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0.61% with just a few contracts
by PaywallBuster 1y ago
0.61% with just a few contracts
- supplied_demand 1y agoWere these one-year contracts?
- btucker 1y agoI'm sure PaywallBuster has reviewed these and confirmed they were one-year spending before making their statement.
- josephg 1y agoIt might be a small percentage of the pentagon’s budget. But it’s still $5.1bn of taxpayer money being reigned in here. It’s $13 per person in the country. You could do an awful lot of good with that kind of money - from space programs to science funding.
- cma 1y agoThe article doesn't say the length of the contract or really anything about what it was for.
- pjc50 1y ago> from space programs to science funding. ... which have also been randomly cut.
- dagw 1y agoBut it’s still $5.1bn of taxpayer money being reigned in here That's assuming that all those consultants were not providing any value and that they don't need to be replaced by hiring more staff.
- shusson 1y agoWhat if they are providing negative value?
- jghn 1y ago> You could do an awful lot of good with that kind of money Or given to billionaires
- 3D30497420 1y agoExactly. Most of these "savings" will be fed into significant tax cuts that are almost certainly going to benefit the rich more than anyone else.
- r00fus 1y agoDOGE is involved - do you think anything is going back to useful programs? More likely they'll just buy more SpaceX and Tesla.
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- pavel_lishin 1y ago> You could do an awful lot of good with that kind of money - from space programs to science funding. We sure could. Will we?
- ajross 1y agoThose are surely the total contract sizes, not yearly billing.