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@scottmcdoge Its not enough to have a plan to tear down. You need a plan to built too. Not seeing that.
That's where the privatization comes in. Elon has already tweeted "The safety of air travel is a non-partisan matter. SpaceX engineers will help make air travel safer" It is so blatent, it's ridiculous.
I think impartial observers have not spent time in actual government bureaucracy. Basically everything will seem like “they’re cutting something important!” Or “they’re stopping critical research!” because every government contract needs justification; so naturally they will all sound good. The data and accounting itself is such bad quality in all cases that it is impossible to be perfect at this; there are entire in…
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I love this reply. It's lots of serious words about the debt, and it ignores that Trump and the R party are currently trying to balloon the debt for their tax breaks.
Inflation and the US bond market will quickly sort this out. It is going to be beautiful and terrifying at the same time, the same way a cosmic collision is.
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I'm still not sold on this. I can't yet distinguish if the plan is to get rid of institutions or to gut what's their and rebuild it how the want it. We may not end up with a smaller government, just a different one.
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Home renovations starts with planing. Then you move property to place where it will be safe. Then you remove only parts you want to change.
US debt is 124% of GDP. That's not as high as UK debt after WWII, 270%, which impoverished the country that had been at the top of the world. But combined with an aging population that has more people than ever hailing from the historically low-achievement global south, you can expect some standard of living adjustment to occur. Your grandparents had a house by your age, and the economic ability to raise a family. Yo…
Initiated under President Jimmy Carter in 1977, Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) required agencies to justify their budgets from scratch rather than just adjusting from the previous year.
President Ronald Reagan pushed for privatization, deregulation, and reduced federal spending.
The Grace Commission (1982-1984), led by businessman J. Peter Grace, was tasked with identifying inefficiencies in government.
In 1993, President Bill Clinton launched the National Performance Review (later renamed the National Partnership for Reinventing Government), led by Vice President Al Gore.
The NPR aimed to make government "work better and cost less" by cutting red tape, streamlining bureaucracy, and increasing customer service.
Key successes included shifting more government services online, consolidating purchasing, and reducing federal workforce size.
Launched by President George W. Bush in 2001, the President’s Management Agenda (PMA) focused on:
Strategic management of human capital
Competitive sourcing (increasing private-sector competition for government contracts)
Financial performance improvements
E-Government expansion (improving federal websites and online services)
Budget and performance integration
2010s: DATA Act & Digital Transformation
President Barack Obama signed the DATA Act (2014), which aimed to improve transparency and accountability in government spending.
Obama also created the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) and 18F, teams dedicated to modernizing government technology.
The Trump administration’s PMA (2018) emphasized IT modernization, data transparency, and a shift to "shared services", where multiple agencies use the same administrative systems.
The Biden administration has continued these efforts, focusing on AI, cybersecurity, and digital transformation, as well as improving citizen-facing services like healthcare and tax processing.