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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Good morning.
One of the UFO podcasts I was listening to referred to everyone who took secrecy oaths as “hostages”.
We are talking about millions of people with some form of classification.
It is a huge drag on scientific and many other endeavors—a gridlock of compartmentalization—almost impossible to unravel.
Imagine joining together with neighbors to build a house and only one person is allowed to see a hammer, one other person is allowed to see the nails, and only one other person is allowed to see the lumber—because we don’t want anybody from the town next door to learn the secret of building a house.
Imagine everyone having to wear blindfolds until they enter the room of the house they are working on—and having to wear blindfolds when they leave the house as well.
I believe that the federal government should only do things people. business, local and state governments can’t do themselves.
This function allocation is analogous to the Amendment X powers clause.
The federal government would let states handle most domestic governmental functions such as education and welfare. Just about everything in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance would vanish.
The federal government would send revenue sharing money to the states as available, 50% on a per capita basis, think low-income states like Mississippi, and 50% on a personal income tax basis, think high-cost states like Massachusetts.
The federal government would:
1. handle all prescription drug welfare including Medicare Part D, since the high costs come federal patents and FDA marketing restrictions,
2. retain old age Social Security, since many people retire out of state,
3. retain Part A & B of Medicare for persons 65 and over indefinitely, for the same reason, with states have their revenue sharing funds reduced by a cost-sharing percentage starting at 1% and rising at 1% a year to a maximum reduction of the highest state income tax rate percentage plus 20% to give states an incentive to reduce hospital and doctor costs,
4. pay 80% less the highest state income tax rate percentage for Medicaid nursing home costs.
“UNDERWORKED”
That is mainly the fault of management.
Underworked employee should be given a secondary duty of helping out overworked employees.
“There needs to be a complete removal of Democrats at all levels, not just the top.”
About 85% of civilian government employees are probably Democrats.
The percentage that are Republicans is probably under 10%.
“Department of Redundancy Department, Bureau of Repetition, Division of Multiplication”
You might be sincere and 101% truthful with your stance. The problem is, we could line up 100 deadwoods and they would all say the exact same thing. If you are open to a word of advice, start looking for work elsewhere.
The bolded part above, I doubt that. When your paycheck stops you will move on.
I think that is a very accurate and insightful statement.
In addition to the harm caused by compartmentalization and secrecy in science, the field has also been deeply compromised by politics.
Politicians and university endowment boards often fund only those scientists who align with pre-existing theories, demanding confirmation over discovery. This undermines the pursuit of truth, which should be the core mission of science.
The scientific method demands objectivity, yet when research is driven by the goal of proving a specific outcome, confirmation bias inevitably skews the results.
As Eric Weinstein aptly noted, "Science in America is dead. Politics has killed it."
Besides Trump and Musk, what other “Billionaire Boys” are akin to the Founding Fathers? I wish we had more!
Zuckerberg, Bezos, Cuban and that ilk are all Tories.
“This came out a year after JFK’s EO 10988 that allowed federal employees to engage in collective bargaining. To unionize.”
There should never be public unions. There should be no “make work” jobs in government. Government should go back to pre-1913 rules.
Yes.
Governs best/least is the ideal.
Rescind laws not write laws.
Stable currency, prevent invasion, domestic tranquility. Those are the three things government should stick to (according to the late great Paul Johnson). I would add, preserve, restore and replenish all natural resources of the nation, including adding peacefully new territories and (few) people whose ideals and will agree completely with eventually becoming American.
Use the ignored Ninth and Tenth Amendments to erase the rest.
Government bureaucracy is a cancer on freedom. Cut their budgets 15% every year until the bureaucracies cry. Those remaining who don’t do their job should be fired immediately. End government employee unions immediately. If the employees have a problem with that...fire them immediately.
While they “may be” government employees who do something productive, the great majority are slacking losers who couldn’t get a “real” job.
Governing a country is like driving a car - if you never move the steering wheel, you’ll run off the road.
“Government Efficiency”
This is a classic issue with ANY government job because there is very little incentive to be effective at their job after a certain point. This is because the employees are almost impossible to fire. Therefore, IF there is no room for advancement there is no reason to do any more than the least accepted. The bare minimum.
For example, the Tuesday after Labor Day (six days ago) a major traffic light on my daily commute into Nashua, NH was screwed up. It only was staying green for 21 seconds(I counted). Traffic was backing up over a mile in the eastbound direction. After two days I called the Nashua police who said I need to call the department of public works.
I called and spoke to a nice lady who stated she had received several calls other then mine and had referred it to the streets department. Another two business days have gone by. Nothing has changed. I called again this morning. Spoke to another nice lady who acted like this was the first she had heard about it. She again stated she would refer the issue to the streets department.
Musk, RFK JR, Gabbard, and Trump are all recent Democrat's, but I seriously doubt they are "Conservatives", especially when it comes to traditional Republican rank and file priorities such as protecting the unborn, literally enforcing the Second Amendment, and restoring Federalisim.
In any bureaucracy there are a small percentage (perhaps 5%) who actually know how to get things done.
The hard part is figuring out who they are.
They usually are not the person who is technically in charge of any department because of DEI. In addition competent people often choose not to become managers since managers have to deal with idiot employees.
Once you find the person who could actually do something then you have to motivate them to want to do something about it.
Hilarious note: the other 95% truly believe the task under discussion is “impossible to fix”. Since they believe that there is no point in them actually trying to do anything about it.
Isn't Kushner a billionaire boy.
Perhaps Don Jr. or Eric is in that club.
There's Buffet, too.
Isn't Kushner a billionaire boy.
Perhaps Don Jr. or Eric is in that club.
There's Buffet, too.
My younger brother worked in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for his entire career. He is now retired at age 57. One of the main reasons he told me for his retirement at 56 was that there was no potential for advancement at the prison he worked.
The assistant warden(his immediate boss) was incompetent. She was also a Black woman and was not going anywhere. His only choice would have been to take another Assistant Warden job at another prison. Meaning move him and his family away from their home of 30+ years. So, he retired. He had been working there since he was 22.
Better branding would be Green Government, Carbon Emission Reduction, or Carbon Footprint Commission. The U.S. Government has the largest carbon footprint of any organization on Earth.
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