Hwy. sign photo by Steve B Kennedy, FAIR USE.

A famous Stoic philosopher named Epictetus was a slave as a child but grew up to become tutor to Emperor Marcus Aurelius. One of his students wrote down E’s teachings, (available for free, here) many of which dwelt on the observation that desire and aversion are two sides of the same coin. (Not his words, but conceptually still with us today: “No matter how thin we slice the baloney, it still has two sides.”)  The so-called owner of the WhiteHouse Deli has his thumb on the scale, and is selling thin slices at top prices, which will cost America “bigly”. DOGE has demolished two centuries of carefully developed efficiency, saving nothing, but wasting huge amounts of global investment.