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The Deep State Is Past Its Shelf Life
American Thinker ^ | 8 Sep, 2023 | J.B. Shurk

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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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: corruptiom; deepstate; elonmusk; govtefficiency; musk; trump2024; trumpalooza
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1 posted on 09/09/2024 4:19:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

It looks like the Biden regime is trying to enact rules to prevent Trump from downsizing the blob.


2 posted on 09/09/2024 4:19:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

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


3 posted on 09/09/2024 4:27:27 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber
Can you picture the billionaire boys putting on their “efficiency expert” hats and shearing the bloated federal workforce one incompetent functionary at a time?

Might the “Billionaire Boys” be the 21st Century equivalent of the Founding Fathers?

4 posted on 09/09/2024 4:28:06 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: PGalt

I have never seen a group of people that feel more entitled than government employees.


5 posted on 09/09/2024 4:31:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Agree


6 posted on 09/09/2024 4:33:00 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: HIDEK6

Twitter under Jack was a bloated woke bureaucracy worse than any government agency.


7 posted on 09/09/2024 4:36:32 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

That doesn’t make much sense since Twitter never had the power to tax or agents with guns.


8 posted on 09/09/2024 4:44:22 AM PDT by webheart
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To: MtnClimber

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.


9 posted on 09/09/2024 4:49:32 AM PDT by USAF1985 (Joe McCarthy is a hero...he was absolutely, 100% correct! (Let’s go Brandon!))
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To: MtnClimber

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.


10 posted on 09/09/2024 4:51:16 AM PDT by redfreedom (May God save us from what the Democrats do in the name of good.)
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To: MtnClimber

Deep State delenda est.


11 posted on 09/09/2024 4:54:08 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!The fans )
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To: USAF1985

The DoD is one of the few federal organizations that is necessary.


12 posted on 09/09/2024 4:54:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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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.


13 posted on 09/09/2024 4:56:08 AM PDT by redfreedom (May God save us from what the Democrats do in the name of good.)
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To: MtnClimber

There needs to be a complete removal of Democrats at all levels, not just the top.


14 posted on 09/09/2024 4:56:59 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: redfreedom
From 1963...

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.

15 posted on 09/09/2024 4:57:47 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!The fans )
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To: USAF1985

What is the job you are doing?


16 posted on 09/09/2024 4:59:36 AM PDT by yldstrk
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To: MtnClimber

But, for the DOD to be able to fulfill its duties, it must be purged of the DEI cancer.


17 posted on 09/09/2024 5:06:22 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Thinking is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people avoid it.)
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To: MtnClimber

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.


18 posted on 09/09/2024 5:06:52 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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“ 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,


19 posted on 09/09/2024 5:08:48 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: MtnClimber
The government is like a bunch of kids in front of a table of warm Krispie Kreme donuts.

It will eat and grow until it explodes unless someone stops it.

20 posted on 09/09/2024 5:09:37 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Thinking is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people avoid it.)
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