[ExI] Trump suggests letting Iran 'take out' Los Angeles and San Diego

[Adrian Tymes]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 11:46 AM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> DOGE came along asking why we need all this bureaucracy to offer us
> suggestions and opinions.  We don't!  So why are we spending all this money
> on it?  We shouldn't!

And in many (most?) cases, it turned out there was a good reason - one
that usually wasn't immediately obvious.  (In many cases it was
immediately obvious, to anyone honestly trying to find the reason
rather than prejudging that it was bad just because it was government
expenditure.)  Generally, this revelation came after damage from the
lack of funding was incurred.  The screwworm problem is one of the
more infamous cases.