by Jeff Childers
Our favorite space billionaire may be launching the most adventurous part of his career. Traveling back to the land of the Taj Mahal for pro-Trump news, we begin with India Today’s morning headline, “‘I can’t wait..’ Elon Musk on reports of role in Trump cabinet to audit US government agencies.”
The gist is that “reports” say Trump floated the idea of appointing Musk to audit federal executive agencies to trim waste. One immediately recalls that, when Musk bought Twitter two years ago, he promptly pink-slipped three quarters of its 7,500 employees, and pressed ‘delete’ on fabulous employee perks like gourmet chefs, onsite acupuncture and wellness services, nap rooms, and an unlimited vacation policy.
Despite —or because of— those cuts, Twitter’s views are higher than ever.
Republicans who haven’t yet yielded up their last remaining scraps of hope for change would heartily endorse any kind of government audit. Let’s go! For his part, Elon says he’s raring to get started:
Maybe, instead of asking how much more a handful of billionaires could pay in taxes, we should be asking how much less tax money the entire federal government could spend.
It’s not just that Elon is a CEO with executive management experience like Trump. That is a huge advantage, but it’s not nearly enough, as we learned from Trump’s first dance with the deep state, exemplified in disastrous developments like former Exxon CEO and fleeting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who called his boss (Trump) a “moron” in a group meeting and then got fired via a Tweet.
We’ve always needed more and better executive ability leading the agencies. But executives have big egos, they’re busy with more profitable ventures, they often bristle when taking orders, and they frequently lack DC-level political ninja skills.
But Elon is different. Elon has been through the government wringer. He’s battled nearly every agency and survived. Not just survived; his rocket company has, against all odds, become the Pentagon’s and NASA’s key space contractor and now, the cleanup crew. One also wonders, from time to time, precisely what his underground ‘boring company’ might be quietly burrowing for the feds.
As far as I am concerned: how could Elon Musk possibly be any worse than what we presently have? I say, give the man a shot. Let him cut, and then cut some more, then keep cutting, until he burrows back to the beginning.
Remember when Trump tried to make cuts, small cuts, in the USPostal Service?
Those MFers threw a wildcat strike that caused billions of dollars in damages goods, slow deliveries, if ever, packages used for soccer practice, lost, mis-delivered mail, etc.
And that was over a small adjustment in the Post Office.
What Elon Musk will do is survivable, but we all ought to be prepared for the illegal and undermining pushback from gov’t employees like those Postal workers.
It will be worth it in the long run, but prepare for weeks, maybe months of illegal gov’t revenge.
Destruction is the left’s answer for every problem, but this HAS to be done, somehow.
illegals are only an issue if no one slaps them down
Remember Senator Imhofe’s reports on government waste? Now, Rand Paul does it, but the point is that MASSIVE government waste is just laying there, exposed. Not addressing it is criminal.
Having worked under the restraints of budgets, I laugh at how government just wastes BILLIONS of dollars and, instead of holding those responsible accountable, they just go back and get more money… and then waste that, too. When the work force becomes too lazy to complete the jobs, they just hire more people who, in a short period of time, become indoctrinated in the culture of, “What we don’t get done today, we might get done tomorrow. Maybe.” Bullshit.
I’ve always felt and respected what I believe to be that Trump views the taxpayer’s money as HIS money, and he watches over it as such. He is genetically ADVERSE to wasting money and time. No doubt, Musk is the same; he wouldn’t be where he is today if he just threw money into the chipper and hoped for some kind of productivity, as Democrats repeatedly and consistently do. If this comes to pass, those government parasites (not all are, but you KNOW the majority is) won’t know what the f**k hit them.
The Swamp is so deeply embedded it would completely devistate the order and function of our government to upturn it. The time to address it was a few decades ago when, unfortunately, the two functioning political parties were asleep.
I don’t think it would be that drastic. Remember the last government shutdown? It went completely unnoticed and Obama had to actually go out and close down open parks and monuments in order to inflict some pain on the public so they’d be aware the government was not “open”.
I remember that…
https://nypost.com/2013/10/03/obama-shuts-down-wwii-national-memorial/