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PaperclipPerfector  3mo ago (text post)   2616 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 31, 2025

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So... what's the Elon deficit reduction strategy here? Get like 5-10% of the government to resign, maybe fire another 5-10%, then go to congress and say look we can spend 10-20% less on salaries, go ahead and pass a reduced budget through reconciliation?

This actually sounds not too crazy.

Hopefully losing 10-20% of the work force doesn't cause a corresponding 10-20% reduction in government revenues but... it's kind of hard to see how it would.

EDIT: maybe something's wrong with me but I consider this topic fun and not weighty which is why I posted it here in the Friday thread. Seems like it has created a more typical CW thread discussion. My bad.

How has your country devolved into this? You are letting an unelected bilionaire do whatever he wants? And you are ok with that? 'It sounds not too crazy' no it actually sounds absolutely nuts to anyone with a functioning brain. Even if the federal system is that bloated you think musk , with no specialized knowledge, and a bunch of his yes men will fix it without fucking up your country?

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He's an executive branch appointee acting with the permission of the elected President. That's how the executive branch has always worked: The President appoints people to oversee various aspects of the executive branch, because it does way too much for one person to micromanage. The President can fire him at any time if he disapproves.

If there's a problem here, it's that the executive branch is doing things the executive branch has no authority to do, not that an unelected appointee is making decisions.

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