Posted on 09/09/2024 4:19:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber
At the Economic Club of New York, President Trump announced: “I will create a Government Efficiency Commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government — and making recommendations for drastic reforms.” Elon Musk is eager to get involved with the project. In one fell swoop, every other reason for re-electing Donald Trump took a back seat to the tantalizing possibility of turning his second term into an Office Space sequel.
No government since the Byzantine Empire has been in more desperate need of immediate downsizing. Can you picture the billionaire boys putting on their “efficiency expert” hats and shearing the bloated federal workforce one incompetent functionary at a time? Commissioner Musk: “So what is it that you would say you do here?” Crickets. President Trump: “You’re fired. Bring in the next one.” If that’s all those two did for four straight years, round two of Trumpalooza would be a colossal success.
Most of the federal blob is dead weight. Its chief purpose is to hook so many families on a federal paycheck that tens of millions of Americans will never stop voting for its continuing expansion. Even worse, it’s a Janus-faced monstrosity with internally conflicting mission objectives. We’ve got departments dedicated to fomenting wars abroad and departments dedicated to stopping them. We’ve got agencies tasked with confiscating taxpayers’ income and agencies tasked with providing economic relief. Committees are organized to study “problems,” but those problems can’t be officially solved because doing so would mean that committee-members are out of jobs. That possibility becomes the only “problem” that needless federal workers decide to solve, and they “solve” it by doing absolutely nothing. The end result is that an unknowable number of ghost programs dedicated to issues that arose decades ago are still bouncing around
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It looks like the Biden regime is trying to enact rules to prevent Trump from downsizing the blob.
New office: The Department of Departments.
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance”
Grievance #10 - Declaration of Independence
Might the “Billionaire Boys” be the 21st Century equivalent of the Founding Fathers?
I have never seen a group of people that feel more entitled than government employees.
Agree
Twitter under Jack was a bloated woke bureaucracy worse than any government agency.
That doesn’t make much sense since Twitter never had the power to tax or agents with guns.
I would agree the federal workforce is bloated and needs to be pruned - starting with all the IRS new hires and the Dept of Education. I would not agree we “all” feel entitled. I feel grateful to be able to do my job and do it well. Even as a civilian for the DoD, I occasionally get put in harm’s way, and I expect nothing in return. Some things are more important than me, and it comes at a personal cost. What I don’t like is being tarred with the same brush as the deadwood.
Sadly, this article makes perfect sense. It’s sad because the article clearly states just how sad our government has become.
I believe the bloat started with Carter. I used to live in Arlington in the early 70’s and it was a nice place with little shopping centers, little parks and mostly single family dwellings. A person could go for quiet walks, meet friendly people and find it as enjoyable as with many small midwestern towns.
In the 90’s we went back and it was a madhouse full of new government buildings. It was a rat race. I can imagine with the Clinton era on forward it’s only worsened.
We were married in Fairfax. My recollection back then was the area our church was in was mostly wooded with very little population. That’s likely been filled with asphalt and concrete by now too.
Imagine, trimming the area down to a ghost town.
Deep State delenda est.
The DoD is one of the few federal organizations that is necessary.
That seems to be the case. But those rules can be changed, as with any other rule.
If Trump can get a firm grip this time on controlling the federal government and bringing it into alignment with the Constitution and making the federal government a tool for the citizen, then he will trim away.
The idea of Musk joining in along with RFK jr and Tulsi in essence makes this a bipartisan effort. After all, Trump was a NY democrat.
There needs to be a complete removal of Democrats at all levels, not just the top.
Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome
Note the year.
This came out a year after JFK's EO 10988 that allowed federal employees to engage in collective bargaining. To unionize.
What is the job you are doing?
But, for the DOD to be able to fulfill its duties, it must be purged of the DEI cancer.
When the government’s purpose is to serve the government and not the people, you have fascism. Democrats claim that limited government is fascism, and democracy is when the people’s freedoms are limited. Just like usual, they have everything ass backwards.
“ I have never seen a group of people that feel more entitled than government employees.”
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For sure. They have their own dedicated group of federal employees to determine whether they are appropriately compensated. Of course each year they “find” that federal employees are substantially underpaid compared with similar private sector jobs. Of course the reality is that large chunks of federal employees are actually UNDERWORKED AND OVERPAID,
It will eat and grow until it explodes unless someone stops it.
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