I just wonder why no one ever thinks of saving money and cutting waste by eliminating the Department of Defense and the Pentagon? All those jets and tanks that end up rusting in the desert outside of Tuscon, AZ, because the government thinks we need 1,000,000 jets and not just 100 or so. Why not get rid of the instruments of war instead of the people who deliver services to other people?
Of course that would be the right and decent thing to do but our government/Congress is filled with corruption. They make boatloads of $$$$$ vis a vis stocks/donations from big pharma and the weapons industry etc. They don't care about We the People. They passed laws to enrich themselves decades ago. Btw, the Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921!
I usually agree with you Dennis but you are way off base here. Perhaps you haven't been paying enough attention to how deep the deep state runs. We'll let the SCOTUS decide about its Constitutionality, but I am favor of the boldness, the wide span, and the swiftness of the administrations' actions.
If anyone knows the intricacies and fraud in Washington it sure as hell is Dennis! For the record I don't vote and am neither Republican or Democrat. Just so you know Trump left office with over a billion dollars whereas Obama departed with only a paltry 680 million. But there's no corruption there though right?
Trump scum-in-law Jared left with 750 million and then received another 2 BILLION from the Saudi's after leaving the WH. No influence peddling there either right? Do you have any idea who Tiffany Trump is married to? That would be the son of Massad Boulos, Michael Boulos. Then research his father's (and Trumps) involvement with the Syrian Phosphate Trade. Keep in mind the USA put sanctions on Syrian Trade.
Trump is as dirty as all the rest but has the best gimmick the world has ever witnessed.
kamala harris's husband Doug Emhoff is (at the time of Hurricane Helene devastating North Carolina /Tennessee /Florida) ....the biggest stockholder of Black Rock's Lithium mine in North Carolina...Land grabbers hitting up peeps, some whose families had lived there for many generations.
good one! SEE: "DANGER CLOSE" Book By: Patrick Byrne on how the RussiaRussiaRussia Hoax and fake'd Russian prostitute scandal was created from scratch by Obama Administration's John Brennan, Comey, and HRClinton pulled in by her GREED for foreign $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Around 4% of the federal budget is spent on civil service wages. But ya know what's blown up? Payments to federal contractors. This is a continuation of the push to privatize (and monetize) EVERYTHING. Government, as Dennis points out, is to SERVE THE PEOPLE. Business (private sector) has a singular goal: profit. This King Musk has no intention of eliminating waste or making life better for the people of our country. It's quite simple: he's the largest private contractor with the Federal government, so he's out to exploit that in every way possible. What could possibly go wrong?
Not clear that i am unhappy about the firings. Would be glad to see USAID and NED thrown overboard. Why do we need to finance the media of other nations?
And the jobs in the country, keep rising, or maintaining their status on the Jobs report, due to the gov'ts addition of new jobs. I believe that 20% of all jobs are gov't jobs? So its a fake report, and the jobs, mostly not necessary.
I am not happy when someone loses a job. But there is waste. And i and many others do not obtain the salaries, benefits of these gov't workers, just so the BLS can state, jobs are increasing.
USAID has some problems with misapplication of funds. But it also feeds a lots of starving people, get medical help for many, does a lot of good work in the world, and that is the main point, to do a morally decent thing. And this country benefits from the good will that generates.
Pilgrim, i was reading the other day, that USAID subsidizes the UKR media, without which, Zelensky couldn't mask the real effects of the war.
According to Mike Benz, Obamas mother worked for USAID, USAID gave money to Burisma, Liz Cheney worked for USAID.
It looks to me that USAID was an extra-Dept of State cutout, that was supporting destablilzation all over the world, with the usual USA footprint. Coups, disinfformation, etc. Lets not forget that Samantha Power headed it for a while, the notorious influence she had on turning Lybia into a rogue state.
