"... And will in fact cost more money in the long term when it's discovered that whatever it was that was canceled, was in fact necessary, and now runs at a premium due to fucking around."
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The ones the article mentions are obligated, so they have been or must be paid. Time will tell on the 60%.
And also needed to buyout the contracts resulting in additional losses
It's almost as if efficiency and cost savings weren't actually the point.
It never has been.
For some reason people just took Republicans word that their issue was taxes paying for stuff.
They just don't want the stuff, they already pay essentially nothing in taxes, but they still want to burn the government down because without a government the oligarchs control everything.
I mean it's a effective way to prove that "the government is broken"....
It's like old-school bullies on TV
Hey nerd, why are your glasses broken?
Then the stereotypical bully snatches them and breaks them.
Considering Biff Tannon is president, it actually makes logical sense this is where we're at. Depressing as fuck tho
You expect vulture captialists see that? They think spending money now is a waste when they can have money now. And when it all comes crashing down? They'll swoop in and buy up whats left.
Correct. I'm sure what they're doing has a word, but all I can conjure with my nin-native English vocabulary is "Whatever the opposite of virtue signaling is".
I tried to look for antonyms of Virtue, but I couldn't a suitable one.
I think scumbag signaling is about as good as we can get. Not a true antonym, but sort of an all encompassing indicator that the sooner these people meet their personal Luigis, the better.
Yeah, that's pretty much spot on.
Generally speaking, the opposite of virtue is vice.
I know, but it carries a fun connotation which makes it unsuitable in this context.
This new regime is like a stack of children in a trenchcoat pretending to be an adult so they can buy fireworks. Faced with an array of Chesterton’s Fences between them and infinity sweets, they tear down all the fences. Why do we have to pay all these people? Booooring. What are all these stupid regulations for? Tear them up! No way these things might just exist to protect the government and country from much bigger costs later.
What I've been reinforcing to the conservatives in my life, with reasonable success, is that "tax payer savings" right now is like a mail-in-rebate we haven't gotten yet. Say you paid $1000 for a new TV with a $200 MIR. You paid full price, no matter what the MIR sticker is, you haven't saved the $200 until the $200 is back in your wallet. If you never get the MIR, you saved nothing.
If we're still playing full price for taxes, and we are, our taxpayer savings is ZERO no matter what DOGE says.
Obviously missing the big picture but at least I'm getting them riled up against the current administration, and it's been easier than I thought it would be.
I also like the analogy of: I saved my family a bunch of money by not paying the mortgage. The administration has no regard for the adverse consequences of their actions.
It's not about efficiency. It's about control, punishment and sabotage.
I'd bet the majority of it (if not the entirety) will cost more than it saves in the long run regardless.
The IRS workers they fired are definitely going to result in negative "savings".
Just like he fucked up Twitter