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We’ve heard there will be “hardship”. Will any disruption in the delivery of Social Security checks and veterans’ disability checks signal an incompetence further than forgivable hardship? If the excuse comes from the richest man in the world, most Americans will say, “he didn’t get that way by giving out money.”

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Sure, that can happen, but there's still a question: Do we need to have 2.4M employed to distribute those checks?

Just look at Argentina's overnight transformation. It's literally Musk's playbook. One can argue that most governments and most public institutions and most publicly funded NGOs (which is weird) are stuffed full of inefficiencies and wasteful policies. It's not the people themselves, they are fully capable of producing values (and they want to) if placed in the right spots, it's the architecture and the system that evolved over the decades. When the government is the single biggest employer of the country, it's time for a cleanup.

2.4m seems low to me. It takes a huge amount of time to investigate fraud. I’m a “Law and Order” kind of guy.

Less than 2.3M, but who's counting?

Examine the numbers yourself: [https://www.fedscope.opm.gov/]

The VA is the largest at over 400,000 employees. But all the DoD components add up to more. I'm sure firing all the VA staff and all the soldiers/sailors/airmen will work out great.

Thank you.

I hope we can rebalance what it means to be compensated for disability. Sen. Duckworth lost both legs and has a rating of 20%. I think about that whenever I hear a veteran describe the process of shopping for a high rating.

How much hardship will the 2 DOGE Czars experience?

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