Money pit a term we all use from time to time but do we have a good grasp on the definition?  If not I can help….

Money pit….A massive non stop waste of money that you regret severely in hind sight

I would say that explains this whole stupidity of the DOGE.

Billionaire CEO and White House advisor Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has amassed roughly 30 staffers with the goal of slashing the US government’s budget.

As it’s targeted president Donald Trump’s number one bogeyman — diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) — something ironic is happening: even as it’s trying to cut costs across the government, the so-called department’s expenses are ballooning.

As Business Insider reports, DOGE’s spending more than doubled from $6.75 million to $14.4 million between January 30 and February 8, according to its latest financial filings.

While that’s still quite a bit less than the roughly $60 million the Biden administration set aside for the United States Digital Services last year — the department was reincarnated as DOGE — it’s nonetheless a sign that Musk is quickly racking up bills, despite employing underqualified high school grads, drug sellers, and racist shitposters.

Meanwhile, according to DOGE’s dubious back-of-the-envelope accounting, the department is purportedly saving the government “approx. $1 billion/day.”

“A good start, though this number needs to increase to > $3 billion/day,” DOGE’s official X account tweeted late last month.

DOGE has gloated about canceling government subscriptions to news outlets and consulting contracts related to “executive coaching.”

But considering the mountain of legal complaints filed against the nascent entity, DOGE will likely have some much steeper bills to pay in the upcoming months and possibly years.

In just a matter of weeks, Musk’s group of young lackeys — who have torn through sensitive data at lightning speeds without the necessary clearances — have already amassed a litany of lawsuits from district judges, religious groups, teachers’ unions, federal worker unions, the American Foreign Service Association,  and 22 attorneys general, to name a few.

And as plenty of experts have since pointed out, DOGE’s indiscriminate combing through sensitive data is likely illegal.

Who will foot the bill for the ensuing legal challenges remains to be seen. Besides, we’ve already seen the Trump administration bristle at the legal blowback, with Trump accusing judges of “intolerable judicial overreach.” If the judicial system will survive Musk’s coup is also a hotly contested subject these days; Congress, meanwhile, has mostly sat on the sidelines.

Apart from ballooning expenses, DOGE at least won’t have to give the richest man in the world a paycheck, as BI points out, since he’s a “special government employee.”

(futurism.com)

The whole idea of giving this tool Elmo unlimited power is stupid….but then look who is allowing it.

As Elon Musk stood beside him, President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that gives Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency group control over hiring and firing at federal agencies. Six takes on what that means:

• Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo: “I don’t think it’s too much to say that it puts Musk functionally in control of the US government,” he writes, noting that “political commissars” will be assigned to each federal agency and given control over hiring and firing, with a requirement that for every four people who are let go, only one person can be hired. “We’re in dystopian quasi-science fiction territory here,” Marshall concludes.

Rex Huppke, USA Today: He likewise calls Musk the nation’s “most powerful person” and “de facto president”—an “unelected rich snot” who is “demolishing the federal government, probably illegally” and “acting downright gleeful about thousands upon thousands of Americans losing their jobs.” “It is vile, bordering on sadism,” Huppke writes. “Losing a job is a catastrophe for most families. It’s not a damn joke.”

• Tressie McMillan Cottom, New York Times: Musk wants to dismantle and “demoralize” the federal government, she writes, noting his “narration of power as a vicarious gamelike experience of dominance” is “a skilled manipulation of content in a content-saturated culture” that “obscures what is actually happening.” Look beyond his exuberant tweets and you’ll see “a strategic takeover of national interests that will demolish the state’s functionality in a way that benefits the ones swinging the hammer.”
• Nicole Russell, USA Today: Taxpayers should be celebrating these efforts “to bring financial responsibility to the federal government,” she writes, noting that as a parent, she’d love to know why $268 billion in annual education funding hasn’t delivered “a better return on our investment.” She believes Trump when he says billions of dollars in waste and fraud will be found and argues the hunt “is exactly what Americans want.”
• Cal Thomas, Tribune Content Agency: Indeed, Trump promised to downsize government, and now he’s following through on that promise, writes Thomas. He compares Musk’s moves to “spring cleaning,” the eliminating of “wasteful, fraudulent, and, in many cases, unnecessary and duplicative programs” that came from bureaucrats and regulators who, like Musk, weren’t elected by the people. And “sometimes it takes a chainsaw, instead of a scalpel, to get a job done.”

I like the term ‘president de facto’ when describing Elmo.

Nothing about this unit impresses me….it will in the end go down as a colossal waste of time and money.

Whatcha think?

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