Posted on 12/06/2024 7:39:18 AM PST by bill andersen
“As above, so below”
There are many more swamps to drain than the huge one in Washington DC. Every state, county and municipal government agency has one. These agencies are riddled with inefficient work processes and entrenched slackers. People interact with these bureaucracies far more often than the federal ones.
So why not apply DOGE principles to these bureaucracies? It is fitting and proper to do so.
For example every day normal Americans go to the DMV and Post Office and come away feeling like victims. Routinely there is a line at a post office with ten people in it being waited on by one employee. Yet you can hear several employees hiding in the back scurrying around and doing everything they can to avoid having to interact with customers. They get away with it because they face no disciplinary actions. They get their lavish pay, benefits and retirement regardless of how much (or little) they do in a day. And the DMV is even worse. The three-toed sloths that work there are known to be the slowest living organisms on the planet. Hell Disney has even made an animated movie about it called Zootopia. Even a rock on the ground moves faster than they do. And their utter contempt for providing even the minimum amount of customer service is apparent every time anyone has to deal with them.
The dmv folks and the post office are the ones we see most often. There are many more state, county and municipal bureaucrats that have fewer customer interactions and are more adept at doing little or nothing. Try getting a building permit for example. It is obvious they will get to you at their convenience and not a moment sooner. They look upon you with contempt for interrupting their day. Call them up and it always goes to voice mail. Leave a message and you might hear back from them two weeks later, if they call you back at all.
Identify and eliminate the inefficient, ineffective work processes. Make sure all employees are held accountable to high standards of customer care.
We are all Elons. We are all Viveks.
Yes!
4-minute Doge Men!
As a new State Senator (Arizona), I know everyone Is talking about this.
On a related note, from the latest employment report...
The devil, as usual, is in the details...
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
“...In November, government employment continued to trend up (+33,000), in line with the average monthly gain over the prior 12 months (+41,000). Over the month, employment continued to trend up in state government (+20,000)...”
Not a shocker, is it...
All Pensions from Transparent California, listing 390,707 web pages of "public servant" pensions, starting at a meager $9,687,592.68 per year.Public servants. Working the administrative state system at local, state and federal levels for decades.
Note the tagline. "Degrow government."
99% of gov agencies must be abolished at all levels.
Go back to 1900.
All we need is military and border control to keep illegals out
Been wanting this fir 20 years. Good to see Trump Elon Vivek shutting down the democrats/communists’ agencies
With the feds getting out of the taxpayer funding the states just may have to make it up and thereby raise their taxes. That’s why I favor school vouchers. Indoctrination will still appear but market forces will control it.
If the Federal DOGE turns out as expected you can expect the States to follow suit.
Somehow the Democrats will try to steal the credit as their own idea.
The bigger the government gets the smaller the people become.
IIRC, that 1099-k fiasco which says ebay etc etc sales over $600 have to be reported will produce 44 million returns.
Now people with businesses have to file over $600...anyways...put plenty of folks sell their "stuff" at a loss...and they still have to file and that's their only income and what they owe would always be zero.
Waste of everyone's time..and a lot of paper and disk space.
Alas for Californians, one finds the current state debt is more than $617,626,929,585, and climbing rapidly,
California Debt ClockEconomist Stein's observation that "what cannot conitnue will stop" means ever more to me than when I first read it.
If the Federal DOGE turns out as expected you can expect the States to follow suit.
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Hate to be the poop in the punch bowl, but I sincerely doubt that.
States with entrenched Democrat governments, such as California and Washington, will likely fight tooth and nail to keep that from happening.
The Dems may have lost some power in DC, but you know they’ll never give up state or local power unless they’re absolutely forced to, and the will of the people be damned.
Slash “Community/Government Access” TV and bring back Public Access TV...of the people, by the people for the people...
I worked in IT for the county. Several unqualified workers there including a female co-worker (same age as me) who made tremendous mistakes repeatedly and daily. For the record, I’m a sixty something female and retired a couple of years ago as I could see them easily going in the direction of mandating jabs. She’s still working there and got frighteningly got promoted.
States will have little choice. There are dozens of criteria that can be used to calculate recipients of Federal Money. You don’t have to plug the spigot of $$, just put a few crimps in the hose.
THE $600 threshold has been in place for YEARS-—
Form 1099.
I was self employed doing bookkeeping from 1980 to 2024-—and I filled out a large number of 1099’s. EVERY landlord got one. I GOT one from each client.
When residents/TAXPAYERS see the improvements at Federal LEVEL-—IT WILL FLOW DOWNHILL TO STATES.
For those people yes...I had a private business...and got and gave out 1099 during my 45 years in business. 1099-K includes a bigger base and not necessarily connected to a business.
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