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Mary Ann Dimand's avatar

I think that, at the cognitive end, it is slightly worse than you represent.

I applaud your clear narration that for efficiency to mean anything useful it assesses aims, outputs and processes to achieve those goals, and the cost of inputs to produce the outputs/processes to achieve the ends. (In an ideal opportunity cost— the value produced through the best alternative use— would also be addressed.)

Unfortunately, so far as I can tell, Trump/Musk and MAGA are implicitly using and promoting a model in which all the government does is pass around— redistribute— funds, and passing those funds to employees or suppliers is waste.

I get no sense that this ridiculous paradigm is being noticed, so I am peculiarly glad to have read you here. Thank you!

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Maryellen Symons's avatar

"Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we ever had" --- Yes, a like a Republican in the 1950s-60s style. He was like the "red Tories" in Canada: for example, Joe Clark, former prime minister of Canada, and Bill Davis, a long-serving premier of Ontario.

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