I've no shortage of self-critical thought, and your quote is perplexing because you seem to have inserted some preconception into your reading of my comment. T

I've no shortage of self-critical thought, and your quote is perplexing because you seem to have inserted some preconception into your reading of my comment. The topic is extremely polarizing by design, and is impossible to discuss without heated emotions, and therefore is never properly explored. I have no political party allegiance (partisan politics is a toxic waste dump); I try to work from "first principles", and am more than happy to adjust my understandings when compelling evidence is presented. To circle back to the OP: these program cuts are being made in the name of efficiency, but they're curiously only applied to programs that the admin is ideologically opposed to and applied in a manner meant to kill rather than trim. I find it interesting that the Military Industrial Complex -- a paragon of pork, fraud, and waste -- will not only be untouched but given even more money then before.