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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Everybody expects a paycheck. As a nuclear physicist, I could be making three times my salary now, but the work I do is important, and more interesting than academia. So no...I don’t expect more in return. My work is pretty specialized...so to “start looking for work elsewhere” is a non-starter. I’d rather stay where I’m valued, which you won’t get in the corporate world.
“When your paycheck stops you will move on”. I’ve got news for you, when my paycheck stops (unless it’s retirement), everyone’s paycheck in the US stops, because half the globe will become a total wasteland and everyone will be in survival mode. I’m honetstly not too worried about my paychack at that point.
Your check won’t stop.
It will be reduced.
The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate needs your money to buy votes and propaganda and protection.
Interesting that William Henry Chamberlin, the author of that piece, was a communist who became an anti-communist.
You’re right - and Musk cut them down to size...
When I last worked, I sure never felt any entitlement. Also the job had deteriorated to the point where it didn’t offer a livable paycheck any more. Previous to that it was a fairly likeable job, & the pay, while not great, at least offered a chance of being livable & maybe could even better that slightly. Then along came a new set of bosses & ruined the whole thing. Not too long after that, retirement was in the handwriting on the wall. Now in retirement, things have actually improved in spite of living on S.S.
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