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applegrove

(133,103 posts)
Tue Feb 18, 2025, 04:20 AM Feb 2025

Pete Buttigieg: If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

Pete Buttigieg (@petebuttigieg.bsky.social) 2025-02-17T14:17:04.460Z


If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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Pete Buttigieg: If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted (Original Post) applegrove Feb 2025 OP
Problem is that trump convinced his supporters that inspector generals didn't do their jobs. Silent Type Feb 2025 #1
This is truth. Figarosmom Feb 2025 #2
The Trump bidness model Mopar151 Sep 2025 #3
 

Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
1. Problem is that trump convinced his supporters that inspector generals didn't do their jobs.
Tue Feb 18, 2025, 04:49 AM
Feb 2025

And trump will replace them with somebody, likely another white wing henchman.

Mopar151

(10,349 posts)
3. The Trump bidness model
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 03:30 PM
Sep 2025

Build in plenty of waste and fraud! That's where the incompetent crooks make their money.
Unlike ROI or EBIT, skims, kickbacks, and duplicate billing yield quick cash, long before you fail the audit. "Those meddling kids!!!!!"

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