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Re: Vivek Ramaswamy on X: "Will entire agencies be deleted? Answer: yes

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Post by rsynnott » Thu, Nov 21, 2024, 4:56 PM UTC

akmarinov wrote: post #101

rsynnott wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As a person who has no idea what most of the agencies do "As a person who doesn't know anything about this, here are my ideas" is, er, one approach to things, I suppose (as someone else mentioned, you've just given the FBI a fleet of over 2,000 watercraft, which doesn't seem terribly sensible).

The FBI doesn’t need watercraft, just sell them off - this is too easy

No, no, that would be wasteful. Simply make it a policy that FBI agents travel by boat. This would of course require the building of an extremely extensive national network of canals, but I think you'll agree that it's a small price to pay, and the FEMA people who the FBI would also inherit under this plan should have plenty of expertise in hydraulic engineering.

Re: Vivek Ramaswamy on X: "Will entire agencies be deleted? Answer: yes

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Post by jfengel » Thu, Nov 21, 2024, 8:04 PM UTC

Yeah. Elections have consequences.

Everybody who stayed home, and decided that they'd be fine with a Trump Presidency... this is your fault. I know your whole litany of excuses. Let them keep you warm, while the greater of two evils actually does the evils they said they were going to do.

Re: Vivek Ramaswamy on X: "Will entire agencies be deleted? Answer: yes

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Post by igetspam » Fri, Nov 22, 2024, 2:12 PM UTC

steveoscaro wrote: post #7

mattgibson wrote: post #5

This 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?

No. Nobody voted for a non government agency, run by Musk and Ramaswamy, to be part of the decision making process for the government.

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Post by loongloong » Sat, Nov 23, 2024, 1:54 PM UTC

There's a lot of discussion about the forest.. how about some discussion on the trees? Both are important?

I worry about cuts to departments that is on clean energy, EV, sustainability in general. (For thinking that Musk is in that industry so it wouldn't happen, there's consideration that cuts on Govt support in that area will actually benefit the one that's ahead.. that's Tesla for the charging network, the EV sales, the peaker plant replacements, etc.)