Ok we've cut all the fat, now what?

[Bray123]

I was surprised it still exists 23 years later. There's nothing about 9/11 that makes it more special than other events with many deaths and injuries. Survivors can use the same FEMA, SSDI, and Medicare/caid resources used by any disaster survivor. Cutting the waste out of those and making them work as well as they can would do much more than making a separate fund for every disaster. If New York wants to keep it, that should be a state funded project.

He was so happy about 9/11, he pretended that he'd watched it happen and boasted that he now owned the tallest building in New York (which as you'd expect, was a lie).

 

[Holy_Seduction]

‘cutting funds …’

Or, diverting them to buy munitions?

 

[JohnEngelman]

The terms "waste, fraud, and abuse," imply that the government is spending fortunes on things like screwdrivers costing several hundred dollars each, and so on. There is virtually none of that in the federal budget. What there is are programs that rich, powerful, and selfish people like Elon Musk do not need, or do not like for ideological reasons. For example, Musk would like to end federal funding for National Public Radio. I love National Public Radio! That is where I get most of my news. Firing civil servants in the Internal Revenue Service makes it easier for rich people to avoid paying what they should be paying in income taxes. Firing people whose job it is to enforce environmental standards leads to a dirtier environment, and so on. It is not possible to cut nearly one third of the federal budget without reducing the ability of the government to do what most voters want the government to be doing.

For many reactionaries any government spending other than for the military is "waste, fraud, and abuse."

 

[coati]

President Musk is cutting more muscle than fat. Between what he is doing and what his paid idiot is doing in the White House, the GOP will once again crash the U.S. economy.

The sooner they do it, the better.

 

[butters]

Government agency considers shutting down key research command center: 'It looks like our monitoring program will soon be dead'

and we all know why.
Sampling equipment that requires shipping around the world is already fucked because the gov't payment card to make these transactions is suddenly no longer working and obviously the scientists understand what this probably means for the site whose importance in determining global pollution and the upkeep of 'models' is second to none.

Founded in 1956, the observatory is known as "the birthplace of global carbon dioxide monitoring" because it "maintains the world's longest record of measurements of atmospheric CO2,"

The support office is listed by DOGE as being located in Hilo, and it is, per Reuters, one of more than 20 offices rented by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that faces the possibility of having their leases ended as part of DOGE's recommended money-saving efforts.

A listing on the DOGE website assesses the annual lease cost for the NOAA office in Hilo as $164,391 and that canceling the lease would have a total savings of $150,692.

Reuters noted that DOGE didn't reply to an email request for comment, and NOAA staff declined to comment publicly after their communications office did not respond to an emailed request for comment as well. However, there was still widespread disappointment regarding the impact that closing the office would have on the ability to evaluate the effects of polluting gases on the climate crisis.

"It would be terrible if this office was closed," atmospheric scientist Marc Alessi, a fellow with the Union of Concerned Scientists advocacy group, told Reuters. "Not only does it provide the measurement of CO2 that we so desperately need to track climate change, but it also informs climate model simulations."

 

[Fuzzy1975]

There are very few "farmers" any more. The majority of American farms are run by huge corporations that
lobbied for agriculture subsidies and other special favors. As those vanish, the market
will adjust.

If another nation can supply itself with agricultural products it formerly imported from America,
good for them. American farms can and should serve American consumers, not corporate profits.

Getting government out of the economy is the only path to prosperity.

So you want to buy back the corporation owned farms, fire the workers, and roll back to family owned sustenance farming/

 

[Fuzzy1975]

As long as the rats all die, I don't mind if they burn down the house. I can build another.

lol, it isn't as easy as you think. How about this as an analogy, after you've burnt the house, try rebuilding it without any lumber, steel or concrete....Straw you say????

I doubt you'll understand, but what the hell,it's early....

 

[ll74]

You are well named, fuzzy. Can you cut and paste a quote of my saying anything remotely like that?

Removing artificial subsidies and regulations from agriculture will return the market to normal.
Growing food to feed Americans instead of growing and exporting tobacco to give cancer to people in China.

The market to normal is not anywhere close. American farmers can't compete.

 

[coati]

TD;DR

 

[Fuzzy1975]

You are well named, fuzzy. Can you cut and paste a quote of my saying anything remotely like that?

Your whole post implies this.

Removing artificial subsidies and regulations from agriculture will return the market to normal.

No it won't, the farmers will then beholden to the banks, just like it was in 19th century.

Growing food to feed Americans instead of growing and exporting tobacco to give cancer to people in China.

Oh now the goal post moves start.

The return of AJ?

 

[ll74]

Your whole post implies this.

No it won't, the farmers will then beholden to the banks, just like it was in 19th century.

Oh now the goal post moves start.

The return of AJ?

Formatting and arguments are different.
Not AJ.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Formatting and arguments are different.
Not AJ.

Yes agreed. My mistake.