Elon Musk Reveals DOGE’s Latest Jaw-Dropping Discovery In New Interview

[Valletta]

Among the “mind-blowing” findings was a simple survey on Americans’ use of the U.S. National Parks, whose department receives approximately $3.3 billion in annual funding. According to Musk, a contractor was charging nearly a third of the department’s entire budget to perform a survey that could have been built and disseminated for far less on a service like Survey Monkey.

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After two months on the job, the casual nature of eye-popping waste in the federal government is still managing to shock Elon Musk on a regular basis. The Tesla founder and cost-cutting advisor to President Donald Trump was joined on Fox News by seven of his top lieutenants from DOGE, the U.S...

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For those of you who are not going to watch the interview the example of this ten question survey should help you understand what is going on.

 

[Pommer]

Among the “mind-blowing” findings was a simple survey on Americans’ use of the U.S. National Parks, whose department receives approximately $3.3 billion in annual funding. According to Musk, a contractor was charging nearly a third of the department’s entire budget to perform a survey that could have been built and disseminated for far less on a service like Survey Monkey.

JUST IN: Elon Reveals DOGE’s Latest Jaw-Dropping Discovery In New Interview

After two months on the job, the casual nature of eye-popping waste in the federal government is still managing to shock Elon Musk on a regular basis. The Tesla founder and cost-cutting advisor to President Donald Trump was joined on Fox News by seven of his top lieutenants from DOGE, the U.S...

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For those of you who are not going to watch the interview the example of this ten question survey should help you understand what is going on.

The lede in the story describes Musk as the “Tesla founder”, why should we believe anything about the article if they can’t even get that correct?

 

[Fantine]

I have a better idea. If Survey Monkey is so reliable, let's use it for the next census. We'll sure find a whole lot of undocumented immigrants if we use a voluntary program like Survey Monkey.

 

[jacks]

A billion dollars for an on-line survey? If this is true, (even it was just a 10th of that) I can't see why anyone would defend it.

 

[linux.poet]

The federal government needs to hire me to write this. Producing a basic 10 question online survey takes about 2 days worth of work, and, assuming that you have secure existing database infrastructure, maybe about an additional day to secure it properly so that a teenager can’t bleed your data from the page by typing database commands into the survey response sections.

3 8-hour days = 24 hours x $40 an hour = $960. That’s about a $1000. They could have hired a freelancer on Upwork for $1K to make this thing.

$1000 /$1 billion = 1 E-9. The government got overcharged by 10,000,000% for the job. Ridiculous.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

The lede in the story describes Musk as the “Tesla founder”, why should we believe anything about the article if they can’t even get that correct?

Careful, Musk took the real Tesla founders to court for saying that he wasn't a founder. I remember back when I founded walmart back ten years before I was born.

 

[Richard T]

I would like to see the survey and the authorization for the spending. Seems too far-fetched. Here is the best I could find. https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/fy2024-nps-greenbook.pdf-508.pdf The word survey is mentioned over 50 times. It generally refers to survey's of land, historical buildings, and even hazardous materials. I only scanned the budget briefly but I think a glaring expenditure like that would have caught someone's attention. So for now I think it is exaggerated but there has to be more info somewhere.

 

[Say it aint so]

Heed caution.

A lot of the DOGE "well lookie here" claims of fraud and abuse, turn out not to be so much and are quietly deleted or see downward corrections.