The bottom line, seems, at least to me, and i might be wrong, is that it was a 'tool' of our gov't to create disinformation all over the world, (i think it subsidizes much of EU media, which would explain why the EU populus are dumber then a bag of rocks to allow their gov'ts to ruin their own economies), and worked as a neocon implement to maintain our 'empire' - a policy that has ruined our nation.
Knew I shouldn’t have said anything. I don’t have time for this. Have you never seen news items from places torn by war, climate disasters, etc. The good will generated by our helping folks in those situations/places is valuable. But more important, that is the decent, humanitarian thing to do.
I am not your enemy, I am simply asking questions. You dont have time for this? "news items" are propaganda by these same type of international aid organizations which leech of taxpayer money and send/launder it abroad under the guise of philanthropy. Yes some of it might reach people but at what percent? How much of it is siphoned, and used for nefarious purposes? Have you seen news items about how much people in our own country are starving and need "AID". AID in USAID stands for Agency for Intl Development. Be moral, be skeptical, but ask questions, always. Climate disasters? How many climate disasters are we ourselves starting, pretending to care about, then using as leverage to profit and control people?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that at least part of what USAID has done over the years is supply people in third world countries with energy that involves hooking them up to fossil fuel energy grids, rather than supplying them with renewable energy that would make much more sense for them. hence, the "Development" part of USAID.
If only it worked that way! Did you see the cash falling or more likely being thrown out of the helicopters as US collaborators fled Afghanistan? Where do you think that money came from? What about the billions unaccounted for in Ukraine? Did that go to feed the people in that war torn land? I'm convinced that a lot of the food sent to countries that have experienced disaster never gets to the people it was intended for.
i just don't believe this once benevolent good intentioned Executive Order made by President Kennedy...that has been twisted for the globalist cabal is anything but evil criminal money laundering for disgusting immoral grifters..With innocent pawns drawn in....Using marxism and "Rules For Radicals"-Saul Alinsky (Book Dedicated To Lucifer) evil tactics...(the Bolsheviks, Hitler/nazis, Dr. Freud all seeded by the cabal to cause division, depopulation/wars, destruction of the family, more power in less hands...If an entire agency/org gets eliminated, it doesn't mean other good things won't happen. Democrats are just jaded to do nothing but put a stick in the wheel of Trump Administration trying to save our asses from real horrid destruction the globalist cabal had planned for US w/Agenda21/30 USING compromised democrats/and anti-Trump RINOs ....ThanQ God for another Trump 4 year reprieve from demonic persecution and suffering.
i agree...actually jobs that enhance our country WILL be coming back to America. Tariffs are both a negotiation tool, and an organic effective incentive for companies to return to U.S. And it's time Americans honed skills for real survival...This b.s. 3-headed triad is going DOWN--- -Vatican+City Of London (secret financial area in London where even the QEII and Kings have to take off their shoes and bow to real power) +WashD.C. the military industrial wing . 6,000 patents peeps say will get released from suppression, including free energy i'm hearing...We can be on the precipice of a fresh start
Your intent is well but please DIG INTO the waste and abuse uncovered by following the USAID payments. Money went to fund left wing media outlets, like Politico, that pushed a far left narrative, globally! Money went to enemies of the United States! Money went to Soros and open border fronts (501c3 and c4)! Money was spend to enable the illegal invasion of our already over burdened nation! Money was sent to study the effects of cocaine on Chihuahuas! It's sick!
I am tired of Government abuse and a deep state of protected civil servants who do whatever the hell they want, promoting fringe political agendas that favor the left.
I'm sick of federal waste and abuse. It is time to run the nation like a business, holding Civil agencies and employees accountable for performance, and seeking to improve all government services! Holding employees accountable for abuse of power and corrupt dealings is paramount. The government works for us, not the other way around. Getting rid of NGOs and government agencies who undermine freedom, truth, and the citizens of the United States IS MOST WELCOME.
This is the beginning of a long past due purge in Government. No illusions.
I agree with much of what you say, but also want to add that I worked for the U.S. civil service for two summers back in college, and one of the two agencies had a majority of workers who did very little work, ever.
