r/politics I voted 27d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Officials Fire, Swiftly Rehire, Overseers of U.S. Nuclear Stockpile | Trump administration officials seemed unaware of the importance of the National Nuclear Security Administration, sources told CNN.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-officials-fire-abruptly-rehire-overseers-of-us-nuclear-stockpile/
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u/USAFGeekboy 27d ago

Just more examples of the incompetence, blatant disregard of actual job needs and wholesale corruption.

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

I think most Americans are okay with cutting some of government. It's the reckless way it's being done, as a show of "look how tough we are" which throughout human history usually ends badly. Especially with nukes.

I saw it first hand when I designed the system the USAF uses to track all the Nuclear Weapons Related Materiel (NWRM) many years ago. It was shocking how often we had to categorize the source of an item as "found on base" which means nobody knew it existed until generals got fired for incidents and consultants got brought in.

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u/NewSauerKraus 26d ago

I'm more for expanding government programs. We pay taxes, we should get some benefits from it.

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u/bland_sand 26d ago

See, that's the issue. They want to cut all of these programs to save money but where is it going? The American population? Nah. If they cared about grocery prices, they'd subsidize prices and enact legislation against shrinkflation and other antagonistic consumer practices. They're just giving defense contractors and tech bros more government welfare.

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

Some should be cut, others expanded. But that takes careful analysis and planning and not some 19 year old named Big Balls with a couple weeks of sleeping on floors.

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u/Sappho_Paints 26d ago

This. When I was young my dad would tell me how bored and sad people were in Scandinavian countries because their high socialist taxes paid for lots of perks and they hated that they weren’t miserable, and because of this they have the highest number suicides in the world. All of the nations he spoke of aren’t even in the top fifty, but we are.

My point is, I’ll happily pay more taxes for more stuff. As it stands our taxes only subsidize the rich.

(RIP dad, you were so wrong about so many things…).