The Fox Often Has Something to Hide
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (96988)
United States
March 8, 2025 9:27am CST
If you want to know how the hens are doing, sure, you CAN ask the fox. But even when he tells you the hens are fine, it's best to have a peek inside the coop yourself just to be sure what he's telling you is true.
Because the fox may have reason to be less than forthcoming, and you have to be aware of that.
It's the same with many other situations in life. If you want to know the real progress of students, don't ask the teachers or even the administrators. They have a reason they might want to make the scores look better.
If the CFO tells you the company's books are fine and in well-working order, you STILL want to have an independent auditing firm come in to have a second look.
Even Internal Affairs within our policing agencies are kind of a dumb idea. Ask the cops if the cops are doing their jobs, and they likely will have reason to tell you that, yes, they indeed aren't doing anything wrong.
DOGE may be uncomfortable to some. Here we have an outsider looking into things. But DOGE is not the fox, of course. It's an individual set of eyes having a peek into the chicken coop to check to make sure all the hens are accounted for.
The ones crying against having a closer look at what's going on are the VERY people we should be concerned about. They are the fox and there's a strong, sneaking suspicion we're not hearing as many clucks coming from the coop than we should be hearing.
Just a little bit more food for thought and another way of repeating myself because even though I know this horse is dead, he obviously ain't dead ENOUGH.
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@NJChicaa (121878)
• United States
8 Mar
Having Elmo in charge of DOGE is insane. He has fired inspectors general who were investigating him. He has gone after the FAA which is involved with his SpaceX crap. He just got another big Starlink contract from the government which I think was involved with the FAA thing. No conflicts of interest though, right? He will self-report, right?
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@moffittjc (122998)
• Gainesville, Florida
9 Mar
So if Musk wasn't in charge of DOGE you wouldn't have any issues with them uncovering fraud and waste in federal government spending?
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@NJChicaa (121878)
• United States
9 Mar
@moffittjc No I'm fine with the idea of the group in general. Having Elon in charge is beyond crazy. And as far as I can tell they haven't done much other than waste time and money while also putting veterans out of work.
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@porwest (96988)
• United States
9 Mar
You speak with such "confidence." Yet at the same time who was investigating Trump? Why? Under what pretenses? Under who's direction? For what purposes? You know damn well that nearly every single case brought against Trump was politically motivated, yet you will deny that while at the same time believe Musk might be using certain powers to get at people?
Come on.
As for conflicts of interest, you trust that CONGRESS will self-report as monies are uncovered THROUGH Doge?
Give me a break. You are contradicting yourself very badly here.
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@porwest (96988)
• United States
9 Mar
I really do appreciate that. I am not trying to win any accolades, or even any arguments. I am just trying to get people to step back and think about things a bit more than they typically tend to. I have no idea if I am actually accomplishing my goal, but I will certainly never stop trying.
It seems to me that what we've arrived at aren't even political differences anymore. It's gone way beyond that. For example, MANY of Trump's policies are actually Democrat ones. The border and protectionism, as well as his opposition to war and world policing being glaring examples. Yet, liberals have COMPLETELY abandoned their ideals not because they are ideals they no longer agree with, but because they have been conditioned to hate a man and oppose HIM even if he aligns with them just because he has an R instead of a D after his name.
What Trump has essentially done is he has chosen to choose the best of both party's ideas and make it HIS agenda. He is more of a populist than a true Republican. Yet Democrats still reject him just because he calls himself something other than a Democrat.
One of these days I will write about this interesting dynamic, because I find it fascinating really how Trump ACTUALLY rose to popularity. But of course, it would be too long of a piece to present here. But it's still a story worth telling.
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@moffittjc (122998)
• Gainesville, Florida
9 Mar
And the ones screaming the loudest in opposition are the ones who are the most guilty.
It just blows my mind that there are people in the American population who are AGAINST this hard look into our government spending.
I've said for years that our federal government has become too bloated. It's time we scale it back. Our founding fathers never intended the federal government to be this large and powerful.
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@xander6464 (44908)
• Wapello, Iowa
13 Mar
And the ones screaming the loudest in opposition are the ones who are the most guilty.
It just blows my mind that there are people in the American population who are AGAINST this hard look into our government spending.
I've said for years that our federal government has become too bloated. It's time we scale it back. Our founding fathers never intended the federal government to be this large and powerful.
--------Doge is like Trump Steaks. Completely useless, unprofitable and stupid.
@lovebuglena (45925)
• Staten Island, New York
9 Mar
Would people still have a fit if it wasn’t Elon doing this but some other guy?
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@xander6464 (44908)
• Wapello, Iowa
13 Mar
@porwest If it were at Trump's direction, it wouldn't matter who was put in charge of it. The fault is not with the idea, but rather WHO'S idea it is.
---------------In Trump's case, it's a double fault. Idea and implenation.
@dgobucks226 (36235)
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12 Mar
At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing. With a debt at 37 trillion should it really be unpopular and mean to streamline a "bloated government" by cutting employees not essential for the government to function effectively.
This is an issue Trump ran on. Who really is the bad guy, Musk who is trying to prevent the country from insolvency by eliminating fraud and waste, or those bureaucracies/departments who give out contracts to friends and clients which waste taxpayer money, do not serve our interests, and drive up the debt.
The administrative state has gone on unchecked for long enough. Those democratic leaders and talking heads on legacy media should be blaming the administration departments who hired DEI people who are unqualified for the positions they received with monies our government didn't have, not Trump and DODGE.
All these Democrats protesting outside departments being audited was ridiculous. What are they afraid of, their friends no longer getting government contracts. Those who scream the loudest have something to hide!
And those attacking Musk for a government subsidy contract for Starlink's Space X only need to look to their Democratic President Joe Biden who gave him that business in 2022, and in 2023 granted him a Pentagon contract to develop a military version of Starlink called Starshield in the first place. What does auditing the government books have to do with Starlink? Seems there were no problems during the Biden Administration?
Some just miss the point entirely. Their angry that Trump is president, angry that he tasked a "traitor" in Elon Musk who helped get him elected to find waste and fraud in the government, and angry at how successful he and his team is at finding it. Common sense is not so common among Trump haters.
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@xander6464 (44908)
• Wapello, Iowa
13 Mar
At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing. With a debt at 37 trillion should it really be unpopular and mean to streamline a "bloated government" by cutting employees not essential for the government to function effectively.
----------Like the time they fired the people who maintain the nuclear weapons and then had to rehire them?
As for the debt, the vast majority is because of Trump. You hired an arsonist to put out the fire and he subtracted a total moron. Do you feel smart?
