The confusion is a cover for the corruption.
Overwhelming the system.
A derivation of Cloward-Piven.
Maybe Gordian Knot is an apt descriptor…
We still need to do away with baseline budgeting...
This is part of the reason that for years the budget was based on continuing resolutions, or on the prior year’s budget plus some inflation percentage.
No one wanted to really look, except for political jabs at the other party’s boondoggles.
I once worked at a very large oil and gas company. For a time I did a stint in business development where I learned a lot of the ins and outs of book keeping and finance. All of the legal book keeping techniques led me one day to remark to our controller that we would be broke two years before we or anyone else found out. The government is the same or worse.
The root of almost all of our budget and growth problems is the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. I have not yet heard Musk or anyone else say that or call for it to be ended. Within that act are all the insane provisions of budget management and automatic spending increases of about 7% or more per year.
Thank you for this post