Elon Musk, often described as the world’s richest man, has been leading a campaign to all but destroy the federal government, as we know it. He has been given free reign to accomplish this by POTUS 47. I’ve often wondered whether this represents a quid pro quo for his rescue of Trump’s personal finances. While Musk is a gifted entrepreneur and a genius at inventing and building stuff, his skill set does not translate to government. His wrecking ball approach to “saving” federal government money has resulted in untold suffering and death for numerous people.
Consider: One of his first targets was the U.S. Agency for International Development, a tiny outfit in the scheme of things. Seems we have discontinued, among other things, distribution of a peanut butter-like rescue food, costing about 12 cents a serving, which had kept numerous of the world’s poorest citizens (mostly small children), from starvation. Let’s see: The agency’s budget of several billion is what percent of the three trillion dollar expenditures? Do the math!
How about Social Security? This 90 year old program has kept millions of our own seniors out of destitution. What Musk has decried as a “Ponzi scheme” is administered by one of the most efficient federal agencies. By the way, Elon, IT’S OUR MONEY!
Capitalism is, for the most part, a wonderful economic system. There are, however, many societal problems for which the profit potential does not exist. That’s why we need a government – to fill in these gaps. According to Musk’s whiz kids, we waste too much money on, say, weather balloons. I guess we don’t need to worry about storms until they are, well, there. Wasn’t it Mark Twain who said something about everyone talking about the weather but nobody doing anything about it?
Oh, and while we’re reforming government, how ‘bout getting rid of crooked migrants? Why not put them on planes and ship them out? To Panama! We might make a few mistakes here and there, but we get a lot of brown and black people out of this fair and Christian land. Oops, the White House admits to at least one mistake (what the hell, they’re only human). Too bad we can’t rectify this; these folks now belong to the tin-horn dictator of Panama. Nuttin’ we can do. Sorry about that. Oh well, it’s only one (that we know of). What ever became of “due process”? Too inconvenient. Slows down our march toward a more perfect union.
Near the end of the first Trump presidency, a few (thousand?) of our citizenry held a demo at the Capitol. They were, er, peacefully protesting the thievery of Trump’s free and fair election to another term. They vented their anger in various ways (just ask the grievously injured police officers hastily assembled to restore order; at least the ones who survived). Fortunately for citizens falsely convicted of some of these atrocities, The Donald was able to return mercy shown to him by pardoning them. Such a forgiving people are we!
A small ray of hope: Co-President Elon, apparently, needs to leave government service to save his flagship car company from bankruptcy. Can’t come soon enough. Now, if we can persuade Co-President Trump to play more golf. C’mon, Donald! Life’s too short!
Rogernarc 