The amount saved was actually negative, because the contract would have brought in more than $8M in value.
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Yeah, you also have to be careful of how you view "saving" in a government context. Your not trying to horde wealth like a ceo. Not supporting contracts and businesses can many times mean unemployment for staff, which starts to negatively affect your economy overall and affect spending leading to less taxes and less money going back to the government. While also increasing either social aid to support them or police presence for people going through hard times.
Long term investments are kryptonite for modern vulture captialists that want profit now
And by vulture venture capitalists you mean nearly every publicly traded company, which is almost every company you've ever heard of. It's why you have to constantly be on the defensive even when buying a pack of gum. Is it full of poison? Too much sugar? Do they use slave labor to produce the product? Are they funding genocide in central America? Why is the price 3x last year?
By welding insatiable, unregulated capitalism as the sole way of operating our economy, we guarantee that quality and human-positive outcomes are eaten up, taken over, destroyed, monetized, privatized or enshittified.
I just want to buy a pack of gum in a reasonable world that doesn't need to support CEO levels of wealth and all the horrific downstream practices and cost cutting that comes with it
Yes but fucking simpletons can't think more than one step ahead, when the government in our country announced that all covid vaccines would be free, everyone was up in arms about how that money could go to schools and shit. Keep in mind this happened after they came out with an estimation that each covid patient in the hospital costs between 3500-5000 euros.
So there was literally direct savings by having free covid vaccines and the dumb fucks still didn't understand.
So you say, psychopath billionaire is lying?
Maybe he's even just a psychopath millionaire
The most likely outcome with all the doge meddling is purchasing power of the population going down, so subsidies and grants and given out as candy to friends and family to keep businesses and the economy going costing the government more in the end.
Regardless of the amount, that's all going back to the people, right? And since we're saving so much money we should have lower taxes, right? Lemme know when y'all get your check in the mail because I'm still broke as fuck.
Lol no. The plan is to lower taxes for billionaires and make the rest of us pay.
Too bad the maga mouth breathers can’t read
That's a rather round 8 ~~bil~~million