For many Federal agencies and many in the Federal workforce, the arrogant attitude is that we work for them at their pleasure. It is time for large swaths of the Federal government to be defunded and abolished.
A friend who was anti-Biden sent me this Email yesterday [cleaned up and anonymized]:
Sadly, Trump has destroyed the Republican Party. He is using a wrecking ball system, and it will not work. DC and Baltimore are in crisis, and too many veteran programs and low-income support positions are being zapped. At HUD, they are firing over 50 percent this week. Crime and civil disobedience is going to go through the roof. Already in DC and Baltimore, the Tesla dealerships are being attacked with paint balloons and spray paint.
As many predicted, the leftist press and demonic Democrats are loudly presenting the stories of woe from Federal workers. They cherry-pick a handful of sad cases that they claim to represent the majority of those “unfortunate” swamp creatures in our bloated and corrupt Federal bureaucracies that the orange bad man victimizes.
Trump is doing the right thing. A wrecking ball is what is needed. The Federal government is bloated, inefficient, and corrupt. It has needed an external audit and a chainsaw for decades. The corrupt federal government has long feared that government shutdowns over budgets would expose that we don’t need 90% of the government we are forced to fund.
There will be some chaos for a little while. DC and Baltimore are crowded with government workers. I have lived in these areas in the past. The closer you are to the global epicenter of stupid (DC), where most people make their living by consuming the tax dollars of hard-working Americans, the more likely you are to believe that the government is the source of solutions. It is the source of most of our problems. I have lived near the swamp for many years. Many (most?) Federal swamp creatures believe they are more intelligent and better than most citizens, and they, the citizens, work for the Federal government rather than vice versa.
We will see a disproportionate amount of impact there. The loss of thousands of well-paying — but ultimately unnecessary and perhaps unconstitutional — positions will impact the economies and housing markets of DC. He is doing that. Everyone wanted Trump to reign in government corruption and bloat. He is the only politician I have ever known who is trying to live up to his campaign promises.
Just like any corporate downsizing, there will be casualties. Every industry goes through this from time to time. In the real world, external audits are standard and, in many cases, legally mandated. All industries go through downsizing from time to time. It is time for the Vogons in our corrupt and bloated Federal bureaucracy to do the same. None of the politicians cared when thousands were fired as Biden destroyed a lot of American industries. Remember Biden telling 15,000 oil workers, “Too bad. Learn to write software.” I say the same for all the affected federal workers. Take your useless and frivolous degrees, your holier-than-thou attitudes, your arrogance, and your condescension for the Americans who have to work for a living and figure out how to live in the real world. “Too bad. Learn to be productive contributors, not consumers or resources.” Stop wasting my tax dollars. Like everyone in the real world, HUD must determine what is essential and jettison the rest.
No one is entitled to a government job! The Federal government is supposed to work FOR us. We are not supposed to work FOR them. They work at the pleasure of the American people. DOGE and the administration have paraded examples of billions of dollars of fraud, waste, and abuse. Many Federal workers have demonstrated that they have their own agenda. They undermine and obstruct the duly elected President and his appointed cabinet and advisors. They must be fired if they do not support the administration and the people’s will.
Taxpayers overwhelmingly agree that downsizing the Federal bureaucracy and out-of-control Federal agencies must occur. We voted for that. It is laughable that leftists and politicians are angry at the auditors for pointing out the fraud, waste, and abuse, not those who have committed the fraud, waste, and abuse.
When downsizing happens in the real world, management must determine what is essential, resource those functions, and jettison the rest. Lots of Federal functions are unconstitutional, corrupt, and unnecessary. Most federal programs violate the 10th Amendment and should be unfunded at the Federal level and pushed to the states. I know this impacts many personally, but I don’t see where the 10th Amendment even permits HUD, HHS, FEMA, or ED to exist. These are issues for the Sovereign States, not the federal government. That may be painful, but that’s what the Constitution says. In previous articles, I have opined that at least 75% of the Federal government should be eliminated, with those functions and tax dollars returned to the States.
My friend brought up an example of a national park ranger who was let go and had to move to another position in another state, where she lost seniority. It is sad to see park rangers go. I enjoy our National Parks, and my wife and I are more than halfway to our goal of visiting all 63 (soon to be 64). Like every federal agency, the Park Service and the Department of the Interior are bloated and must redistribute rangers to meet administration budget goals.
If eliminating the corruption and downsizing of the Federal government doesn’t happen in the next four years, it will likely never happen.