I finished the first make-work task they gave me in two weeks, looking forward to moving on to something more meaningful, but when I finished my supervisor was astonished, and told me that she expected it to take me the whole 3 months of of my appointment. She couldn't think of anything else to give me to do. After a week or two, during which I noticed that no one else was doing any work at all, they moved me up to the office of the head of the agency where I was able to do some semi-productive work for the rest of my time there. The agency filled a skyscraper near the Washington Mall. Most of the workers were just passing time each day, waiting for the work day to end so that they could go home. One worker stands out in my mind because she spent most of her time knitting.
A close friend of mine worked for another agency across the street from mine, and her agency was highly productive.
So Trump is right that we need to eliminate the make-work agencies, and also the deeply corrupt agencies like USAID, and also the deep corruption within some of the agencies such as what you've also mentioned.
There are some flaws in how Elon is carrying out Trump's goals so far. Across-the-board one-size-fits-all punitive measures are more likely to eliminate the most talented workers who can easily get jobs in the private sector. They need to do a closer analysis and offer incentives for the staff who are talented and dedicated to serving the public to stay on. But it's also true that a lot of waste can be cut, and I'm grateful that they're determined to do something about it. There's no justification at all for hardworking taxpayers to pay for make-work, and previous administrations should have cleaned up all of the waste AND the corruption.
It's a disappointment to me that so many Dems are critical of their goals to eliminate the large number of make-work positions as well as the deeper corruption. I was a staunch Dem for close to 50 years, and now I don't resonate with that Party in any way at all.
NOAA/NWS is on the chopping block and they are not a make-work agency. The staff and services provided to the public should remain a government function, but here we are.
Thanks for giving a specific example of a problem. I don’t like that I’m not hearing about incentives to keep the people who are performing valuable and important services, in parallel with cutting out corruption and waste. It seems like calling for that is something that we might be able to unite around and rally for, and that might have a positive impact on what they’re doing.
I led an organization that was state-funded and had 250 people on the payroll, and offered incredible highly ranked services to the public. We had new across-the-board punitive policies from a brash incoming Republican administration, all in the name of making sure we weren’t taking advantage of our state support. I retired about two years after the new policies were put in place because I couldn’t in all honesty recruit the best new young people to the org, knowing the new policies wouldn’t be good for their career and they would instead be better off taking a job in some other org or some other state. By about 5 years later, all of the most talented staff had found great positions elsewhere, and the org was left with very mediocre staff and mediocre/much less effective services. So I fully understand the problems with one-size-fits-all punitive measures.
For example, for many if not most federal workers, coming into their offices every day involves a one-hr commute each way, and a lot of work would otherwise get done by talented and motivated staff during those two hours if they didn’t have to sit in traffic or on a crowded metro subway car. My son runs an org with about 50 very talented staff who all work from home, collaborating by zoom, and no way would he require any of them to instead commute for 2 hrs per day. He would consider that pure folly, as would I.
So if I was the head of one of the federal agencies, I would be arguing that the most talented staff need to be retained and, given the effectiveness of well run zoom meetings, the industrious staff need to be able to work from home most days. That would be an example of an incentive I would advocate for keeping industrious staff members.
Anyway, I understand that Elon and Trump may not be working toward their goals in the best possible way. What I think we should do is get behind their goals and strongly rally for the best possible way to accomplish them.
USAID is a key component of the US government’s “regime change” operations worldwide. USAID spends billions of dollars every year propping up “NGOs” overseas that function as shadow governments, eating away at elected governments that the US interventionists want to overthrow. Behind most US foreign policy disasters overseas you will see the fingerprints of USAID. From Ukraine to Georgia and far beyond, USAID is meddling in the internal affairs of foreign countries –
There needs to be transparency and an audit with full disclosure and accountability.
