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>You're confusing transparency with efficiency

They go hand in hand. Or is it fine that the government is openly lying about how it claims to want to be "America First"?

>that doesn't mean they're inefficient for their intended purpose.

And that's what I ask. What is the intended purpose? I fail to explain it, and even with my most cynical interpretations I don't see how this is an efficient route.

Transparency would help a lot in evaluating if they aren't being wasteful. But as is, it seems to be a bunch of special interests all clashing with one another in the White House. They don't make sense because there's no unified plan.

Which meets the above definition of "waste"



You're saying that just because you don't know the purpose, there must be no useful purpose.

> even with my most cynical interpretations

Of course if you're thinking cynically, you won't come up with anything good.

Anyway, the definition is stupid, it says "or become dissipated" which is probably meant to refer to waste energy from a machine but without that context you could consider social welfare spending to be dissipation of money, so the most efficient way for the government to spend would be on huge concentrated projects.




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