PSA: It's not DOGE, it's "D"o"G""E".
It is NOT an established Department of the Federal Gov't. Only Congress can establish a Department, and it has not done so.
It is NOT any other institution of the Federal Gov't; it is the personal servant of the OCCUPANT of the Oval Office. They may be receiving gov't contracts and salaries -- in fact, they're probably double-, triple-, and quadruple-dipping, but they don't serve the gov't or the taxpayers. They serve only one vindictive individual who squeaked into elective office, and his boss.
It has NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING, to do with efficiency except as a (marginally) ostensibly plausible excuse. Efficiency is a measure of the results you get out for the resources and effort you put in. RWNJs don't want to put ANYTHING in, and want to outlaw absolutely anyone but themselves ever getting ANYTHING out. Nothing out for nothing in is not perfect efficiency, it's perfect INEFFECTIVENESS, which is exactly what they want, until THEY need help. No matter how much the Reich wing bitches and moans about "EFFICIENCY" -- a term which really means "our paymasters didn't get a big enough cut" -- real world results repeatedly reveal that what people, including taxpayers, really want (while seldom saying it clearly) is EFFECTIVENESS. The gov't that GETS THINGS DONE TO HELP ITS CITIZENS will always be more popular than the one that is only seen to collect taxes while playing Sugar Daddy to its Sweet Li'l (Billionaire/Corporate) Things and allowing the quality of life for the proverbial "ordinary American" to decline unabated for year after year, Congressional session after Congressional session. The GOP -- the party of hatred and bigotry, insider dealing, fossil fuel subsidies, regressive tax schedules, handmaiden to corporate interests, undisclosed gifts* of dark money, frequent sex abuse scandals (usually by people who loudly proclaim "traditional family values" without clarifying whose traditions they're referring to), voter purging, vote caging, voter ID restrictions, invalidated mail-in ballots and invalidated signatures, and a COMPLETE AND TOTAL RELIANCE ON THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE TO EVER "WIN" THE WHITE HOUSE, serves only one purpose: to DISTRACT the American voting public from all the destruction inflicted on our society by its financial underwriters with red herrings so blatant that even the dullest drooling knuckle-dragging red hatter can grasp the supposed offense he's being lied to about and know whom he's expected to hate for it -- furrners, nonwhite people, poor people, handicapped people, sick people, women people, educated people, generous people, or pretty much anyone who couldn't pass for himself, his spouse/servant, or other blood relative. We've all seen anecdotes or cartoons like the following, and it's time for our Dem representative and the public media to recognize that this ISN'T a metaphor or allegory, it's the literal Goddamned truth:
* Not really gifts, technically, since substantial and often disproportionate material value is expected in return, as both giver and receiver are well aware.
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