Goverment expenditure.

what's the difference between profit-taking of private companies for government companies, and naked corruption?
that's not a joke, somebody please explain this to me.

- It would be nice if that were true, but unfortunately the debris falls over populated Caribbean islands to the east.

They made it so SSA takes 100% of your check for overpayment instead of just 10% to cover overpayments to "Get the money back quicker and punish overpayments" (Even though overpayment is usually an error made by SSA, not the recipient)
It was 10% because leaving the applicant with enough money to survive is not only not cruel, it lowers the chances that the person will appeal and get one of those altruistic Pro-Bono Disability Lawyers involved (Many of whom are inspired to do so by being disabled and mistreated by the system themselves.. met a few, all wonderful people)
They will now be FLOODED in appeals, so many that many will likely be approved without examination due to lacking the resources to review them all and not wanting to get a disability lawyer involved to drain more time and energy from understaffed overworked offices
What he's done isn't just cruel, it's stupid and will have the opposite of the intended effect
- and will have the opposite of the intended effect
  Pretty sure the intended effect is the eventual collapse of the USA, so this is one little helpful piece amount many
- You assume a non-complicit legal system.
  
  No I assume an overworked system that cares more about lightening its workload than kissing Elon's ring

“wasted” tax payer money means something different to musk, than normal people.
its a “waste” if its not lining his pockets

Man, I'd sure hate to be in those two stranded astronauts' shoes!
- Because they would have had to take the risk and come back in their leaky original vessel that made it home successfully?
  
  Not sure if I prefer a leaky vessel or to depend on the whims of an orange turd and an insufferable man child. Maybe the leaky ship would've been safer.

Was this under a gov contract? I thought it's commercial
- SpaceX has been awarded 2.89 billion to develop starship into HLS. They have zero deliverables even though the first orbital flight was supposed to be 2021, cryogenic in orbit refueling in 2022.. They're supposed to be landing on the moon this year. They're not even trying.
- Starship's development (and all of SpaceX, really) is being funded at least in part by government subsidies. They're building it for NASA as their next manned vehicle platform.
- nope, never. they might also have some small commercial contracts, but none of it works without government subsidies.

not wasted, invested in genocide and Trump Gaza!

Ok look I'm all against the BS they're pulling but lets not forget the fact SpaceX has made anything space related significantly cheaper than NASA ever could in the same timeframe. The money lost on these experiments is peanuts compared to what they've saved already AND are needed to progress towards our space-age. I really hope with France putting more money towards competing with SpaceX we'll have an EU alternative that can actually compete on price.
- This is how spaceX made launches cheaper:
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5cZEZoa8rW0
  By not following regulations and ruining a town that homes more than 100 000 people.
  
  To be fair, the person you're responding to is probably talking about the falcon 9 which was developed in California. Brownsville on the other hand is being ruined by a space program that makes no fucking sense and will likely fail in the end.
  
  The American way
- cheaper than nasa could
  no. they just got more funding and violated a bunch of environmental rules that NASA had to follow, because funding to efficient government programs is threadbare, and funding to military or subsidies of those deemed the beneficiaries of our society.
- SpaceX wouldn't exist without NASA. Not just because all of their tech is upon the foundational tech created by NASA, but because their employee knowledge base is formed from talent poached from NASA, directly stealing experience from the public space sector to hoard for their own profit.
  
  love your username.
  but yes, there is no wealth on this magnitude without pillaging the world others have built, tearing out the wiring, and selling it for scrap. they can only destroy. the creative urge is, as they say, also a destructive urge. more true for capitalists than most.
- Counterpoint: we don't need a space age (yet).
  
  Counterpoint: yes we do