When you consider how much political capital was expended trying to make a measly 2% cut, you might come to a different conclusion.
I don’t find sheep adorable. They’re also quite smelly. Cats however, are super adorable. That’s why I don’t eat them. Sharks? Ugly af, right into the soup pot.
Mushrooms are adorable though. You are a monster if you eat mushrooms.
If you try to advocate your ideology to random strangers going about their day, you will get yelled at. Doesn’t matter if you’re advocating for veganism or for Jehovah’s Witnesses. I’ve never once yelled at a friend or acquaintance for talking about veganism during casual conversation.
DOGE killed USAID and made major cuts to NED, which is a huge win in my book. Other than that, I can’t say from lack of familiarity. But the concept of DOGE is good. Just unlikely that it would produce the right outcomes in the american political environment. It’s obvious to anyone who’s looked at the numbers that the “welfare” system in America (which is just a bandaid covering up underlying market inefficiencies) is deeply inefficient itself. If you’ve ever worked in a bureaucracy, you know that without oversight, bureaucracy expands only to serve its own interests, not the people. Bureaucratic positions may not need to be subjected to market discipline, but they do need to be accountable to some sort of discipline.
DOGE cuts $150 billion, about 2% of the federal budget “DOGE has cut as much government as one could hope for”
Talk about damning with faint praise
You don’t think that political capital could have been better used elsewhere? It’s a limited resource and Trump is running out of it.