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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 00:33:16 +0100
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On 30/05/2025 20:21, % wrote:
> Joel wrote:
>> John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 30 May 2025 07:22:51 -0000 (UTC)
>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, I guess that’s over, now that Elon Musk has left the building.
>>>> That’s the end of DOGE, without “saving” anywhere near the trillion
>>>> dollars he originally promised.
>>>
>>> Comes as a *total* shock, lemmetellya.
>>
>>
>> Let's say they had cut that much with this DOGE BS (not that it's 100%
>> a stupid idea, of course, but they were not approaching very
>> rationally), wouldn't the proposed tax breaks offset it?  Wouldn't we
>> still be spending a large fortune every year on the damn military?
>>
> no because there would be tariffs that go to trumps pocket

Military spending is pretty low in reality.

And it is a *pragmatic* program, whereas so much is spent on purely 
*moral* initiatives to employ people who think they can therefore tell 
how to run your life better than you can yourself.

-- 
"Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social 
conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the 
windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor.) "

Alan Sokal