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In the US, but basically it is a global phenomenon, government spending is out of control and unsustainable - Argentina showed us the way.
Wish we had DOGE in the EU. We need less unproductive bureaucrats not more.
Maybe, and I say maybe, before starting to dismantle core-agencies needed for the maintenance and management of a state, one should look into the meddling between private and public interests. Like, how much of our money is being used to sustain dead-end projects such as Ai development or fossil fuel? Do we want to also look into the military spending and the paths grants provided to this end follow?
If Argentina has taught us anything is that leaving citizens without services makes the lives of those same citizens even worse. The results of no hospital, schools, or state management agencies will be shown in some years, can't wait to see libertarians trying to spin that situation in a positive way
Nope. Argentina is recovering from the illness of socialism.
Oh yes, cut spending by eliminating agencies needed by the people to have a decent life in a developed society and present the resulting savings as a victory.
It's like a company manager firing most of its employees and selling it's machines presenting the administrative books at the next shareholders meeting. Much profits, wow! And then the year after the company goes bankrupt and foreclose, who can say why this has happened??? Must have been the invisible hand free market!!! Fs fs, on god
Bureaucrats don't produce they leech. Free markets improve lives of ordinary citizens not paper pushers.
We don't have a free market. And letting the business owners do the ransacking will make it even less of a free market. You're over here rooting for corporate capture.
Elon just awarded himself 100s of millions in government contacts for cars that fucking fall apart. He's dumping his trash product off on you, the taxpayer's dime. And you're cheering him on
Did you just call AI development a dead end? Hoo boy