• ryrybang@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The man is a thief, but there’s nothing to steal here. He’s lowering his totally bogus $ amount that he supposedly saved the government based on contract and lease cancellations.

    Every single contract (~10) that I know very specific details about that was DOGE-cancelled has a problematic “savings” amount on the doge.gov website. Every one is wrong. That’s just the 10 I know about where I have privileged information. There’s currently more than 8000 listed. I suspect most of those have similar issues with the reported “savings” amount.

    This is straight accounting that they are botching.

    Nevermind that the $ savings is bogus even if the accounting was accurate. Because these cancellations are costing the US taxpayer big-time in the long run.

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      I appreciate your input and I acknowledge I’m being a reactionary jerk off. Thanks for doing what you do.

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      Man, anytime I have been under an NDA it’s been about boring, mostly useless stuff related to Canadian telecom stuff or upcoming Microsoft products since I work in print and deal with those companies. I wish I got to see stuff like what you get to see, probably way more interesting than knowing the Xbox 360 would use an amd gpu instead of nvidia or that carrier A’s pricing strategy is to copy carrier B.

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        Unless you really care about 3080 vs 3600 funding or fixed price vs cost plus contracts, government finances aren’t all that exciting.