This is the familiar whine. Everyone wants to eliminate fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption, but not my fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption or the fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption I like.
I have been working around the DoD since 1981 in various capacities. They, too, need a 25% cut in funding. They can absorb that much with NO IMPACT on readiness merely by cutting fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption. Several of the folks in the government I worked with until I retired last week are now gone. They were good people, but the organization was about twice the size it needed to be. Federal bureaucracy bloat has added layers and layers of people who can say “no” while decreasing the ability to say “yes.” I have often joked about things operating at the “speed of government,” where we could get something done in days in industry that take the government months or years. Government agencies must learn to focus only on what is essential, jettison the rest, streamline, and become more efficient. (I know using the words efficient and government in the same sentence is heresy!) That is the real world, outside the corrupt DC bubble, where government workers encroach on our freedoms because they know better how to run our lives and we peons.
My friend conceded many of these points when faced with my counterargument but further opined, “I wish [he cut the size of government] with more respect to workers.” (Like the respect Biden had for those workers in the energy sector or those who lost their jobs due to his fascist COVID policies?) Be careful how much you blame Trump. Be wary of what Secretary Hegseth rightfully called “malicious compliance.” I think agency managers who are Deep State operatives are trying to implement his guidance in the most awful ways possible to discredit the goals and policies of the President. Trump didn’t fire most of these folks directly. Trump told agencies to fire people, cut costs, and cut waste.
He further went on to predict that “the loss of federal funding for social programs in the big cities will cause mass riots. Already, all the Tesla cars at [a Baltimore area] dealership were wrecked… I am more worried about the inner cities as that is where I work, and the crime I think will go nuts.
I don’t have a lot of sympathy for the urban social programs. We have been feeding and housing people who CAN work but WON’T for too long. Our social programs promote fathers abandoning their kids and the destruction of the traditional nuclear family. While we each have a personal responsibility to help those less fortunate, that does not convey to the government. Please explain how the federal government has the right to redistribute wealth. The 10th Amendment tells me they don’t. It was illegal when FDR started doing it. It hasn’t become legal because the federal government has exercised unrestrained taxation and spending and the courts have tolerated this federal overreach and abuse. If the People’s Republic of Maryland wants to maintain those programs in Baltimore, they are free to do so. But it is NOT a federal issue requiring unconstitutional redistribution of wealth.
Local Tennessee news last night, in a largely conservative area of the country, emphasized how shrieking leftists are screaming at Republicans in town hall meetings across the country. They decry Trump spending $20M to attend the Super Bowl. (Frankly, I think that was a waste of money as well, but let’s put that aside for now.) They are trotting out Soros’ talking points about Musk not being elected (like most of the Federal swamp creaturs who unconstitutional intrude on our lives and forcibly extract tax dollars). They are screaming about how terrible it is that Trump is working to achieve his campaign promises of cutting the federal government. They complain more about auditors finding waste than about those who have been stealing money for years. They are screeching about the poor federal workers.
Here is where the Repugant Republicans show that they are without honor, integrity, or genitalia. The leftist press and the Soros-funded provocateurs will pound on the weak-minded and weak-willed politicians. Musk is not the “constitutional crisis,” the activist judges who think they can interfere with the separation of powers are the constitutional crisis. Yet, we are very likely to see the Republicans slowly defect. “Bloat and corruption are bad, but not MY bloat and corruption.” “Musk’s unelected auditors are bad, but the armies of poor, unfortunate, unelected federal swamp creatures who have become arrogant, overreaching, and overbearing are good.” “We have to be kind to the fired Federal workers and should entitle them to permanent employment regardless of the necessity or constitutionality of their work.” “The American people don’t have a right to know how their betters spend their tax dollars.” “We weren’t serious about supporting Trump’s goals of reducing size, fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption. We were lying to get elected.”
Fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption are not limited to the Demonic Democrats; the Repugnant Republicans also created them. Eliminating these cancers should be a bipartisan issue.
Suppose the Repugnant Republicans wanted to do the right thing for the American people. In that case, they should be racing “micro-budget bills” through Congress daily to enshrine the cuts recommended by DOGE and enacted by executive order. Officially defund these boondoggles in law. Defund whole federal agencies and departments as an act of Congress based on the recommendations of DOGE and the President. Doing so would cut the knees out from under the Demonic Democrats and eliminate arguments over “authority.” It would be a party-line vote but do it anyway. However, the Republicans must be serious about cutting fraud waste and abuse. So far, only Trump, his cabinet, and the “DOGE boys” seem to be serious about cutting waste.
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