https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1h4bikk/bernie_sanders_agrees_with_elon_musk_on_slashing/?sort=new
Yeah, all those high paying civilian jobs will go away. That's smart
the fricking comments in the thread 
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"he will do blatantly obvious illegal thing". If you work as an advisor to the government that doesn't mean you can conspire to kill off competition and not have Justice Dept nootice
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They might as well say 'they both want to cut the budget but one wants to do it in bad faith'.
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When /r/politics posters want the government to cut spending on the military they expect the extra money to go towards gibs that benefit them like college loan forgiveness. This money will be used in bad faith so Redditors disapprove.
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what's funny
is recently the ecommunist published an article about the VA being too generous https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/11/28/american-veterans-now-receive-absurdly-generous-benefits
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They can be extremely generous if you get approved for benefits. The wonky part is how they decide who gets approved for all the benefits
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The last decade ought to have repeatedly demonstrated to you that nothing actually happens when the executive branch does "blatantly obvious illegal thing".
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Last decade? More like since existence
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Emphasis on blatant. They used to at least put effort into maintaining a facade. Now they can barely even half-butt pretend they are held accountable for anything.
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true but he won't be part of the executive branch
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Dems know a huge part of their power is permanent unelected bureaucrats who can't be fired. Something like 70-90% of money allocated to a lot of government programs are eaten up by salary of people who's only job is to hold the line.
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