this is exactly the right answer imo. it's going to hurt like hell for things to get broken, so bad that we wouldn't ever choose it, but once they're broken you get to build free of all the crud of path dependency and that's an opportunity.
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Dave Weigel
Talked to Tim Walz as he campaigned in Wisconsin. Thought his answer to one Q I'd had for Dems - if you come back in 2028, do you rebuild everything DOGE broke? - was interesting.
"I think it's an opportunity."
www.semafor.com/article/03/1...
"I think it's an opportunity."
www.semafor.com/article/03/1...
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And then there’s “reorg (CRO owned partnerships for weird historical reasons)”
The latter can be good!
But we have to find some common agreement via a broad coalition first.
That would be nice
May differ here because the crisis is manmade.
Interesting idea.
But since it has been done, we might as well do things right this time. Half of the screwy things in gov came out of old compromises needed to get it passed to start with. (Prob GOP asks lol)
I also don't want them talking about "blowing agency A or department B apart"...we're not THAT party
Do it thoughtfully, figure it out (which doesn't mean do it super-slowly)...but we are not DOGE-lite 👎
It is that far too many Dems are standing to the side while another party disassembles the equivalent of a city sized massive factory complex and sells its parts for scrap.
Oh, and them thinking no one sees them standing to the side, also a problem.
It may take ages of trust building depending on how far down the factory gets razed, just to lay the foundation to put up someone's new idea.
(Technical debt is just a specific category of the latter.)
I don't think a post-DOGE world is going to be keen on that. Serious data protection is going to have to be built. /1
Option 1: Feed everyone, every district. Preferred solution IMO.
Option 2 (status quo): Community Eligibility through Direct Certification. Basically, take your kid's info, check SNAP and Medicaid and some other databases /2
But data sharing rules and privacy restrictions need to count. /3
But we have to think through our systems to avoid running into this problem in the first place. /fin
Also the bigger issue is that it’s hard to run a country when half the people want to burn it down.
What could have been, but egg prices.
Obviously a lot of government departments aren't running as fiscally and efficient as possible.
Rebuilding not obliteration is the solution .