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DOGE claims to make $8B saving — on a contract worth just $8M (www.rawstory.com)

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency task force is finally providing some numbers purporting to give examples of significant savings to the federal government from terminating wasteful spending.

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[–] Australis13@fedia.io 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Adding extra zeros is such a lazy way to make themselves look better (unless they're expecting people are stupid enough to think they genuinely can mix up billion vs million). At least be a little inventive with fake numbers!

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

unless they're expecting people are stupid enough to think they genuinely can mix up billion vs million

They think they're only smart people, so they aren't expecting other people to be smart enough to realize they are stupid.