> The straw man is pushing the idea that nothing should ever be touched because all of it is essential Nobody ever said that. They suggested that a bunch of pe

> The straw man is pushing the idea that nothing should ever be touched because all of it is essential Nobody ever said that. They suggested that a bunch of people with no idea how anything in government worked or even the basic numeracy skills to tell the difference between a million and a billion dishing out firings with zero knowledge of who they were firing and bragging about it (with an occasional "oops maybe we shouldn't have fired the guys protecting us from nukes or Ebola) didn't look like a solution. So yes, it's a straw man entirely of your own construction. I mean, if you're sincerely interested in cutting stuff that's absolute waste you'd maybe start with not charging Secret Service personnel 5x the market rate to stay at places like Mar-a-Lago for a cool $2m income for the president's personal business, not with firing people who create tax filing tools. > BTW, I keep reading and hearing derogative terms like "script kiddies" and "20 year olds". What's happened to diversity and inclusion? The government banned it, remember. In favour of "meritocracy". So I'm wondering what merit an 18 year old with two internships (fired from one) and no professional experience has demonstrated in the auditing of government employees? I think there's also a magical ability bar, and I'd set that a bit higher than being unable to tell the difference between a million and a billion when summing up their achievements in a public facing communication. Probably a whole pool of candidates out there that have never tried to procure DDoS attacks; most otherwise-equally-unqualified 18 year olds haven't never mind most people who understand how to audit government departments or at least how to read a balance sheet. But yeah, it does look a whole lot like DEI for people that would definitely have to delete their social media to get a regular job. You like DEI now the beneficiaries are unqualified edgelords rather than qualified people who are black or female? > Write a check right now for $50K to the federal government to keep the employees being fired As I understand it, the topic is Mark Cuban proposing a bigger check to them...