Don’t need government services. We have a service economy for that. Thought you were more libertarian Dennis. Cutting government employees and departments means there are fewer opportunities for the corruption and capture of favor which is where the vast majority of government waste lies. Time to pare down our government to basic things and reduce the tax burdens on individuals and businesses.
the federal employees are the government? Too bad Big DNC machine couldn't hold a primary, then their annointed she/her in chief couldn't protect all these "necessary" jobs in the govt. Just put more wars on the bill eh?
Of course running a government like a business will never work because they have completely different objectives. It's always been downright silly to compare a government budget to that of a household.
However, neither you nor Elon Musk have addressed the elephant in the room--the defense and "black" budgets. The Defense Dept. can't even pass an audit and has no official idea where hundreds of billions of dollars go every single year.
If Trump and Musk don't touch that, they're not serious about balancing any budgets. Neither is anyone else who never brings it up.
What's wrong with Tulsi? Does anyone pass your Liburul™ purity tests? Do you pass your own? The left went so far left, everyone even remotely disagreeing with them just appears "right wing", these labels have no meaning, especially since DNC machine has been churning out wars and oppression non stop. Did you know a D has been in power 75% of the time the past 16 years since 2008? How's that working out for us?
you bloviate so hard that one wonders what generates the wind. And more importantly YOU'RE BORING!!! But to answer your question, Tulsi sucks because she has no morals, and she's compromat via Putin and Assad. It almost seems like a shibboleth that everyone in the Trump admin is.
ad-hominem attacks of the weak liberal mind, so preoccupied with Russophobia, noble wars, and virtue signaling, that they are unable to find an argument worth making. Using strange words to impress people only works with sycophants who cannot read, and only want to hate the other they fantasize as the enemy, their countrymen with a differing dissenting opinion. The war machine decided Tulsi was bad for business, and the liberal sheep bleat in unison to destroy anti-war messaging on behalf of "spreading democracy".
so you actually BELIEVE that Pres. Bashar al Assad gassed his own people? And you still believe the RussiaRussiaRussia Hoax created by Obama Administration's John Brennan, James Comey, Hilary Clinton to try and destroy Donald Trump....Read "Danger Close"-Patrick Byrne...And it's tres sad when Leftists just insult peeps ...it's just a hollow evil marxist tactic...You will be getting an AVALANCHE of wake UP calls of info COMING SOON...Just open your brain ...take the red pill...climb out of cognitive dissonance...breathe deep! you will love the freedom of not being chained to the corrupt democrat/globalist cabal's stupido talking points.
I disagree with you wholeheartedly Sir, your view is from that of one with rose colored glasses, my employment puts me into contact with Federal, State and local officials and civil servants, most of which serve redundant functions. I’ll single out middle management which more often than not, is the majority of staffing and is the majority of the problem.
Instead of the focus on the organizations goals, it’s focus is on perpetuating its own job, delaying, short staffing initiatives & work that actually serves the public.
To give a politically incorrect analogy, we need more Indians and less chiefs.
The taxpayers deserve better and if we fail them now the country & world will suffer when we are no longer there.
I believe what you have said, Mr. Kucinich, is that this audit in full should go on, but with full analysis of what worker positions are actually accomplishing. This is how I would hope to see the analysis of "goods and services" be carried out. Whoever created the tier system of what government workers do should be the last thing to be on the chopping block. The SERVICES and how they relate to the welfare of the American people is the devil in these details. Jesus, I would hope there is competency behind the human resource analysis part.
I just wonder why no one ever thinks of saving money and cutting waste by eliminating the Department of Defense and the Pentagon? All those jets and tanks that end up rusting in the desert outside of Tuscon, AZ, because the government thinks we need 1,000,000 jets and not just 100 or so. Why not get rid of the instruments of war instead of the people who deliver services to other people?
Of course that would be the right and decent thing to do but our government/Congress is filled with corruption. They make boatloads of $$$$$ vis a vis stocks/donations from big pharma and the weapons industry etc. They don't care about We the People. They passed laws to enrich themselves decades ago. Btw, the Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921!
