Good catch on the deep cut! I was thinking of The Battle of Central Park when I wrote that. Amazing a man who single-handily reshaped New York City's biggest failure was building a simple parking lot.
My question to this, is does it matter? This all seems like a drop in a bucket. Sure, 10K on a "furnishing expert" may be a waste, but 10K is like me spending a fraction of a penny on something. Same with a $40,000/yr federal worker. Seems like there are bigger fish to fry.
Yes and no. From a deficit perspective, even hundreds of millions don't matter. At all. But there is something to be said of the symbolic value of cutting wasteful spending. Sending the message that money must be well-spent is important, even if it isn't going to fix the deficit. Of course, DOGE doesn't appear to even be doing that.
I believe the occasional spikes are due to census workers, here's hoping DOGE won't be around to target them in 5 years.
I don't know if this historic reference was intended, but Robert Moses did try to build a parking lot in Central Park. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/07/18/86649826.html?pageNumber=1
The spikes are definitely the census. Thanks.
Good catch on the deep cut! I was thinking of The Battle of Central Park when I wrote that. Amazing a man who single-handily reshaped New York City's biggest failure was building a simple parking lot.
My question to this, is does it matter? This all seems like a drop in a bucket. Sure, 10K on a "furnishing expert" may be a waste, but 10K is like me spending a fraction of a penny on something. Same with a $40,000/yr federal worker. Seems like there are bigger fish to fry.
Yes and no. From a deficit perspective, even hundreds of millions don't matter. At all. But there is something to be said of the symbolic value of cutting wasteful spending. Sending the message that money must be well-spent is important, even if it isn't going to fix the deficit. Of course, DOGE doesn't appear to even be doing that.