{"id":17344,"date":"2025-04-15T14:23:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17344"},"modified":"2025-04-15T14:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:23:27","slug":"doge-a-huge-failure-completely-unable-to-cut-u-s-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17344","title":{"rendered":"DOGE: A huge FAILURE completely UNABLE to cut U.S. spending"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Examples and studies show that sometimes firing lots of government workers actually makes the government less efficient because those agencies and departments are understaffed. DOGE is firing any workers it can, not searching for actually unnecessary&nbsp;or bad workers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DOGE: A huge FAILURE completely UNABLE to cut U.S. spending | @visualeconomiken\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MycHGpcybB8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Examples and studies show that sometimes firing lots of government workers actually makes the government less efficient because those agencies and departments are understaffed. DOGE is firing any workers it can, not searching for actually unnecessary or bad workers. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MycHGpcybB8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[617,2131,221,1598,1827,1193,279,170],"class_list":["post-17344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bureaucracy","tag-doge","tag-donald-trump","tag-elon-musk","tag-fire","tag-government-spending","tag-spending","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17345,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17344\/revisions\/17345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}