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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fascinating article on a recent large protest in Denver.  https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/gps-data-reveals-bernie-sanders-aoc-rally-was-artificial-full-antifablm-pro-hamas-pro[/quote]

lol - come back to me when zerohedge is not your information source 😂[/quote]

https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1903677337406992400[/quote]

If you believe that they can tell this from people's cell phone data, then there's probably no conspiracy theory you won't believe:

[i]84% of the devices present had attended 9 or more Kamala Harris rallies, antifa/blm, pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian protests, 31% had attended over 20. [/i][/quote]

You’re probably right.  It makes more sense that Coloradans spontaneously took to the streets to [b]defend DC bureaucrats “right” to lifetime tenured employment st taxpayer expense[/b].  [/quote]

Liar. Government employees in the US generally do not have a legal right to lifetime employment, but they do have protections against arbitrary or politically motivated termination, especially after completing an initial probationary period. Prove that they have the "right to lifetime tenure employment" or STFU.
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Republicans favor small government. Any reduction by a Republican is politically motivated. So when can we reduce the size of government?[/quote]

[b]The Clinton administration undertook a massive reduction in the size of the federal bureaucracy[/b]. The goal is debatable. The DOGE approach is reprehensible. 
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I didn't remember that initiative but I looked it up and you are correct. Some highlights below from an article describing the initiative and comparing it to DOGE. Bottom line: Clinton did it first and did it better, without disrupting government services or maligning govt employees. He's also the last president to deliver a balance federal budget.

The National Partnership for Reinventing Government, or REGO as it was known, was spearheaded by Al Gore and aimed at streamlining processes and cutting red tape. The initiative was recognized as successful, having delivered four consecutive budget surpluses — the last time there was a balanced federal budget. Touting its success, President Clinton said in his 1996 State of the Union address: "We have worked to give the American people a smaller, less bureaucratic government in Washington. And we have to give the American people one that lives within its means. The era of big government is over."

The cuts that Clinton made to the federal workforce followed a six-month period called the National Performance Review, launched in March 1993, soon after he took office. The review process ended in September of that year with a report that found nearly 400 recommendations, which Clinton then implemented gradually so that essential services were not interrupted even as the workforce shrank considerably.

The Clinton administration ended up making sizable cuts to the federal workforce with REGO, reducing headcount by 20 percent — some 351,000 positions — though Winogard recalled that only 10 percent of those layoffs were involuntary.

How Bill Clinton Shrunk the Federal Government 30 Years Before DOGE
https://www.newsweek.com/how-bill-clinton-shrunk-federal-government-30-years-before-doge-2032893[/quote]

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