Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?

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:
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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.

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Comes as a *total* shock, lemmetellya.

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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?
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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.
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