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move fast and break things, except now it's storm warnings, weather prediction and climate forecasting. What could go wrong?

In a country of ~340M and a budget of trillions, what does this really save? Having a few hundred scientists on staff seems worth it. Pretty obvious DOGE is just a propaganda campaign and won't accomplish any of its listed goals. It's just hurting the American people.

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Well I don't know. Despite all this chaos, the economy is doing better than ever (?), we have the best jobs (?) the best salaries (?), very beautiful salaries. Who knew that a Republican administration would be bad for most people, no one could have predicted it.

We are one month into the Trump admin. I expect the economy will not do so well after the tariffs hit next week and several hundred thousand government employees are laid off. Oh, and I expect we might see further problems when people aren’t getting social security checks.

They could save a lot more if they started firing all people who wear glasses.

Areas with dense populations will be financially incentivized to generate their own storm warnings, and we'll save money on sparsely populated areas, so probably rather than spending money equally on tornadoes and hurricanes, we'll see more money spent on hurricanes and less money spent on tornadoes.

So you are saying, all states need to fund weather research themselves. That way there will be hundreds of vehicles following tornadoes and many planes studying hurricanes.

Also each State will need to fund and launch weather satellites ?

Nothing like saving money, I guess you can buy and launch satellites cheaper by the dozen ?

Right, but what you are forgetting is, that in exchange for all the efficiency provided by a central government agency, millionaires with only 2 yachts will be able to leverage this private contract into enough money to buy a third yacht.

When the co-president is the CEO of a company that launches satellites, this sounds like a winning solution

Sparsely populated areas? You mean the areas where we grow all our food? Yeah, we don’t need solid weather reports for areas like that.

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