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

submitted 3 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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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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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 weeks ago

cockface: "i just saved the country eleventyteen billion gajillion bazillion dollars. and also saved the world"

maga: "please lord elmo, nut in my eye"

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

Welcome to fascism! Where the rules are made up, and the points don't matter...

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 weeks ago

If we nationalize musks companies and kick him back to South Africa we’d save even more.

[–] 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.