Comment by xnx

2 days ago

Good timing

"At least 10 sites have suspended or limited weather balloon launches because of the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Weather Service."

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xnx

Their agenda is to intentionally make government dysfunctional as a catalyst to privatize everything. It's working.

mlinhares 2 days ago
Problem is there is no money in this for the private market, so the government will have to pay 10x more to get a patchwork of private entities to do the work the government was already doing.
If we don't get these people out and revert all they did there won't be much of a future for this country that isn't becoming another failed economy with a few places being a little bit better than the others. The US will be a third world country soon.
- fastball 2 days ago
  
  Yes, the US Federal Government, famous for doing things efficiently and cheaply when no private contractors are involved.
  
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guywithahat 17 hours ago

I feel like there's important context here, such as this company was founded before Trump entered office, and the government weather balloons were so inefficient that a private company thought they could compete with free data.
Government weather data is exactly the kind of thing that should be private.
jmcgough 2 days ago

Next up is the postal service.