Posted on 12/05/2024 10:18:16 AM PST by John Semmens
Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL) went on MSNBC's "Way Too Early" show to say "Trump's emphasis on making government more efficient is a heartless attack on people who depend on government generosity to live. America is a rich country. The surplus of wealth produced by those who are capable should be redistributed to those who have needs. This was the crux of former President Lyndon Johnson's idea of the 'Great Society.' Three generations of Americans have adapted to this process and cannot survive on their own. This includes both the folks receiving the handouts and the government employees who administer the transfer payments."
"Elon Musk's notion that his success in building cars, spaceships, and turning Twitter into a profitable company can be replicated in the public sector is just not realistic," Jackson contends. "If you recall, Musk fired 75% of the employees who worked for Twitter under the previous owners. Firing government employees is not so easy. That's why new employees are hired to do the work that current government employees can't or won't do. This has been the norm for decades. I can't imagine how Musk and Ramaswamy are going to undo this in one four-year sprint as Trump's hatchet men."
"Anyone who understands economics realizes that most humans prefer leisure to toil," Musk pointed out. "The idea that the link between performance and reward can be severed without consequence was the fatal error of LBJ's 'Great Society's' leap into a welfare state. Economic collapse and bankruptcy is the inevitable outcome. The key to the success of our efforts to improve government efficiency will be to reconnect the link between performance and reward. We will start by doing a work management analysis of the functions employees must be held accountable for accomplishing and the time and effort required to do the job. Employees who don't measure up will be discharged. Physical assets rendered redundant will be sold off."
In related news, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) proposes a $2 trillion list of what to cut that included:
Selling vacant government buildings.
Auditing the IRS and firing the hundreds of agents who owe back taxes.
Eliminating boondoggles like the Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations and COVID relief fraud.
Cutting subsidies to grossly inefficient rail passenger service.
Nonsense expenditures like $4.6 million of lobster tail and crab and $2.1 million for games and toys."
Ending "welfare checks" for politicians who run for president.
Canceling $1.6 trillion of unobligated spending.
Stop paying bonuses to contractors despite their poor work.
Don't fund "silly science" like shrimp running on treadmills.
End $213.3 million unemployment benefits for millionaires.
Discontinue $1.5 billion spent every year on public relations and propaganda.
Reduce Department of Defense (DoD) spending by $125 billion until it passes an audit.
Removing ineligible recipients from various federal benefit programs.
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Well his little diatribe pretty much lays out why a bunch of bullDOGEing action is called for. Thanks johnny, from ill-annoy.
The communists are gearing up for the battle...
Hopefully the GOP elite will not do their usual surrender monkey act...
So, hundreds of agents didn’t think they needed to pay their taxes because they work for the IRS? Talk about entitled. I hope they have to pay back taxes WITH INTEREST~!
Government generosity? Generosity is voluntary - we have no say in the either government giveaways or the taxation.
I have a problem with the DOGE. If government was efficient, it would not be government.
While Joni’s list is extensive I failed to observe any cuts in foreign aid which is in the billions. Much of that money goes to people who hate us so why would we gift them with taxpayer treasure?
Many decades ago, any federal employee that was way past due on taxes would get the ax...
The IRS probably has an off-the-books employee amnesty policy.
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