Just like Israel - then how could we ever, ever, ever possibly protect ourselves from all the people that "hate" America and want to kill us?
Don't forget that we, the government,. not We the people, brought it on ourselves.
See above re: rampant corruption in "our government"
one department at a time, Elon will get there
I usually agree with you Dennis but you are way off base here. Perhaps you haven't been paying enough attention to how deep the deep state runs. We'll let the SCOTUS decide about its Constitutionality, but I am favor of the boldness, the wide span, and the swiftness of the administrations' actions.
If anyone knows the intricacies and fraud in Washington it sure as hell is Dennis! For the record I don't vote and am neither Republican or Democrat. Just so you know Trump left office with over a billion dollars whereas Obama departed with only a paltry 680 million. But there's no corruption there though right?
Trump scum-in-law Jared left with 750 million and then received another 2 BILLION from the Saudi's after leaving the WH. No influence peddling there either right? Do you have any idea who Tiffany Trump is married to? That would be the son of Massad Boulos, Michael Boulos. Then research his father's (and Trumps) involvement with the Syrian Phosphate Trade. Keep in mind the USA put sanctions on Syrian Trade.
Trump is as dirty as all the rest but has the best gimmick the world has ever witnessed.
kamala harris's husband Doug Emhoff is (at the time of Hurricane Helene devastating North Carolina /Tennessee /Florida) ....the biggest stockholder of Black Rock's Lithium mine in North Carolina...Land grabbers hitting up peeps, some whose families had lived there for many generations.
thank you
agree
This is NOT creeping authoritarianism, THIS IS A COUP planned well ahead! https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-doge/
yes like the Maidan coup of 2014, financed by USAID. Move over Russophobia, Muskophobia is the new fad
good one! SEE: "DANGER CLOSE" Book By: Patrick Byrne on how the RussiaRussiaRussia Hoax and fake'd Russian prostitute scandal was created from scratch by Obama Administration's John Brennan, Comey, and HRClinton pulled in by her GREED for foreign $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Around 4% of the federal budget is spent on civil service wages. But ya know what's blown up? Payments to federal contractors. This is a continuation of the push to privatize (and monetize) EVERYTHING. Government, as Dennis points out, is to SERVE THE PEOPLE. Business (private sector) has a singular goal: profit. This King Musk has no intention of eliminating waste or making life better for the people of our country. It's quite simple: he's the largest private contractor with the Federal government, so he's out to exploit that in every way possible. What could possibly go wrong?
Not clear that i am unhappy about the firings. Would be glad to see USAID and NED thrown overboard. Why do we need to finance the media of other nations?
And the jobs in the country, keep rising, or maintaining their status on the Jobs report, due to the gov'ts addition of new jobs. I believe that 20% of all jobs are gov't jobs? So its a fake report, and the jobs, mostly not necessary.
I am not happy when someone loses a job. But there is waste. And i and many others do not obtain the salaries, benefits of these gov't workers, just so the BLS can state, jobs are increasing.
USAID has some problems with misapplication of funds. But it also feeds a lots of starving people, get medical help for many, does a lot of good work in the world, and that is the main point, to do a morally decent thing. And this country benefits from the good will that generates.
Pilgrim, i was reading the other day, that USAID subsidizes the UKR media, without which, Zelensky couldn't mask the real effects of the war.
According to Mike Benz, Obamas mother worked for USAID, USAID gave money to Burisma, Liz Cheney worked for USAID.
It looks to me that USAID was an extra-Dept of State cutout, that was supporting destablilzation all over the world, with the usual USA footprint. Coups, disinfformation, etc. Lets not forget that Samantha Power headed it for a while, the notorious influence she had on turning Lybia into a rogue state.
