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From my very beginning I witnessed up-close-and-personal the profound poison that is the US federal government. You could feel the corruption radiating outward from DC. It was like a leaking nuclear reactor
Trump’s quite right when he says it is not me they are after, it’s you—I’m just in the way. The updated version of this is it is not Trump they fear, it’s you—he just has the nukes.
It’s been half a century since John Gall published Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail, and guess what? Everything he predicted has come true—spectacularly.
More government? Costs the private sector more money. In compliance costs, etc. Which does more damage to small business than it does to Big Business. Because the smaller you are? The more debilitating is the time and money you are forced to waste complying with government.
The story is about an associate commissioner in the bowels of the Social Security administration refusing to do his job because he is part of a mutinous glob of lifer government employees trying to sabotage Trump’s second presidency.
In the battle against government waste and fraud, the New York Times sides with waste and fraud. It corralled Coral (not Carol) Davenport (Smith Collège 1998) from her job of telling the world it will end because of climate change and pressed her to take on the Department of Government Efficiency.
At what point did we decide that the hardworking shoulders carrying this country should be kicked instead of thanked?
DOGE is just scratching the surface. Perhaps we need to start delving deeply into the budgets of local and state government.
Once again the rapier wit of Don Surber looks at last week’s significant events and provides his own, somewhat ribald interpretation, while the rest of us experience a new day in Trump’s America
DOGE is the key to returning the American government back to its original Constitutional roots: “of the people, by the people and for the people!”
The Deep State Swamp and its denizens and creatures are up in arms about what President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing with their Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Over the years, Americans have blithely come to accept the inefficiencies that are embedded in seemingly all government agencies as “just the way it has always been.”
The Hippocratic oath tells the doctor to do first no harm. Yet that is what a surgeon has to do. Sometimes we need to do harm to do good. The trick is to balance the harm and good, so the good far outweighs the harm.
Suddenly, Democrats and their union bosses say there are winners in a government shutdown. There always have been. Most federal employees get a paid vacation out of it.
The media has hyped and fueled American partisan conflicts since the birth of the Republic. That was one reason that instigated the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts.
For years, the U.S. government has quietly been conducting genetic experiments on mice, changing their DNA in ways that would make even Mary Shelley raise an eyebrow.
Is DOGE a thief, a thieftaker (modern usage: bounty hunter) or a diversion? With all the contradictory reports and poor information, it is hard to tell what they are. Both judicial review and thieftaking are rooted in English Common Law, but those that use judicial review are loath to employ thieftaking. To make matters even more complex and muddled, DOGE has not taken a single thief yet, but stories abound about Musk companies getting sweetheart deals. What is the truth? Few know for sure since most of DOGE’s work is done behind shuttered windows with maybe a few slats left open to tantalize the populace. We need open windows and actionable information.
DOGE appears to be taking a short-term approach to change. Audits are rearward looking and point-in-time. While important, they will not systematically change the federal government.
Now what is the President’s DOGE Agenda? I have yet to find a clear, written statement that lays out this agenda. Yes, there is a lot of talk, but perhaps still no written policy statement and objectives.
A series of critical inflection points led us to the point where we currently are with a strong central government with several corrupt and potentially criminal acts. If it was not the federal government, elements of the central government could be subject to RICO. The key inflection points center around the Progressive Era in the early 20th century and include the Wilsonian bureaucratic reforms, the 16th Amendment and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution. Real reform must address these areas. Otherwise DOGE may save some money this year, but will not fundamentally change how the government is structured or operates.