Back on Feb. 11, while providing no evidence, President Donald Trump declared that the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” was in the process of eliminating “billions and billions of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse” in the federal government.
As many Americans have realized, however, DOGE is not about waste and inefficiency in government. It’s the culmination of a very long-standing strategy to get rid of a federal government that can provide help to a wide variety of people in need, limit the worst excesses of the private sector, and shore up stressed local communities, among other good causes that the private sector is notoriously unable to accomplish.
The U.S. population expanded about 60% since the 1950s. The size of the federal workforce was static / remained the same, meaning less full time federal employees now serve many more people. People who celebrate the indiscriminate firings of the so called "bloated" federal workforce will figure this out when they need some government service. Unfortunately this will probably be our elderly in need of support from the Social Security Administration that they paid into their entire working lives. Or lower income tax payers (who cant afford an accountant) who need support / advice from the Internal Revenue Service. The chainsaw approach to fixing the Federal government is not an improvement and will cause lasting damage, the only question is how much damage will be done.
I completely disagree with the core premise of this letter, which is that government is the solution to all of our problems. This is called "socialism" or "communism." These political movements end up making their citizens not just poorer, but much less free. All of the "successful" socialist governments end up restricting personal freedom because there is going to be friction between what the government bureaucrats/masters want and what individuals want.
Again, fundamentally, government doesn't produce anything. It is "overhead." Trying to run things that produce things cannot be done by committee. You need capitalist incentives and motives, where risk and hard work are rewarded with wealth. If government's role is to reduce personal wealth for the common good, then society doesn't work efficiently and less wealth is created.
Maybe with all of our modern advances, we will eventually get to a point where we have so much wealth that people don't need to work. But we aren't there yet. And weakening America by redistributing wealth from productive workers and entrepreneurs to everyone else is going to mean that dictatorships like China will surpass the US and then we risk eventual subjugation and war.
In order to buttress his argument, the author of this letter cites many false facts and uses his beliefs and biases instead. How else can you be against looking to root out fraud, abuse, and waste in government spending? This used to be the position of both parties, but now the Left is opposed. Secure borders used to be common sense for everyone; now the Left wants open borders. Low crime used to be widely supported. Now the Left wants criminals freed and Good Samaritans punished.
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The U.S. population expanded about 60% since the 1950s. The size of the federal workforce was static / remained the same, meaning less full time federal employees now serve many more people. People who celebrate the indiscriminate firings of the so called "bloated" federal workforce will figure this out when they need some government service. Unfortunately this will probably be our elderly in need of support from the Social Security Administration that they paid into their entire working lives. Or lower income tax payers (who cant afford an accountant) who need support / advice from the Internal Revenue Service. The chainsaw approach to fixing the Federal government is not an improvement and will cause lasting damage, the only question is how much damage will be done.
I completely disagree with the core premise of this letter, which is that government is the solution to all of our problems. This is called "socialism" or "communism." These political movements end up making their citizens not just poorer, but much less free. All of the "successful" socialist governments end up restricting personal freedom because there is going to be friction between what the government bureaucrats/masters want and what individuals want.
Again, fundamentally, government doesn't produce anything. It is "overhead." Trying to run things that produce things cannot be done by committee. You need capitalist incentives and motives, where risk and hard work are rewarded with wealth. If government's role is to reduce personal wealth for the common good, then society doesn't work efficiently and less wealth is created.
Maybe with all of our modern advances, we will eventually get to a point where we have so much wealth that people don't need to work. But we aren't there yet. And weakening America by redistributing wealth from productive workers and entrepreneurs to everyone else is going to mean that dictatorships like China will surpass the US and then we risk eventual subjugation and war.
In order to buttress his argument, the author of this letter cites many false facts and uses his beliefs and biases instead. How else can you be against looking to root out fraud, abuse, and waste in government spending? This used to be the position of both parties, but now the Left is opposed. Secure borders used to be common sense for everyone; now the Left wants open borders. Low crime used to be widely supported. Now the Left wants criminals freed and Good Samaritans punished.
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