The bottom line, seems, at least to me, and i might be wrong, is that it was a 'tool' of our gov't to create disinformation all over the world, (i think it subsidizes much of EU media, which would explain why the EU populus are dumber then a bag of rocks to allow their gov'ts to ruin their own economies), and worked as a neocon implement to maintain our 'empire' - a policy that has ruined our nation.
why are they starving? how much food does America through away every day? Why do we wage endless war instead of endless arms dealing.
Knew I shouldn’t have said anything. I don’t have time for this. Have you never seen news items from places torn by war, climate disasters, etc. The good will generated by our helping folks in those situations/places is valuable. But more important, that is the decent, humanitarian thing to do.
I am not your enemy, I am simply asking questions. You dont have time for this? "news items" are propaganda by these same type of international aid organizations which leech of taxpayer money and send/launder it abroad under the guise of philanthropy. Yes some of it might reach people but at what percent? How much of it is siphoned, and used for nefarious purposes? Have you seen news items about how much people in our own country are starving and need "AID". AID in USAID stands for Agency for Intl Development. Be moral, be skeptical, but ask questions, always. Climate disasters? How many climate disasters are we ourselves starting, pretending to care about, then using as leverage to profit and control people?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that at least part of what USAID has done over the years is supply people in third world countries with energy that involves hooking them up to fossil fuel energy grids, rather than supplying them with renewable energy that would make much more sense for them. hence, the "Development" part of USAID.
If only it worked that way! Did you see the cash falling or more likely being thrown out of the helicopters as US collaborators fled Afghanistan? Where do you think that money came from? What about the billions unaccounted for in Ukraine? Did that go to feed the people in that war torn land? I'm convinced that a lot of the food sent to countries that have experienced disaster never gets to the people it was intended for.
i just don't believe this once benevolent good intentioned Executive Order made by President Kennedy...that has been twisted for the globalist cabal is anything but evil criminal money laundering for disgusting immoral grifters..With innocent pawns drawn in....Using marxism and "Rules For Radicals"-Saul Alinsky (Book Dedicated To Lucifer) evil tactics...(the Bolsheviks, Hitler/nazis, Dr. Freud all seeded by the cabal to cause division, depopulation/wars, destruction of the family, more power in less hands...If an entire agency/org gets eliminated, it doesn't mean other good things won't happen. Democrats are just jaded to do nothing but put a stick in the wheel of Trump Administration trying to save our asses from real horrid destruction the globalist cabal had planned for US w/Agenda21/30 USING compromised democrats/and anti-Trump RINOs ....ThanQ God for another Trump 4 year reprieve from demonic persecution and suffering.
i agree...actually jobs that enhance our country WILL be coming back to America. Tariffs are both a negotiation tool, and an organic effective incentive for companies to return to U.S. And it's time Americans honed skills for real survival...This b.s. 3-headed triad is going DOWN--- -Vatican+City Of London (secret financial area in London where even the QEII and Kings have to take off their shoes and bow to real power) +WashD.C. the military industrial wing . 6,000 patents peeps say will get released from suppression, including free energy i'm hearing...We can be on the precipice of a fresh start
Here's an example of how USAID supported the funding and creation of a Covid19 bioweapon.
https://americanliberty.news/commentary/the-smoking-gun-us-funded-covids-patient-zero/jhart/2025/02/
Your intent is well but please DIG INTO the waste and abuse uncovered by following the USAID payments. Money went to fund left wing media outlets, like Politico, that pushed a far left narrative, globally! Money went to enemies of the United States! Money went to Soros and open border fronts (501c3 and c4)! Money was spend to enable the illegal invasion of our already over burdened nation! Money was sent to study the effects of cocaine on Chihuahuas! It's sick!
I am tired of Government abuse and a deep state of protected civil servants who do whatever the hell they want, promoting fringe political agendas that favor the left.
I'm sick of federal waste and abuse. It is time to run the nation like a business, holding Civil agencies and employees accountable for performance, and seeking to improve all government services! Holding employees accountable for abuse of power and corrupt dealings is paramount. The government works for us, not the other way around. Getting rid of NGOs and government agencies who undermine freedom, truth, and the citizens of the United States IS MOST WELCOME.
