Dep. Of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

[Savingsbeast]

News and discussions on Trump's new DOGE initiative.

What are your thoughts and ideas?

[Alexsei]

Long overdue.

[Savingsbeast]

The idea of DOGE is to reimagine and to reconsider all of the required functions of government using a blank-sheet-of-paper approach and then rebuild from the ground up the necessary agencies to fulfill these requirements, bearing in mind the technologies available today, i.e., AI and others, that can be implemented to achieve the necessary outcomes.

How much would we save and how much more efficient and effective would it be?

One of the things that I think can greatly benefit form some efficiency, is passport renewals. I'm sure there are many more, but this can to mind.

In today's day and age, we should probably be able to process a passport renewal in a matter of days rather than weeks, or sometimes months. I'm sure the process still involves a lot of unnecessary manual labor that can be automated.

@Dan can we get you to make some noise on this? Perhaps it'll get on Elon's chopping block.

[yfr bachur]

The idea of DOGE is to reimagine and to reconsider all of the required functions of government using a blank-sheet-of-paper approach and then rebuild from the ground up the necessary agencies to fulfill these requirements, bearing in mind the technologies available today, i.e., AI and others, that can be implemented to achieve the necessary outcomes.

That sounds like a 20+ year project, not one that will be compleated by july 4, 2026

[Savingsbeast]

Are you referring to the project as a whole or passport renewals specifically?

[~King Lake~]

That sounds like a 20+ year project, not one that will be compleated by july 4, 2026

[aygart]

And it will be a three hour result.

[~King Lake~]

And it will be a three hour result.

Whatever that means...
If Tesla & SpaceX are 3 hour results, then - I'm happy with results

[Savingsbeast]

He actually says that it would take three years to plan and then one year to get it all working.

https://x.com/ajtourville/status/1845481395625304331

[~King Lake~]

He actually says that it would take three years to plan and then one year to get it all working.

Where did he say that?

[Savingsbeast]

Did you watch the video?

[~King Lake~]

Did you watch the video?

No, filter blocks x posts...

[Savingsbeast]

Where can I submit my suggestions?

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1856520760656797801

[yfr bachur]

The biggest problem with this is...
That the greatest expenditures from the Govt budget are mandatory expenditures that need changes in law to cut, some of which DJT has already said he won't be touching.
Its sort of like someone figuring out which CC will give him the most points when he's hundreds of thousands of dollars underwater each month.

[Mordyk]

The biggest problem with this is...
That the greatest expenditures from the Govt budget are mandatory expenditures that need changes in law to cut, some of which DJT has already said he won't be touching.
Its sort of like someone figuring out which CC will give him the most points when he's hundreds of thousands of dollars underwater each month.

i know this might be city related but just a case of stupid
https://bklyner.com/2m-bathroom-tops-off-renovations-18th-avenue-park/

someone should be on top of normal spending vs ludicrous overspending cause why not.

[yfr bachur]

Stupid tzu shtel
A better one is
If you give yourself 30 days to count all the trees in the Sierra Nevada it will take 30 days and if you give yourself 3 hours you'll be done in three hours.

[Yehudaa]

Ironically, both of Parkinson's laws are relevant here:

Parkinson's law can refer to either of two observations, published in 1955 by the naval historian C. Northcote Parkinson as an essay in The Economist:[1]

- "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion",
- the number of workers within public administration, bureaucracy or officialdom tends to grow, regardless of the amount of work to be done. This was attributed mainly to two factors: that officials want subordinates, not rivals, and that officials make work for each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law

[aygart]

Whatever that means...
If Tesla & SpaceX are 3 hour results, then - I'm happy with results

I have news for you. Those didn't take 3 hours or 4 years to build.

[~King Lake~]

I have news for you. Those didn't take 3 hours or 4 years to build.

And DOGE is not rocket science

[Chester7]

That sounds like a 20+ year project, not one that will be compleated by july 4, 2026

I would think if they're even partially successful, it can put pressure on the next admin to continue..