DOGE wants businesses to run government services 'as much as possible'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

March 30, 2025 at 8:05 a.m. EDT


Mail delivery. Real estate. Foreign aid grants. The Trump administration is moving to privatize a sweeping number of government functions and assets — a long-standing Republican goal that’s being catalyzed by billionaire Elon Musk.
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The slash-and-burn approach of Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is paving the way for a new shift to the private sector, reducing the size and power of the federal bureaucracy in a real-world test of the conservative theory — a version of which is also widely popular in Silicon Valley — that companies are better than government at saving money and responding to people’s needs.

Examples are popping up across Washington and in proposals from President Donald Trump’s allies, though the plans are various stages of development and, in some cases, have already encountered resistance.

At the DOGE-allied General Services Administration, officials are quietly moving ahead with a push to sell hundreds of publicly owned buildings to private companies — which can then lease them back to the government, theoretically saving maintenance and upkeep costs for taxpayers, according to two people briefed on internal deliberations who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss them publicly.

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This is how clueless they are - more than half the "government workforce" ARE "contractors" = "privatization".

All those DOGE orgy parties "cancelling contracts" WAS the "cancelling" of "private industry". Those people aren't "civil service" employees. That was all done 30 years ago, not long after the dumbass actually moved to the U.S.



(from here - https://www.brookings.edu/articles/is-government-too-big-reflections-on-the-size-and-composition-of-todays-federal-government/)

And there really aren't that many "government (GSA)-owned" buildings either. Much of the space that employees have been working in (especially outside of D.C.) were/are leased PRIVATE space.

[Henry203]

1. Business in America

Is terrible service. Take call centers. Private business is non stop bad phone trees and foreign poorly trained people. Compare that to Social Security or Medicare. The absolutely best customer service.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. The "call centers" in the federal government

aren't just a big room of civil servants - most of it is "contracted out" - or at least "was" until the DOGE boys started cancelling the contracts, clueless about what they were for.

And what they also don't "get" is that depending on how the contract is written, those "contractors" could be working ONSITE or OFFSITE. So if you walk in a room with lots of people with headsets - they are probably contractors working "onsite" (which is "cheaper" because the government isn't paying for them to work offsite at their contractor facility).

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Because, example, business-run health care has been so good for Americans - - - /sad sarc. . . . nt

[William Seger]

5. They're just "responding to people's needs" as a profit center

... and squeezing it for everything it's worth, as any business should be expected to do — that's why they exist — which is Reason #1 why government services should not be privatized.

[travelingthrulife]

11. Always more expensive and less efficient. And good luck talking to a human.

[Ilsa]

3. So stupid. There has to be profit, big bonuses for

worthless CEOs, and people get screwed over or die before the "free" market adjusts to running off the loser companies.

[highplainsdem]

4. They want corruption Trump and Musk will oversee.

[yliza]

7. And there it is

Privatization, the destroyer of democracy. This was the goal all along.

[Historic NY]

8. For profit not for people

[Hugin]

9. Applied fascism.

Endorsed by Nazis.

[delisen]

10. Republican businesses want no-risk govt contracts. Free lunch. nt

[Bengus81]

12. Right...and WHO will be the one buying a load of those buildings at no doubt

fire sale prices so they can lease them back at ridiculous rates? Watch for all the phony Corporate dummy names and trying to hide the real owners. How many will Trumps punk ass kids get their hands on?


Corruption going into outer space on this one.