This is the beginning of a long past due purge in Government. No illusions.
I agree with much of what you say, but also want to add that I worked for the U.S. civil service for two summers back in college, and one of the two agencies had a majority of workers who did very little work, ever.
I finished the first make-work task they gave me in two weeks, looking forward to moving on to something more meaningful, but when I finished my supervisor was astonished, and told me that she expected it to take me the whole 3 months of of my appointment. She couldn't think of anything else to give me to do. After a week or two, during which I noticed that no one else was doing any work at all, they moved me up to the office of the head of the agency where I was able to do some semi-productive work for the rest of my time there. The agency filled a skyscraper near the Washington Mall. Most of the workers were just passing time each day, waiting for the work day to end so that they could go home. One worker stands out in my mind because she spent most of her time knitting.
A close friend of mine worked for another agency across the street from mine, and her agency was highly productive.
So Trump is right that we need to eliminate the make-work agencies, and also the deeply corrupt agencies like USAID, and also the deep corruption within some of the agencies such as what you've also mentioned.
There are some flaws in how Elon is carrying out Trump's goals so far. Across-the-board one-size-fits-all punitive measures are more likely to eliminate the most talented workers who can easily get jobs in the private sector. They need to do a closer analysis and offer incentives for the staff who are talented and dedicated to serving the public to stay on. But it's also true that a lot of waste can be cut, and I'm grateful that they're determined to do something about it. There's no justification at all for hardworking taxpayers to pay for make-work, and previous administrations should have cleaned up all of the waste AND the corruption.
It's a disappointment to me that so many Dems are critical of their goals to eliminate the large number of make-work positions as well as the deeper corruption. I was a staunch Dem for close to 50 years, and now I don't resonate with that Party in any way at all.
NOAA/NWS is on the chopping block and they are not a make-work agency. The staff and services provided to the public should remain a government function, but here we are.
Thanks for giving a specific example of a problem. I don’t like that I’m not hearing about incentives to keep the people who are performing valuable and important services, in parallel with cutting out corruption and waste. It seems like calling for that is something that we might be able to unite around and rally for, and that might have a positive impact on what they’re doing.
I led an organization that was state-funded and had 250 people on the payroll, and offered incredible highly ranked services to the public. We had new across-the-board punitive policies from a brash incoming Republican administration, all in the name of making sure we weren’t taking advantage of our state support. I retired about two years after the new policies were put in place because I couldn’t in all honesty recruit the best new young people to the org, knowing the new policies wouldn’t be good for their career and they would instead be better off taking a job in some other org or some other state. By about 5 years later, all of the most talented staff had found great positions elsewhere, and the org was left with very mediocre staff and mediocre/much less effective services. So I fully understand the problems with one-size-fits-all punitive measures.
For example, for many if not most federal workers, coming into their offices every day involves a one-hr commute each way, and a lot of work would otherwise get done by talented and motivated staff during those two hours if they didn’t have to sit in traffic or on a crowded metro subway car. My son runs an org with about 50 very talented staff who all work from home, collaborating by zoom, and no way would he require any of them to instead commute for 2 hrs per day. He would consider that pure folly, as would I.
So if I was the head of one of the federal agencies, I would be arguing that the most talented staff need to be retained and, given the effectiveness of well run zoom meetings, the industrious staff need to be able to work from home most days. That would be an example of an incentive I would advocate for keeping industrious staff members.
Anyway, I understand that Elon and Trump may not be working toward their goals in the best possible way. What I think we should do is get behind their goals and strongly rally for the best possible way to accomplish them.
USAID is a key component of the US government’s “regime change” operations worldwide. USAID spends billions of dollars every year propping up “NGOs” overseas that function as shadow governments, eating away at elected governments that the US interventionists want to overthrow. Behind most US foreign policy disasters overseas you will see the fingerprints of USAID. From Ukraine to Georgia and far beyond, USAID is meddling in the internal affairs of foreign countries –
There needs to be transparency and an audit with full disclosure and accountability.
