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If you shut down websites with public data, then we can't reach accurate conclusions on scientific questions. If you shut down Direct File, we still owe taxes but it's harder to pay them. If you fire inspector generals, orgs spending govt $$ don't get audited.
lol if you want to get serious about the deficit you have to tackle the categories that make up nearly all US spending. Anyone who tells you this is about the deficit is lying to you.
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Musk has always had a philosophy of over-cutting, then restoring the critical parts, as otherwise, the natural tendency of orgs is to grow wild and inefficient.
Seemed to work pretty well for most of his other endeavours. I have my qualms, but I understand why he does it
If the goal was to shut down large parts of the government presumably they would start with the largest entitlements (as Vivek had suggested before he was pushed out). Perhaps a more parsimonious explanation is that DOGE is for owning the libs?
USAID is a CIA cutout for foreign influence and regime change operations, masquerading as foreign aid. And then a lot of that money gets laundered back to politicians of both parties. They were also financing our immigration problem.
If you don't understand why USAID was
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Around 1900, Argentina was something like the third richest country in the world. Anyone who visits Buenos Aires can see this-- there are majestic, still standing buildings from Argentina's golden era. Buildings that used to host some of the world's great corporations.
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It's possible that in 1900 Argentina was the 3rd wealthiest country *in the Western Hemisphere* (after the U.S. and Canada).
However, it was not close to 3rd wealthiest *in the world* at that time.
Most estimates place it around 12th - admittedly, still pretty wealthy.
prosperitydata360.worldbank.org/en/indicator/Q…
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Direct File was a huge improvement to our tax system that finally broke TurboTax's horrible rent-seeking stranglehold on tax prep in the United States.
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Surely there's orders of magnitude more waste in the Department of Defense than USAID. But if you just show up at the Pentagon and try to push your way in and get access to every classified system, I bet there will be a good deal more resistance.
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Spare me the sob story about how Canada is our “best friend.” I love Canada and have many Canadian friends. But is the government meeting their NATO target for military spending? Are they stopping the flow of drugs into our country?
I’m sick of being taken advantage of.
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