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Re:Americans will soon be able to renew passports online by throw0101a on Friday August 26, 2022 @04:58PM (#32612692)
See:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

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Re:Americans will soon be able to renew passports online by notch656a on Friday August 26, 2022 @05:22PM (#32612922)
The federal beast is being starved so badly that it's consuming 4x the fraction of non-wartime GDP that it was 100 years ago (oh yes, except the blip during participation in a WORLD WAR). It's the kind of starvation only obese America can understand.

https://ritholtz.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/outlays-GDP....

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