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created under Obama to help fix the problems with the Obamacare website, but then became this sort of government deficiency thing. By doing that, he is sort of seeing how the machinery of payments and tech happens with the government. This is sort of the difference between him and Vivek Ramaswamy about what to do with Doge.
created under Obama to help fix the problems with the Obamacare website, but then became this sort of government deficiency thing. By doing that, he is sort of seeing how the machinery of payments and tech happens with the government. This is sort of the difference between him and Vivek Ramaswamy about what to do with Doge.
Vivek, I think, was more concerned with executive orders and looking for these kind of efficiencies. And Musk is like, let me get inside the tech. And we're seeing the fruits โ and I was initially on the side of Vivek Ramaswamy's approach towards this. We're seeing the fruits of the Musk approach this week.
Vivek, I think, was more concerned with executive orders and looking for these kind of efficiencies. And Musk is like, let me get inside the tech. And we're seeing the fruits โ and I was initially on the side of Vivek Ramaswamy's approach towards this. We're seeing the fruits of the Musk approach this week.
Vivek, I think, was more concerned with executive orders and looking for these kind of efficiencies. And Musk is like, let me get inside the tech. And we're seeing the fruits โ and I was initially on the side of Vivek Ramaswamy's approach towards this. We're seeing the fruits of the Musk approach this week.
And part of this, from my point of view, is not good just in the sense of you don't want to suddenly have the U.S. not have its websites that you can look up information about from database sets and stuff. And also you shouldn't suspend payment of services that have already been given. However, part of it has been really good โ in terms of people going, what? We pay for what now?
And part of this, from my point of view, is not good just in the sense of you don't want to suddenly have the U.S. not have its websites that you can look up information about from database sets and stuff. And also you shouldn't suspend payment of services that have already been given. However, part of it has been really good โ in terms of people going, what? We pay for what now?
And part of this, from my point of view, is not good just in the sense of you don't want to suddenly have the U.S. not have its websites that you can look up information about from database sets and stuff. And also you shouldn't suspend payment of services that have already been given. However, part of it has been really good โ in terms of people going, what? We pay for what now?
Which organization? We've had a lot of listeners in places like Poland and Hungary come back with reports of like, oh, that's interesting that this magazine or this civil society opposition group suddenly is saying that we can't pay our employees because the checks didn't come through from USAID. It's like, what are we actually funding out there? I would point out USAID is $44 billion a year in
Which organization? We've had a lot of listeners in places like Poland and Hungary come back with reports of like, oh, that's interesting that this magazine or this civil society opposition group suddenly is saying that we can't pay our employees because the checks didn't come through from USAID. It's like, what are we actually funding out there? I would point out USAID is $44 billion a year in
Which organization? We've had a lot of listeners in places like Poland and Hungary come back with reports of like, oh, that's interesting that this magazine or this civil society opposition group suddenly is saying that we can't pay our employees because the checks didn't come through from USAID. It's like, what are we actually funding out there? I would point out USAID is $44 billion a year in
The estimated cost to rebuild Gaza is north of 80 billion dollars a year. So it's not necessarily about, you know, we're going to reduce the size and scope of government just if we do this. However, it does show a thing that has existed and has been kind of put on steroids since the time of George W. Bush and the faith based initiative programs.
The estimated cost to rebuild Gaza is north of 80 billion dollars a year. So it's not necessarily about, you know, we're going to reduce the size and scope of government just if we do this. However, it does show a thing that has existed and has been kind of put on steroids since the time of George W. Bush and the faith based initiative programs.
The estimated cost to rebuild Gaza is north of 80 billion dollars a year. So it's not necessarily about, you know, we're going to reduce the size and scope of government just if we do this. However, it does show a thing that has existed and has been kind of put on steroids since the time of George W. Bush and the faith based initiative programs.
Government loves to give money to private charities, nonprofit groups, civil society groups. And it does that a lot in big cities like New York. It also does this in overseas in ways that most people are not aware of. And I think a lot of it is pretty skeevy.
Government loves to give money to private charities, nonprofit groups, civil society groups. And it does that a lot in big cities like New York. It also does this in overseas in ways that most people are not aware of. And I think a lot of it is pretty skeevy.
Government loves to give money to private charities, nonprofit groups, civil society groups. And it does that a lot in big cities like New York. It also does this in overseas in ways that most people are not aware of. And I think a lot of it is pretty skeevy.
It ends up sort of rewarding your political allies, allowing people to have a job when their administration or with their political team is kind of out of power. And a lot of it's gross. And so what Elon Musk is doing is sort of giving a margin call, wake up call, about the mechanics of that. And I think that is it is pretty useful.
It ends up sort of rewarding your political allies, allowing people to have a job when their administration or with their political team is kind of out of power. And a lot of it's gross. And so what Elon Musk is doing is sort of giving a margin call, wake up call, about the mechanics of that. And I think that is it is pretty useful.
It ends up sort of rewarding your political allies, allowing people to have a job when their administration or with their political team is kind of out of power. And a lot of it's gross. And so what Elon Musk is doing is sort of giving a margin call, wake up call, about the mechanics of that. And I think that is it is pretty useful.