Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk's DOGE are expected to produce no savings

"... And will in fact cost more money in the long term when it's discovered that whatever it was that was canceled, was in fact necessary, and now runs at a premium due to fucking around."

It's almost as if efficiency and cost savings weren't actually the point.

What I've been reinforcing to the conservatives in my life, with reasonable success, is that "tax payer savings" right now is like a mail-in-rebate we haven't gotten yet. Say you paid $1000 for a new TV with a $200 MIR. You paid full price, no matter what the MIR sticker is, you haven't saved the $200 until the $200 is back in your wallet. If you never get the MIR, you saved nothing.

If we're still playing full price for taxes, and we are, our taxpayer savings is ZERO no matter what DOGE says.

Obviously missing the big picture but at least I'm getting them riled up against the current administration, and it's been easier than I thought it would be.