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>>All organizations are inefficient. My company would send people across the world in business class for a few meetings they could do remotely without problem.

The difference is that businesses that are inefficient are wasting revenue, and eventually go bust. There is no self-correcting mechanism for government.

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There technically is because the interest on the deficit alone is about to exceed total defense spending, over time we will eventually just become a debt slave society paying to other economies.

But practically the self correcting mechanism is democracy, our elected officials have been failing us. Like it or hate it, DOGE has gotten farther in 1 month than everyone else conbined incl 5 other agencies over the last 20 years. The reaction from the bureaucracy and political machine should tell you everything you need to know about our prospects in the absence of DOGE.

> over time we will eventually just become a debt slave society paying to other economies.

This is categorically false. 70% of our debt is held by US entities.

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