“Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results.”
It does not matter who you attribute that quote to; it’s completely spot on. It’s also something that unelected bureaucrats, enabled by elected officials, know to be true.
Of course, the bureaucrats have a vested interest in the elected officials doing the same stupid things over and over again and expecting a good result. It keeps those bureaucrats in jobs.
Remember, many are elected to relieve you of your money to support their favorite bureaucratic projects, all of which are of questionable value to you, the taxpayer.
The bureaucrats that run these projects know that historically it’s been damn near impossible to eliminate the spending on things that just “didn’t work out”.
So, they rename the agency to something that either sounds nice, or they bury it five levels deep in a last-minute bill. That way, you get to keep your Senator’s favorite bureaucrats in tall corn with your hard-earned dollars.
Biden wouldn’t try anything different – in his half-century of being in government, he did nothing except preserve the status quo, all the while deepening the dig into the average American’s pockets. Look at big government. Agencies created as a knee-jerk reaction to a problem that may no longer exist, but the employees still get paychecks.
There are still regulations on the books that cover bleeding in barbershops, and there are gencies that regulate horse livery (last time you rented a horse?). Each of these fiefdoms are still funded with our tax dollars.
Corporate America is no better.
Remember Kodak? How about “The Bell System”. Boeing. General Motors.
Big. Ponderous. Incapable, because of their size to react to the needs of their constituents or customers.
Government is failure-adverse, and refuses to try new things. It’s also been exceedingly difficult to shutter agencies that either did not or were not able to accomplish their stated goal.
We finally have a President who understands this and is doing everything that he can make certain we don’t go back to the “bad old days” that we experienced with the Biden and Obama administrations.
So, let’s get rid of it. Clear the slate and start again. We the People hired a guy to make that happen. One of the best things about the President of the United States is that he’s not afraid to try new things and to do so quickly. He knows that to succeed sooner, he needs to fail faster.
Throw it against the wall, see what sticks. Shutter what does not and promote what does. Let common sense rule the day. He’s brought along a hired gun by the name of Elon Musk who shares this worldview and is going to move quickly and break some things.
Actually, Musk and DOGE are going to break a lot of things.
Most of what they are going to break are things we didn’t need in the first place.
Federal employees need to understand there is a new sheriff in town and they are not members of a protected class that can’t be dismissed, and that they won’t be getting a pension five times richer than those in the private sector.
So, we have a President with the wisdom to know that we have to get rid of the ineffective programs from the past, and he’s not afraid to cut them. He has a compatriot who has been compared to a chainsaw-wielding madman, and he’s cutting. Quickly and deeply.
I prefer the vampire hunter metaphor for Elon – he really is driving a stake through the heart of the bloodsuckers.
Are they going to cut needed programs? I guarantee they will. Not intentionally, but collateral damage. It’s part of the “getting it right” process. It’s also guaranteed that those programs will be replaced by things in the private sector, or at some time by a new government program staffed by people who don’t know the status quo and will be held accountable.
They are The Disruptor in Chief, aided by his principal hatchet man, Elon; disruptors that are definitely not set to stun. Fix it if you can, or tear it down and build new. Do it right now.
They are set to dismantle the bureaucratic state and replace it with lean, effective agencies that will know from the start that they work for the American people. We demanded better at the ballot box. We are receiving it.
Government should never again know “business as usual” as what it was under Obama or Biden. It’s going to be much better. It’s also going to be different.
Better is always different.
It’s Trump’s style, with Musk’s execution. I like it.
