Musk's leaves legacy of disease, starvation and death
By Michelle Goldberg / The New York Times
There is an Elon Musk post on X, his social media platform, that should define his legacy. We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper, he wrote Feb. 3. He could have gone to some great parties. Did that instead.
Musks absurd scheme to save the government a trillion dollars by slashing waste, fraud and abuse has been a failure. The Department of Government Efficiency claims it has saved $175 billion, but experts believe the real number is significantly lower. Meanwhile, according to the Partnership for Public Service, which studies the federal workforce, DOGEs attacks on government personnel its firings, rehirings, use of paid administrative leave and all the associated lack of productivity could cost the government upward of $135 billion this fiscal year, even before the price of defending DOGEs actions in court. Musks rampage through the bureaucracy may not have created any savings at all, and if it did, they were negligible.
Now, Musks Washington adventure is coming to an end, with the disillusioned billionaire announcing that hes leaving government behind. It sure is an uphill battle trying to improve things in D.C., to say the least, he told The Washington Post.
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred the United States Agency for International Development. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of USAID grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musks foray into politics accomplished.
https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/goldberg-musks-leaves-legacy-of-disease-starvation-and-death/
And he got really butt hurt when Bill Gates pointed this out.

eppur_se_muova
(39,078 posts)is how Gates described it.
Irish_Dem
(70,495 posts)his illegal and unethical business practices.
He works for Putin and himself.