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by nmz 484 days ago
> Its not our Job to aid the world. Foreign aid is a huge money laundering scam by and large. We have major problems here on our own shores.

Not that huge, not a scam either given America is so deeply hated on most of the world, America decided to fight and kill everyone who even thought about "communism" whatever that meant, USAID is its foreign marketing team. Seems like it doesn't want to market itself. that's fine, You also quoted medicare and snap there, I hope you're not one of those that think having well fed people and farmers is not part of a governments job.

> Good. Maybe we can actually build some more nuclear plants instead of having to fight green energy bureaucracy.

If you can't build a nuclear power plant safely, maybe you shouldn't build it at all. Also some firings were people who handle the nuclear weapons.

> Circumstantial timing. The FAA has been having close calls before it was gutted. The government can do more with less. The plane crashes will stop when we return to meritocracy.

It's so great that you mention doing more with less and a meritocracy in this instance given that, the washout rate for being an air traffic controller is incredibly high and there is a deficit of air traffic controllers.

https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/one-thing/episodes/8b310a...

> The government can do more with less.

Can it though?

https://www.gq.com/story/no-irs-audits-for-the-rich

> The cuts are depleting the staff members who help ensure that taxpayers pay what they owe. As of [2017], the IRS had 9,510 auditors. That’s down a third from 2010. The last time the IRS had fewer than 10,000 revenue agents was 1953, when the economy was a seventh of its current size. And the IRS is still shrinking. Almost a third of its remaining employees will be eligible to retire in the next year, and with morale plummeting, many of them will.

> The plane crashes will stop when we return to meritocracy.

Return to when? When was this true?

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>Not that huge

Doesnt matter how huge, its a waste of money doing DEI programs in Burma.

>If you can't build a nuclear power plant safely

plenty of safe nuke plants running and they are building more for datacenters

>washout rate for being an air traffic controller is incredibly high

not really a problem of government spending unless you are saying they should pay more? not sure what youre getting at

>Can it though?

Yes it can I mean afterall we had no income tax during the industrial revolution

>Return to when? When was this true?

this was true when we hired people based on merit and not immutable characteristics.

> Doesnt matter how huge, its a waste of money doing DEI programs in Burma.

That's opinion.

> plenty of safe nuke plants running and they are building more for datacenters

Yeah, and they were doing it safely.

> not really a problem of government spending unless you are saying they should pay more? not sure what youre getting at

You do, you're just ignoring it on purpose.

> Yes it can I mean afterall we had no income tax during the industrial revolution

And now you do, because it was necessary, back when it was implemented... this is just ignoring economic history.

Also, Industrial revolution!? the 1800s!? huh!?

Of course there was small government back then, the government only worked for landowners, not blacks or even women. Just white land owners. There wasn't even plumbing back then on most of america, barely any public utility, hell there wasn't even electricity, there was literally nothing to do apart from not dying of cholera.

plus the slaves/women did everything for free and if they died you just replaced them.

> this was true when we hired people based on merit and not immutable characteristics.

Pretty sure you're still hiring doctors and people with degrees, just now you have to hire a black one sometimes. what's so bad about a 1% in diversity hires?

(also trans people have mutable charactistics, ha)

>That's opinion.

That's opinion

>Yeah, and they were doing it safely.

That's opinion.

>And now you do, because it was necessary, back when it was implemented... this is just ignoring economic history.

You mean the centuries of history with public works projects that didnt require taxes?

>Also, Industrial revolution!? the 1800s!? huh!?

I obviously mean at the turn of the 20th century with the huge leaps in applied sciences and engineering giving us planes trains and automobiles. All done without taxes before 1913. You know, the greatest period of advancement in modern history?

>what's so bad about a 1% in diversity hires?

What's so good about it exactly? It does a disservice to everyone including the diversity hire.

>(also trans people have mutable charactistics, ha)

body dysmorphia is mental illness as evidenced by the ~40% suicide rate. Hows that for an opinion (Fact)?