Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have certainly created a buzz around WDC and the nation regarding their partnership effort with incoming president Donald Trump and their Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). It is not difficult to find folks who believe that our government has become too large, too inefficient, and too intrusive. It is also not difficult to find plenty of ideas about how those bureaucratic problems might be addressed. What IS difficult is persuading our Legislative Branch of government to take these issues seriously and address them with transparency, common sense, and courage. We can all hope for some positive changes to flow from the DOGE offensive. Unfortunately, hope has historically proven to be thin gruel when attempting to nourish the effort of improving governmental efficiency.
In
February of 1982, President Ronald Reagan had a notion quite similar to that of
Trump’s DOGE; it was known as the Grace Commission. Here is a bit of history about it: https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/topic-guide/presidents-private-sector-survey-cost-control-grace-commission
. Reagan came into his initial
presidential term in the midst of a politically divided nation…not unlike what
we have today. Republicans loved them
some Reagan; Democrats despised the man.
Sound familiar?
The
Grace Commission accomplished very little.
Perhaps the time was not right for change. Perhaps the nation was not ready for the pain
that would inevitably accompany a serious restructuring of federal
spending. But…perhaps the fiscal and regulatory train wreck that has been occurring
in painfully slow motion since the
mid-90’s has reached sufficient crescendo as to spur some intestinal fortitude
within our Executive and Legislative branches of government. Trump is coming into office with a wind at
his back and at least for the time being, there is growing support for a
serious look at how our government conducts its business. However…if
our government is to become more fiscally responsible, someone’s ox will be
gored. In fact, a lot of peoples’ oxen will be gored.
I
worked for a smart man once who told me that when reforming governmental
bureaucracy, sometimes the train has to wreck in order to solve the
problem. There can be little doubt that
when examining the overall state of our government, the train has wrecked. The train is, in fact, continuing to wreck on a daily basis. Will it take a colossal collapse similar to the
Great Depression for our federal books to be brought to order…or…have we
arrived at a perfect storm of circumstances that offers real opportunities for real
change that will result in real
improvements? Only time will
tell.
Why
is there even a chance that DOGE might work?
https://amgreatness.com/2024/12/16/are-the-years-of-madness-ending/
https://amgreatness.com/2024/12/14/a-word-to-the-doge-reduction-is-not-synonymous-with-reform/
THIS is the illness that must be cured:
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/congress-releases-text-stopgap-funding-bill-includes-funding-disasters
In
the target rich environment of federal bureaucracy, regulatory reform, and
spending…where will Trump and DOGE go?
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/whats-the-point-of-the-department-of-education/
https://americanmind.org/memo/abolishing-the-department-of-education-is-not-the-answer/
https://reason.com/2024/12/14/student-debt-disaster/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3262731/trump-eyes-privatizing-postal-service/
https://reason.com/2024/12/12/bidenomics-goes-out-with-a-whimper/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/15/business/trumps-two-ftc-picks-could-remake-the-agency/index.html
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/12/how-harmeet-dhillon-can-tame-the-beast-at-doj/
And just for the heck of it…here
are some of my own ideas for governmental change…flashback to April/2018:
https://centerlineright.blogspot.com/2018/04/is-wdc-stuck-in-spin-cycle.html
Not
only has the Biden Administration left the domestic operation of our government
in a hot mess, he and his band of clowns have thrown together a foreign affairs
circus that has pushed global tensions to the breaking point. Strong, moral,
courageous, thoughtful, transparent, predictable, and humane leadership from
America is essential if our planet’s inhabitants are going to coexist and
maintain some semblance of human dignity and order. That is NOT
what we have today.
It all started downhill with this:
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/WILLFULL-BLINDNESS-An-Assessment-of-the-Biden-Harris%20Administrations-Withdrawal-from-Afghanistan-and-the-Chaos-that-Followed.pdf
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/12/this-is-your-life-antony-blinken.php
https://americanmind.org/salvo/getting-peace-in-the-middle-east/
https://amgreatness.com/2024/12/13/trump-is-right-america-must-stay-out-of-the-crisis-in-syria/
Perhaps there is hope:
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/world-leaders-are-all-over-the-map-in-responding-to-trumps-election/
Here
are some quick hits on the way out the door…
Speaking of “out the
door”…please…just LEAVE: https://amgreatness.com/2024/12/12/the-evaporation-of-the-obama-mystique/
We have Meloni in Italy…We have
Milei in Argentina…and now we have this lady in England. Has MAGA become an international cause…with
the first “A” becoming “fill in the blank”?
https://www.thefp.com/p/is-kemi-badenoch-the-next-margaret-e28
What in the hell is our president
thinking?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/12/bidens-monsters.php
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/12/the-daily-chart-pardon-me.php
What a novel thought for our
“esteemed” bastions of higher learning to consider:
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/hey-colleges-treat-students-like-adults/
This is the unique…and toxic…type
of corruption that Obama and Biden brought into our government:
https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/17/three-russia-hoax-bombshells-hidden-in-ig-report-on-doj-surveillance-of-congress/
Here is one of those questions that
will never fully be answered: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/12/how-much-voter-fraud-in-2020.php
Remember this…as Scully told
Mulder… “The truth is out there, but so are lies”:
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/new-jersey-bedeviled-four-possible-explanations-for-the-nonstop-drone-sightings/
Our society and culture is in a
very bad place when a man of honor and courage is disparaged as this man was:
https://americanmind.org/salvo/daniel-penny-is-a-hero-for-our-times/
How about some possible anthems for the DOGE...let's close it out with some great music...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBIxScJ5rlY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYpwfbNFQXA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxvVk-r9ut8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw4tcCbf2TE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBlaMOmKV4
...and here is my nominee, TURN IT UP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC3AYhiJCzg
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