- Eliminating a famous program that cost just $32 million but delivers an estimated $40 billion in annual savings on utility bills just as our nation faces increasing costs & soaring demands has to be one of the dumbest public policy choices on a very competitive list. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...
May 14, 2025 01:15
- Yes, but you see the wrong people are saving money.
- “dumbest public policy choices _yet_” When evaluating the current regime’s decisions over the next 3.5 years, the word “yet” will get used frequently.
- Next they will band LED lights.
- One populations $40 billion of annual savings is some poor corporation’s $40 billion of lost revenue. To DOGE we were “wasting” $32M to hurt shareholders.
- What is the rationale for this fucking asinine decision?