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literally part of the national GOP platform So you really think whatever they tell you is true? The GOP has not actually shrunk the government. Even when they

• anigbrowl 11y ago
  The poster above is saying that it's part of the GOP's political agenda that's marketed to voters, rather than necessarily what they do once they're in office.
  • throwaway0492 11y ago
    No he's not. It's called a "thread". He's replying to a post that says "Just a talking point--empirically that's not true." and he's saying it's more than a talking point because it's in the GOP platform.
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• acdha 11y ago
  Lately they have cut things – the sequester was real and will be causing damage for decades[1] – but generally in the least productive ways possible. That gives them something to point at while still leaving plenty to rant about and, of course, more chances to grandstand over self-created problems like backlogs at the IRS, VA, etc. I'm sure we're going to hear plenty about this security breach and nobody will mention that the federal pay scale tops out below what the average infosec professional makes or that agencies have been begging for funding to improve their IT staff for years. 1. Most young scientists are leaving research due to budget cuts at NIH, NSF, NASA, etc. They're unlikely to ever come back so we've lost a large chunk of an entire generation of research in most fields. Sure, many of them are going to industry but I would submit that a crop of data scientists selling ads is less productive for the country long-term than all of the foundational pure research which industry rarely funds.