Waste Reduction, Have Cake, Eat It Too Dept. (Updated) 0
Politicians of all persuasions love to complain about government waste. It’s this great big shadowy thing that is always there, even if it’s not.
Except, of course, when it’s their waste. The Department of War Defense wants to eliminate what it considers to be a wasteful and redundant command headquartered in this part of the world.*
Oh noes.
It is noteworthy that many of these pols, especially on the state and local level, have willingly eliminated teachers, garbage collectors, police officers, and highway repair persons because they couldn’t figure out how to pay them.
It reveals how much of the caterwauling about government “waste and bureaucray” is just so much cant.
“Cut his waste,” they say’ “but don’t cut mine.”
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*I don’t have a position on this particular command, but I do believe the government spends far more than needed on ways of ending lives and far less than needed on ways of improving them.
Addendum, Later That Same Day:
Noz points out the inconsistency:
(snip)
but if that’s the case, how to they explain the bipartisan outcry whenever something like this (base closure–ed.) happens?
