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> nor have I given that impression, to find individual examples of government waste and specifically fix those Yes, you did. You gave that impression when you said OP was right to point out the list of specific items. People weren’t disagreeing that small items exist, they were pointing out that worrying about them doesn’t fix very much waste, which is true. So they were also right. If you aren’t going to come up wit…
They’re not right though because “don’t need to worry about them” doesn’t make sense. What do you mean worry? That sounds like “we don’t need to fix small line-item waste” which I simply reject for being dumb. If I make half a million/year and I have a $5 subscription I don’t “not worry about it” if it’s a waste of money. I cancel it. There is no major difference when that is scaled up to organizations besides lack o…
“We should stop waste” is a tautology. Nobody here has disagreed with that, and I don’t think you understand that yet. The only thing that matters is what the waste actually is, whether everyone agrees it’s waste, and what to do to fix it.
I honestly hoped for a more substantive discussion, and some real examples, but as you wish, I’m fine stopping here, even though giving up turns this conversation into somewhat of a waste.