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Originally Posted by BIC_BAWS
As someone new to government work, but with previous experience in a small business and my own businesses, I'd definitely say that government is mind numbingly slow, inefficient and there's a lot of redundant departments. I think it's due to funds oversight, so they just keep opening new organizations to focus on subsets of mandates.
Why is there a Trade & Invest BC, Invest BC, Innovate BC, and InvestVancouver via Metro Van? It's like using M365 and finding out there are 4 apps that manage your to-do list. WHY?
Government oversight is important when it comes to ensuring that public funds are all accounted for. OTOH, it also creates a bunch of roadblocks for "out of scope" work so they make entirely new orgs with mandates that basically ensure that it's within scope. For example, I'm currently working on a BC based initiative that can't be funded by the Province of BC because the non-profit I work for is an organization with national mandates.
However, what DOGE seems to be doing for Elon is removing government oversight and keeping all the yes-men, so he can do whatever he wants without consequence. BTW, AKA CHINA.
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I think that what Musk is doing with DOGE is more than just removing government oversight and regulations.
We see clear conflicts of interest when he complains about Verizon having a 2 billion plus contract with the Federal Aviation Administration to upgrade to a new air traffic control system. Of course, this fucking Nazi wants his Starlink company to get a government contract so that he profits even more with Starlink getting a project to upgrade the air traffic control system for the entire American airspace.
Things don't work that way in the government or in the private sector.
I'm sure that Musk realizes that Verizon would come down hard on the American government with a lawsuit for breach of contract. Verizon signed this contract the U.S. government about two years ago. You cannot just back out of a contract. A lawsuit from a potential breach of contract would wind up in the American court system for years.
Elon is probably gonna ask Trump to give him a contract for Starlink so that he can profit from a contract to upgrade the air traffic control system for small, non international flight airports in Alaska and other states.
He and his cronies are probably going through every government contract with contractors to find areas where his companies can take business away from another contractor.