Has anyone seen the "Doge clock"?

[D_Master81]

The national debt clock website has apparently added a “Doge clock” which tracks how much money the Doge department has saved in federal spending. I hadn’t heard of it until recently when a Trumper I know started popping off about how they e already saved 60 billion in 2 weeks. My question is where on earth are these numbers coming from??? 60 billion in 2 weeks extrapolated out over a year is $1.5 trillion. We are to believe they can fit a trillion and a half “wasteful” dollars a year? Come on

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Beware of marking immediate savings to the book, but ignoring medium and long term costs

Eliminating medicare and ACA would save money immediately, but the loss of productivity along with ultimately increased health care costs would be quite damaging to the country.

[Phoenix61]

2. About that clock.

“The Durst Organization owns and maintains the US Debt Clock. Douglas Durst became the president of the Durst Organization after his father's death. Artkraft Strauss is responsible for keeping the figures on the clock up to date.”

“All the debt clocks on the site are updated continuously to the most precise calculations, using complex formulas and exacting standards, and the values displayed are verified from the best sources available.”

The Durst Organization is a realty company.

[valleyrogue]

9. The late murderer Robert Durst was involved in it until he was bought out. n/t

[Phoenix61]

10. Interesting. The Durst family still owns and runs it.

Maybe the family bought him out?

[valleyrogue]

11. They did. They wanted him gone. They were scared to death of him.

They bought him out in 2006 for $65 million.

[blogslug]

3. Do you mean the billboard clock, installed and maintained by the Durst family?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Debt_Clock
https://www.durst.org/about/clock

If so, their website doesn't post a live version of the clock. Perhaps there's a webcam pointed at it online?

[D_Master81]

6. No the website usedebtclock

https://www.usdebtclock.org/

[blogslug]

7. okay, well

lol. no

[lame54]

4. It actually measures...

The dollar amount they are moving to their personal accounts

[LeftinOH]

5. It's all theater. The "numbers" are made up.

[valleyrogue]

8. It is BS like everything else.

They haven't "saved" anything because they have no authority to cut funding or to get rid of departments.