently.
If you aren't conservative and don't support Donvict, you deserve to suffer, in their worldview.
"Have you asked ChatGPT for help finding a job?"
When he breaks California, I hope the red states will like living in cardboard boxes and eating dirt.
Seriously. He wants to destroy the United States by having blue, wealthy, supportive states succeed. Then let's see how his supporters pull themselves up by their own boot straps and levitate.
You mean fail?
“The American people will no longer tolerate the blatant waste, fraud and abuse of their hard-earned tax dollars — no state should allow it either,”
Excuse me? If anything, the 2024 election made it crystal clear that the American people will, in fact, tolerate the blatant waste, fraud, and abuse of our hard-earned tax dollars. 77 million people actually voted for it.
Yeah and what about that $300B in taxpayer dollars we're giving to Iran? Seems like the definition of waste, fraud, and abuse.
they even published a fucking playbook called project 2025.
dumbfucks
But they super promised they never even heard of it or was going to use it. Then installed its writers in key positions. Purely by happenstance.
One of the things I hated so much about the 2024 election was all the fucking gaslighting about it, too. There were plenty saying "isn't that just a liberal conspiracy theory" and bullshit about "blue maga" (lol, whatever) and lots of the corporate media doing that sort of collective shrug about a documented plan.
Trump and the Republicans want to kill poor people.
& they are succeeding, worldwide
And you know what happens? This makes the next group of people, i.e. middle class, the next poors! Guess what they want to do to the new poors?
Who do they think the rich will live off of then?
Or maybe they haven’t thought that far ahead.
Waste and fraud… If only someone hadn’t started a war with Iran and then paid them $300B three months later to end it, gaining precisely nothing…
How do empires die?
Gradually then suddenly.
The US is in the latter stage.
They want you so desperate to cling to employment that you will no longer care about working conditions or fair wages or be willing to endanger said employment by being politically active.
Cool. Do it. I cannot wait to see what happens before he realizes that his base are beneficiaries of unemployment.