Don’t need government services. We have a service economy for that. Thought you were more libertarian Dennis. Cutting government employees and departments means there are fewer opportunities for the corruption and capture of favor which is where the vast majority of government waste lies. Time to pare down our government to basic things and reduce the tax burdens on individuals and businesses.
Thank you Thank you Thank you Dennis! So good to hear someone lay the truth out.
1000 thousand thanks!
the federal employees are the government? Too bad Big DNC machine couldn't hold a primary, then their annointed she/her in chief couldn't protect all these "necessary" jobs in the govt. Just put more wars on the bill eh?
Of course running a government like a business will never work because they have completely different objectives. It's always been downright silly to compare a government budget to that of a household.
However, neither you nor Elon Musk have addressed the elephant in the room--the defense and "black" budgets. The Defense Dept. can't even pass an audit and has no official idea where hundreds of billions of dollars go every single year.
If Trump and Musk don't touch that, they're not serious about balancing any budgets. Neither is anyone else who never brings it up.
you lost all credibility when you supported Tulsi Gabbard.
Yeah it’s pretty clear he’s aligned himself with the far right mostly these days. Sad….
What's wrong with Tulsi? Does anyone pass your Liburul™ purity tests? Do you pass your own? The left went so far left, everyone even remotely disagreeing with them just appears "right wing", these labels have no meaning, especially since DNC machine has been churning out wars and oppression non stop. Did you know a D has been in power 75% of the time the past 16 years since 2008? How's that working out for us?
you bloviate so hard that one wonders what generates the wind. And more importantly YOU'RE BORING!!! But to answer your question, Tulsi sucks because she has no morals, and she's compromat via Putin and Assad. It almost seems like a shibboleth that everyone in the Trump admin is.
ad-hominem attacks of the weak liberal mind, so preoccupied with Russophobia, noble wars, and virtue signaling, that they are unable to find an argument worth making. Using strange words to impress people only works with sycophants who cannot read, and only want to hate the other they fantasize as the enemy, their countrymen with a differing dissenting opinion. The war machine decided Tulsi was bad for business, and the liberal sheep bleat in unison to destroy anti-war messaging on behalf of "spreading democracy".
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so you actually BELIEVE that Pres. Bashar al Assad gassed his own people? And you still believe the RussiaRussiaRussia Hoax created by Obama Administration's John Brennan, James Comey, Hilary Clinton to try and destroy Donald Trump....Read "Danger Close"-Patrick Byrne...And it's tres sad when Leftists just insult peeps ...it's just a hollow evil marxist tactic...You will be getting an AVALANCHE of wake UP calls of info COMING SOON...Just open your brain ...take the red pill...climb out of cognitive dissonance...breathe deep! you will love the freedom of not being chained to the corrupt democrat/globalist cabal's stupido talking points.
I disagree with you wholeheartedly Sir, your view is from that of one with rose colored glasses, my employment puts me into contact with Federal, State and local officials and civil servants, most of which serve redundant functions. I’ll single out middle management which more often than not, is the majority of staffing and is the majority of the problem.
Instead of the focus on the organizations goals, it’s focus is on perpetuating its own job, delaying, short staffing initiatives & work that actually serves the public.
To give a politically incorrect analogy, we need more Indians and less chiefs.
The taxpayers deserve better and if we fail them now the country & world will suffer when we are no longer there.
I believe what you have said, Mr. Kucinich, is that this audit in full should go on, but with full analysis of what worker positions are actually accomplishing. This is how I would hope to see the analysis of "goods and services" be carried out. Whoever created the tier system of what government workers do should be the last thing to be on the chopping block. The SERVICES and how they relate to the welfare of the American people is the devil in these details. Jesus, I would hope there is competency behind the human resource analysis part.