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Cutting 90% of 5% of the budget is not a meaningful reduction. DOGE did much less than that, and did far more harm than good.
by bryanlarsen 3mo ago
Cutting 90% of 5% of the budget is not a meaningful reduction. DOGE did much less than that, and did far more harm than good.
- econ 3mo agoYou can automate a lot but first it will cost money.
- JumpCrisscross 3mo ago> DOGE did much less than that DOGE was a culture-war fever trip. There was zero actual effort at deficit reduction or catching grift and fraud.
- Arainach 3mo agoAnyone who says "reduce bureaucracy by 90%" is on a culture war fever trip and doesn't actually care about efficient spending either.
- JumpCrisscross 3mo agoAnd anyone who claims they're going to cut spending without touching Medicare or the Pentagon is talking tripe.
- bryanlarsen 3mo agoA username of "socialismkills" is also a good signal of a social war fever trip.
- ben_w 3mo agoI'd say that's more "look at me I'm an edgy teen who wants to be taken seriously" than fever tripping culture wars; where this kind of thing would become the latter is where the owner of that username thinks modern Scandinavia is indistinguishable from the USSR.