Comments on: The dynamic duo: Musk and Ramaswamy

By: R2L

R2L — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 04:47:45 +0000

JohnTyler on November 21, 2024 at 1:49 pm has it right, that almost all of the governmental excesses and problems originate in the (now totally feckless) Congress.
But it goes back a ways, as SS was made “pay as you go” back in 1939, I believe, where that Congress overroad FDR’s veto, to buy votes from early recipients who would not have contributed enough to cover what they received in “insurance” payments.

We have not yet elected a truly MAGA Congress, and given the 6 year term for senators, we cannot do so with just one election.

By: Dax

Dax — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 03:05:21 +0000

Thanks for the info about doges, Niketas and Abraxas!

By: JackWayne

JackWayne — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 02:16:41 +0000

If this is their sole mission, it will fail. The fundamental problem with our government is not how much they do, it is what they do. Scope creep is to be expected from any organization. If the organization mission is misdirected, then the scope becomes real crap. Reform is really needed. For example, the EPA was created to clean up the superfund sites. They have not done any of them in nearly 50 years. Trump should issue an EO ordering the EPA that they can’t do anything outside of cleaning superfund sites until all sites are cleaned. That would make it easy to cut budget and staff. Try to cut staff and budget without that mission change = Fail.

By: Mike Plaiss

Mike Plaiss — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 02:00:13 +0000

You are right Rufus.

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 01:48:02 +0000

I read their entire essay. I found it quite good, and promising, but I wish they would not have mentioned a “6-3 Supreme Court” as being in their favor.

The Judicial branch should be impartial and Musk and Ramaswamy open an unnecessary path to criticism by implying in writing that they have the court on their side.

By: SHIREHOME

SHIREHOME — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 01:04:32 +0000

I wish them, and us, luck

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 01:00:23 +0000

Since neither is in government, and each is richer than a three-armed King Midas, and each has friends in government, there’s nothing the government can do to them except murder them. And they are rich enough to afford private security. Not to mention outspend the DoJ should an enemy end up in charge there.

And, having such freedom, can think outside the box, a term which is likely insufficient for this particular issue.

By: Grandpagrumble

Grandpagrumble — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:21:13 +0000

One of their goals is to get federal workers to work at the office and cease the COVID work at home habit. I read somewhere a stat that 80 % of State Dept and 65 % of Defense Dept employees work in the office, but that statistic for other agencies, like Education, HHS, Transportation, etal. is more like 30%. That’s ridiculous that 2/3 of the employees in an organization do NOT work at the organization. If 2/3 of your employees don’t even come to work, that’s good evidence that your entire organization isn’t necessary.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:04:31 +0000

It’s almost Meat Cleaver time!

By: TommyJay

TommyJay — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:14:36 +0000

Mike Plaiss on November 21, 2024 at 1:25 pm:

Very nice Milton Friedman video. I had heard him discuss such issues before, but I’d never seen that particular video which encapsulates that topic extremely well.