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The White House Has a Plan for All That Foreign Food Aid That DOGE Cut: Burn It (gizmodo.com)

submitted 2 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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Is burning nearly a $1 million of food that you already bought a good example of "government efficiency"?

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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it be more efficient to simply burn millions of tax dollars rather that buying food and burning the food? They could just burn dump trucks full of money and save the cost of moving the food and the fuel to burn it.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

But how can they profit from corruption by burning money? You pay your cronies with tax dollars for their food, then you burn the food... because why feed people when you can be cruel? Tax dollars are for squandering.

It's like you don't even kleptocracy, bro.