On: DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

[wat10000]

> overhead and ideological reprogramming

I despair at the thought process that crams these two things together.

2.5% overhead would be really good. Most charities don’t come close.

“Ideological reprogramming,” whatever that actually means, would be completely different.

[jpcom → wat10000]

It looks like USAID had 4B of the 40B budget actually reach endpoint users, which would make the overhead closer to 90% [1], not 97.5% like I originally estimated.

[1] https://chatgpt.com/share/67b7a0c4-bf48-8011-9997-41b350dd0b...

[wwtw → jpcom]

Reading this gpt answer: > In fiscal year 2022, nearly 90% of USAID's expenditures were allocated to international contracting partners

How are you figuring that none of that is reaching endpoint users? E.g. I imagine the International Red Cross could be such a partner.

[wat10000 → jpcom]

Seriously? Not even your own linked conversation supports this assertion, even though you tried to lead it there.

[jpcom → wat10000]

It's called the US Agency for International Development. Everyone seems to think "AID" is a word here. It is not, it is an acronym.

[wat10000 → jpcom]

OK, I'm aware, not sure what that has to do with anything here.