Kevin O'Leary: DOGE isn't "whacking enough" with cuts

[IronLionZion]

Plenty of MAGAts are cheering on the thoughtless cuts thinking it won't affect them.

[turbinetree]

1. Do they do this in Canada O'Leary or does your Parliament make the adjustments......you know a democratic

form of government of we the people instead of a fascist one..............move to Russia and join the boys and girls and that system of BS .........ever read the American Kleptocracy....................

[lapfog_1]

2. at least 2 people at that table

need to be terminated with prejudice. ( from their jobs, of course ).

O'leary out and out lied. The FAA system was re-written at least in 1990. I hired one of the people into NASA from the FAA that did the re-write. It was not in COBOL. And I am certain that new technologies have been installed in the last 30 years that required further updates.

This is NOT something that needs to be done overnight... in fact you don't WANT it to be done quickly. You want it to be changed slowly over time. The famous engineering explanation is that you are re configuring and updating the plane while it is flying. This time almost literally.

The FAA can't take time off for an upgrade and reboot. There isn't the money to build a completely new system complete with a new staff ( duplicate ) to take the hand off from the retiring system. There are ALWAYS planes in the air. Planes taking off and landing. And there is only ONE FAA control system. So you must carefully upgrade things while the system is operating. Very carefully.

And the other people at the table need to question the premise... The premise is that the government is "bloated" and there is ALWAYS fat to be cut... I would have countered at that table... "OK, there are 7 of us sitting here... this table is bloated by your definition... one of you needs to be fired right now... which one of you is redundant?" Stop accepting the Reagan talking point. We need MORE government workers... skilled. to cure cancer ( and save billions in cancer treatments )... we need billions more to build a "second FAA" so we can adequately test ( in real time ) a new version of ATC while the one that keeps the planes in the air right now continues to work well. Reject the premise that the government should be run like a business, the government is NOT a business. It is there to do the things that a business would never do ( to much risk ) or to do things for the common good of everyone ( like the EPA, the DOJ, the DOE - both of them, and the DOD ).

[wolfie001]

3. I wish an intrepid reporter up there in Canada would do a deep dive on that boat trip......

.....where this pig's boat ended up killing someone. I smell cover-up. His wife was steering the boat. Right, sure. Bald-headed weasel.

[BobTheSubgenius]

4. I'm not sure I have enough words to describe how much I despise this POS.

At one time - a time that was blessed, had I but known that - I was blissfully unaware of his existence. Then, I saw him on that horrible investment cum invention show, and disliked him quite a bit. Finally, I saw a snippet of him from an interview, in which he PRAISED income and wealth inequality. Not just inequality, but MASSIVE inequality.

He said that billionaires give poor people examples to follow...goals to achieve. So, if being poor isn't making you happy, simply become a billionaire. Easy-peasy. And it wasn't just his words - although they were bad enough on their own - it was the smug, Marie Antoinette manner he had.