Vivek Ramaswamy on X: "Will entire agencies be deleted? Answer: yes
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Re: Vivek Ramaswamy on X: "Will entire agencies be deleted? Answer: yes
#2I like the framing of agencies as task forces, because it gives clear goals, then it prepares people for knowing it’s temporary. It also provides an off ramp to resist a situation where admin and bureaucracy always grows.
Re: Vivek Ramaswamy on X: "Will entire agencies be deleted? Answer: yes
#3Real scorched earth policy going on over there.
Re: Vivek Ramaswamy on X: "Will entire agencies be deleted? Answer: yes
#4Real scorched earth policy going on over there.
worked for Argentina
Re: Vivek Ramaswamy on X: "Will entire agencies be deleted? Answer: yes
#5This looks horribly like failing to understand Chesterton's fence https://thoughtbot.com/blog/chestertons-fence
The agencies were democratically put in place for a reason. Removing them with no public discussion of the original reasoning is deeply undemocratic. At the very least, someone thought that the cost of having them in place was less than the cost to society of not having them there. Has that changed?
Re: Vivek Ramaswamy on X: "Will entire agencies be deleted? Answer: yes
#6I like the framing of agencies as task forces, because it gives clear goals, then it prepares people for knowing it’s temporary. It also provides an off ramp to resist a situation where admin and bureaucracy always grows.
What is “temporary” about stopping corporations from poisoning local ecosystems for profit?
What is “temporary” about validating new food or pharmaceutical products?
Re: Vivek Ramaswamy on X: "Will entire agencies be deleted? Answer: yes
#7This looks horribly like failing to understand Chesterton's fence https://thoughtbot.com/blog/chestertons-fence The agencies were democratically put in place for a reason. Removing them with no public discussion of the original reasoning is deeply undemocratic. At the very least, someone thought that the cost of having them in place was less than the cost to society of not having them there. Has that changed?
Didn't a democracy vote in the people that are saying they want to remove some agencies? Isn't that also how the agencies came to be in the first place?
Re: Vivek Ramaswamy on X: "Will entire agencies be deleted? Answer: yes
#8Re: Vivek Ramaswamy on X: "Will entire agencies be deleted? Answer: yes
#9This looks horribly like failing to understand Chesterton's fence https://thoughtbot.com/blog/chestertons-fence The agencies were democratically put in place for a reason. Removing them with no public discussion of the original reasoning is deeply undemocratic. At the very least, someone thought that the cost of having them in place was less than the cost to society of not having them there. Has that changed?
These people don’t want to understand anything. They also don’t want to change anything. They just want the appearance of a steamroller so they can raise more money. Rinse and repeat.