And I don't wanna hear about a .0000X% of the budget carp. A waste is a waste.
I'm gonna double back on this one because I think it deserves another round.
"A waste is a waste" is really simplistic thinking here. Banning certain people from military service can
easily harm morale enough to cost more in actual dollars to counterbalance. You know that you're going to pay some recruiting penalty for this move, and that recruiting penalty costs money. The outstanding question (if you forget morality for a moment and just look at dollars), is whether you're going to get an offsetting bump in recruiting or morale that overwhelms the penalty. That might be the case, but it requires analysis. That effect could easily drown whatever signal it is that you're seeing from the $8M. If you don't do the analysis (which costs money) you don't know whether "saving" $8M is actually costing you more, or is actually saving you even more.
Doing that analysis costs money. This is true of the viagra thing too, you can't know for sure whether it's a waste - it's a perq for employees. You can cut it, but will you save money? Or will you end up shelling out even more money to compensate for the lost perq. Analysis is required.
This, again, is why you have to spend your time on big ticket items. It can be clearer going in that you can cut waste, and make the analysis and time spent considering it much more clearly worthwhile.
And who are you to say what is important of his time?
...someone who can do math?
As you said he only spent 40 seconds thinking about it
I didn't say he only spent 40 seconds thinking about it. I said if he spent more than that it was taking up more than its share of his year - and it probably took him over 40 seconds to tweet it (also not a good use of his time).
...(86,360 seconds left in his day minus sleep) The drips in the bucket add up. But you like to ignore that when I try to bring it up. $800k saved over 8 years is almost a billion over his term. Is it still a waste of his time? Let me guess, to you yes, to me, I see $800k less drops in our bucket of debt.
No. Because he could have saved more money by working on something else. You see $800k less drops, I see all of the drops that could have been prevented if someone had actually paid attention. If trump saves us $8M, but he could have saved us $100M.... we're worse off.
Speaking of wasted time, it is not worth my time to explain the concept of prioritizing your work to increase value. That is a concept that everyone should already be familiar with.
