Am in favor of cutting costs in government. How could one not be?=
indeed, everyone is or should be in favor of cost-cutting... but it depends on you definition of cost-cutting.
trimming the fat? great!
destroying a useful organization so that you can unilaterally impose your strict vision of how society should be organized? yeah not so much.
doing a cost-benefit analysis to determine what is and isn't needed? great!
removing anything that doesn't conform to your conspiracy theories or false sense of victimization? again, not so much.
etc.
it seriously worries me that elmo may be in charge of "government efficiency". he made twitter "more efficient" and it's been a disaster. a common approach to software development is "innovate fast, break things, learn from the mistakes." (this is what he was referring to when he said that it will be rough in the short-term, i.e. until they figure out what does and doesn't work). if the only impact of this approach is the inability to like a tweet, who cares. but people are going to suffer if the headlong pursuit of "efficiency" results in VA health benefits being delayed, or food stamps not being distributed, or drugs being incorrectly approved, meat not being inspected, student loan applications not being approved, etc. if you think government is inefficient now, just wait until they are critically understaffed...
