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Where are the protests of waste uncovered by DOGE?

| February 27, 2025 1:00 AM

To the numerous Elon Musk protestors, why don’t I see you protesting the astonishing waste that DOGE has uncovered?

DOGE uncovered $6 million spent on tourism in Egypt while the school buildings in our own school district are disintegrating because the government doesn’t have the money to fix them.

How do you protestors look into the eyes of the parents of an inner-city child killed in a drive-by shooting and proudly tell them it’s more important to spend $2.5 million on electric cars in Vietnam than on law enforcement in their community? 

When you hear a homeless veteran, who left a piece of his very soul on some God-forsaken battlefield, ask you for help, do you ignore him because spending $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala is more important than his sacrifice?

USAID sent “hundreds of thousands of meals” to al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria. I’m so very glad to know the hunger crisis in Bonner County has been completely solved.

So, when you scream your protests about Elon Musk and not the waste and fraud he uncovered, I seem to be hearing Shakespeare instead, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”  


BERT WALLIS

Sagle