The govt is not a company. Companies seek their own expansion in pursuit of profit for a relatively small number of shareholders.
By winning a presidential election, someone becomes a public servant. They do not "acquire" the country.
DOGE's goal is not efficiency. Pretending it is doesn't help.
By winning a presidential election, someone becomes a public servant. They do not "acquire" the country.
DOGE's goal is not efficiency. Pretending it is doesn't help.
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Mark Cuban
Trump is doing what you do after you acquire a company. Crazy I know. But reality. The Dir of NIH should reach out to DOGE and offer to bring them in to remove inefficiencies.
There are always some and the Director know what they are.
DOGE gets a win. NIH gets back to work.
There are always some and the Director know what they are.
DOGE gets a win. NIH gets back to work.
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But it doesn't mean that Trump isn't trying to run it like one.
He is suggesting that the NIH let Elon Musk run a Mafia bust out on a crucial entity.
Can we trust Cuban on health delivery after this?
But I don't need to attribute bad faith to him
I can simply say he's off base and failing to help defend the survival of our democratic republic
It just makes it seem legitimate, rather than a simplistic naive appeal the the people who think eliminating "waste and fraud" will balance the federal budget.
Govt's purpose is to, well, establish justice, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty for its people and those who will come after.
But they’re going after NIH because they’re anti-science. Offering efficiency suggestions won’t counter that.
Given that Cubans comment here was specifically in response to someone asking what he thinks about cancer research being canceled, might his suggestion have the effect of unblocking cancer research in the immediate future?
Did he miss on that specific objective?
I understand (and agree) that this approach is a bad longterm strategy against a bad faith regime with malicious intent... But assuming this wasn't a longterm suggestion, where's the objection?
In fact, let's go ahead and say they are worse/dumber for the sake of argument. Sound good?
Now lets imagine we are both hard working cancer researchers who have been awarded NIH funding to pursue the fight against cancer.
But now, for the first time in history, a radical, authoritarian, anti-science, uber-capitalist, techno-fascist regime have gained complete control of the US federal government.
They’re anti-science not pro-efficiency
Appeasement doesn’t work. And pretending it’s a good faith efficiency effort just helps them sell it.
But I still don't understand what MAGA gets out of breaking public health.
I can *almost* see what MAGA gets out of undermining science, academia, & expertise (seems short-sighted, but, well, that's a human failing). But public health????
*No, really, they said that. They also called masks "slave muzzles"
But - apparently the US public also rebelled against wearing masks during the 1918 Flu Pandemic. I still don't understand. but it seems deep in the USAmerican psyche.
The US federal government cannot succeed by abusing bankruptcy laws or getting big government subsidies.
The problem is when Cuban assumes that doing this will make Musk/DOGE leave NIH alone. But it won't, because they're not really pursuing efficiency.
But Cuban's take is based on a short-term goal of getting NIH from being blocked to running again (and doing their valuable work).
So what would you say is a better alternative for that short term objective?
The thing is, I don't think Cuban disagrees with you either.
He's not saying NIH should assume good faith. He's saying they should maliciously comply in order keep serving the public *for now*