We want more efficiency, not bloated tech teams spending more and more taxpayer dollars. DOGE was heavy handed, but the cuts still needed to be made. It should have been done in a more precise manner.
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
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> You're unlikely to find any seriously critical views here. You're welcome to criticize him yourself, if you want. I suspect that your complaints will be pretty weak relative to the broader American political zeitgeist.
I've had plenty of political conversations on HN before. I've literally been on the platform for almost a decade. It's always been bent one way - which makes political dialogue a pointless endeavor.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You're unlikely to find any seriously critical views here. You're welcome to criticize him yourself, if you want. I suspect that your complaints will be pretty weak relative to the broader American political zeitgeist.
I've had plenty of political conversations on HN before. I've literally been on the platform for almost a decade. It's always been bent one way - which makes political dialogue a pointless endeavor.
Kinda sounds like a cop-out. You alleged that he's due criticism, but you're unable to levy it?
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#24so much politics on HN these days. edit: I mean politics related content
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#25We want more efficiency, not bloated tech teams spending more and more taxpayer dollars. DOGE was heavy handed, but the cuts still needed to be made. It should have been done in a more precise manner.
Budget cuts that don't touch military spending aren't real budget cuts.
Entitlements and debt payments are ~60% of the budget and the entire defense expenditure is ~12%
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've had plenty of political conversations on HN before. I've literally been on the platform for almost a decade. It's always been bent one way - which makes political dialogue a pointless endeavor.
Kinda sounds like a cop-out. You alleged that he's due criticism, but you're unable to levy it?
No, you're trying to egg me into a political conversation on HN, and I'm refusing. I thought that was pretty clear in the last comment.
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#27We want more efficiency, not bloated tech teams spending more and more taxpayer dollars. DOGE was heavy handed, but the cuts still needed to be made. It should have been done in a more precise manner.
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#28The college scorecard Lisa Gelobter lead is really useful:
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#30Two arguments that have so far, been talking completely past each other with no desire to understand each other:
1) efficiency means "use software to identify and cut federal programs that could reasonably be taken over by either the State dept, States themselves, or the market"
2) efficiency means "add new software and programs that streamline existing processes"
As usual, we should be doing both in a careful and considered way, and definitely should not be accusing the other side of either fascism or communism. "Efficiency" is not a decision on funding or not funding federal science research, and everyone using that word to mean that is being knowingly disingenuous.
There was a huge amount of bloat in USAID, and I'm sure there will be a huge amount of bloat in NYC, and I'm sure there was a lot of good in both. Unless you're willing to discuss specifics and tradeoffs with a calm head, you're not helping just by virtue of being upset.