Politically-motivated austerity measures cannot be trusted since the times of Thatcher. It is always about enriching the ruling political party at the cost of the people under the illusion of downsizing the bureaucratic apparatus and its costs. The savings are meager and the citizens are usually saddled with paying the costs of the now-privatized services. It does not get more blatant than outright selling government property.
Public transport is usually the first victim of privatization and it becomes quickly noticeable to the average citizen. What I meant however are the less obvious signs of privatization such as the sale of municipal properties which are often repurchased at higher prices by the next administration. Privatization usually only benefits the ruling party at the immediate cost of the citizen and the next administration on the long term. If Musk is seriously selling off real estate owned by the GSA which is estimated at 360 million square feet nationwide, the costs of repurchasing it in 4 or 8 years will be exorbitant and the average citizen will again be saddled with paying for it. That's without accounting for the costs of leasing the properties in the meantime. Governments should not sell off real estate unless its maintenance costs outweigh its increase in value.
99.995% of federal employees aren't going to do that push-pins-and-red-string level of analysis.
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That number is effectively 100%, unless you want to count anything under 100 people.
yes, as it turns out 99.995% of federal employees are useless and are basically being given high salary charity jobs being paid for by taxpayers. they seem confused as to why they're losing their jobs because they're doing the good work™ that's on the right side of history™. they're useful idiots and don't have a clue
The funnier bit about Thatcherite policies in particular is that currently the UK under their own PSNFL calculations has a negative net worth, there is no public asset of value held by the government anymore, only liabilities.
Everyday people vastly overestimate how much their everyday experiences help them analyze new information.
appeal to authority lost most of its relevancy when the “experts” tried to tell you ivermectin was a dangerous drug, or that men can become women, or that there were firey yet peaceful protests
i don’t think an American would ever say the word bollocks
Spells like a Yank, types like a Yank, and struggles with British class and rank like a Yank.
I didn't even read that.