Current Affairs Elon Musk

[dylsexicbleu]

My apartment contains more cubic meters than the wardrobe that contains Narnia. Can I have some loans against this mythical plot of land please, this is all above board of course = Fraud.

Any system designed to be difficult to properly audit encourages fraud.

 

[Rita_Poon]

You have been asked previous not to reply to me you grubby little oik. Cease and desist! This means you you stinking wretch!

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Implicit physical threats to a President or official is a sad state of affairs in today's world. What's next; a generic Democrat President doesn't reduce the tax burden on the middle class so it's open season to shoot that generic Democrat President?

Saving should go primarily on reducing the US deficit, but I think they'll go towards tax cuts and reducing the deficit. If the deficit is reduced then interest rates fall. This leads to increased economic activity. The average US citizen wins.

What would "the woke" say about all this?

 

[NeilMorepies]

 

[Efcjake]

Oh, as is the Pentagon's budget. Fraud on a massive scale, all intentionally opaque. I think people will go to prison if DOGE can uncover a digital trail at the Pentagon.

I'm sure you're well informed in Scotland as to the goings on with the US Pentagon budget you utter loon.

 

[NeilMorepies]

Oh, as is the Pentagon's budget. Fraud on a massive scale, all intentionally opaque. I think people will go to prison if DOGE can uncover a digital trail at the Pentagon.

All those billions being funnelled onto SpaceX need looking at.
Blatant corruption

 

[dublinbluenose]

 

[efcste97]

Musk's Doge takes aim at US consumer protection agency

The billionaire aide to Donald Trump indicates he wants to see the end of an agency founded after the financial crash of 2007-8.

www.bbc.com

I wonder why.....

 

[Toffeepot]

Implicit physical threats to a President or official is a sad state of affairs in today's world. What's next; a generic Democrat President doesn't reduce the tax burden on the middle class so it's open season to shoot that generic Democrat President?

Saving should go primarily on reducing the US deficit, but I think they'll go towards tax cuts and reducing the deficit. If the deficit is reduced then interest rates fall. This leads to increased economic activity. The average US citizen wins.

oh stfu
your orange hero has made implicit threats about everyone who doesn't lick the bronzer smooth on his a$$

There will be no benefit to the middle, working and forgotten classes under Trump. None

 

[Efcjake]

oh stfu
your orange hero has made implicit threats about everyone who doesn't lick the bronzer smooth on his a$$

There will be no benefit to the middle, working and forgotten classes under Trump. None

What I can't work out with @dylsexicbleu is what got a "Jock" so obsessed with Musk, the woke, the orange man, and US politics.

Go eat a deep fried mars bar and go trainspotting instead of getting so worked up pal.

 

[Toffeepot]

What I can't work out with @dylsexicbleu is what got a "Jock" so obsessed with Musk, the woke, the orange man, and US politics.

Go eat a deep fried mars bar and go trainspotting instead of getting so worked up pal.

 

[Efcjake]

It's often very difficult to distinguish between fraud & waste especially when an extensive audit of the Pentagon seems nearly impossible. Best to assume a bit of waste and a bit of fraud are taking place. I have no idea whether the waste to fraud ratio is 50/50 or 90/10. That's what these eggheads at DOGE will try to find out.

This is absolutely nonsense.

A DOGE engineer has no idea if it's waste or fraud either. They don't work in military capability acquisition and have no idea why any contract would have been issued.

There are so many possible reasons for acquisitions from particular vendors beyond price.

You genuinely don't have a clue what you're talking about here.

 

[Efcjake]

Yes, they are just using whichever word suits them at the time.

To be fair though, it would surprise me if there wasn't massive fraud where billion dollar contracts are involved.

I don't mean fraud in that they are syphoning money directly, but contracts will be going to businesses owned by family members, huge consultancy fees going to friends, debts and loans to associates written off etc.

There is no way people handling that sort of money are being open and honest with every contract.

I can only speak to how things are done in Canada but there are paper trails behind every penny spent from parliamentary funding and many checks and balances in place to prevent this from happening.

I am aware that there is much more discretionary funding available to the US military and a lot more black book type projects happening but I imagine the overwhelming majority of waste is very much so explained by incompetence or obsolescence rather than maliciousness.

 

[tsubaki]

This is absolutely nonsense.

A DOGE engineer has no idea if it's waste or fraud either. They don't work in military capability acquisition and have no idea why any contract would have been issued.

There are so many possible reasons for acquisitions from particular vendors beyond price.

You genuinely don't have a clue what you're talking about here.

I am fairly sure even an untrained person picked up off the streets would, if given the necessary access and time, probably find significant fraud quite easily in those accounts. If they were empowered to go after the really serious, structural, waste then they'd have to be pretty incompetent not to see it.

 

[dylsexicbleu]

Big, if true.