Comment by Juliate
5 days ago
If you take USAID « revelations » by Musk at face value, you are… rather misled.
The very behavior of DOGE looks like kids unleashed in a factory they don’t understand, willing not to recognize their capacities are adequate to understand it in so little time.
There were knowledgeable people, they’ve been fired.
You wouldn’t accept it for a flying plane pilot or a surgeon in the surgery room, why would you accept it for state agencies?
I was asked to join USDS by the head of the agency in 2018.
I am fully aware of the widespread fraud they were encountering, as well as the technical difficulties of fixing it. I am also aware of the less-than-neutral culture that pervaded that organization at that time. I also have experience as a defense contractor and have personally met and interacted with many people in the administrative bureaucracy, including high ranking cabinet members.
My comments come from personal experience both with the precursor to DOGE (which is a division in USDS), as well as how the federal government operates.
And that’s a good point of view.
And yet you believe that fixing this requires pulling the plug on most if not all, by people totally remote to how it works?
That’s a peculiar way of fixing this. Especially in administrative matters (where the side effects are as deadly as putting an untrained random person in charge of a civil airplane).