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by scarab92
489 days ago
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The government share of GDP is a silly thing to care about. The important questions are: 1. What services do voters want (enough to pay for) 2. How can we meet that need at the lowest cost The first has a broad range of valid answers, the second is something that everyone ignored until DOGE |
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They cared plenty before, and there's no real indication to me of a difference with DOGE.
Both pre- and post-DOGE, it's all about weird anecdotes like "this wrench cost $20,000! This toilet seat cost $600!"[0], which, even at their current rate of work, would only amount to a rounding error compared to the $2 trillion they talk about cutting.
Which is probably for the best, because the $2 trillion goal — about the combined total of the entire US social security system plus all military pensions — is so large that "success" will cause a huge recession.
[0] https://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/378125...