Shut it down.
It can stay shut down for all I care.
“Shut it down.
It can stay shut down for all I care.”
Hear hear.
The entire government should shut down for 60 days each year - just to demonstrate how non-essential it all is, and to kill off the parasites.
Then, with that lesson fresh in everyone’s mind, start it back up, but about one twentieth the size - the size and scope envisioned by the founding fathers and according to the limited functions of government enumerated in the constitution.
And I mean shut down EVERYTHING for 60 days. Trump and his family can sit there in the White House with SS and do nothing (I’m sure he’d be willing to pick up the tab). Do no “governing” at all, pay no one, fix no potholes, collect no taxes, - even the military. For those sixty days, we’ll activate volunteer militia - just gun owners from PA alone would do it, but with the other red states, there would be no lapse in national security at all.
The alphabet departments would be allowed to die out completely each year, with all bureaucrats, lifers and deep state parasites gone for good. Start from scratch each year with a zero based budget - departments like Education, Environnental Protection, Energy - would never be started back up because the 60 days without them screwing everything up would be such a success.
Bureaucrats and deep staters will cry bloody murder and argue that throwing away all that experience and training each year would send us back to the Stone Age in skill and technology. Starting from scratch each year would be the ultimate loss of efficiency, they’ll say.
It’s a lie. The exact opposite would be the case: The economic efficiencies gained by killing off the bureaucracies, regulators, lifers and deep state parasites each year would be immeasurable.
I’ve always wanted a shutdown.