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Re:Pentagon Declines to Answer If It Shot Down $12 Balloon w... by grandmczeb on Sunday February 19, 2023 @07:40PM (#34863550)
The assumption here is that there’s a symmetry between private parties wasting their own money and the government wasting the public’s.
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Re:Pentagon Declines to Answer If It Shot Down $12 Balloon w... by frankbreetz on Sunday February 19, 2023 @10:55PM (#34864758)
I think the assumption is that both private and government try to minimize waste as much as possible, and the government is just better at it.
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