In recent days I have been surprised to see several of the writers whose opinions I usually find valuable defend our government against the excessive depredations of DOGE, contending that there is actually little waste and fraud in Washington, and that most of that modest amount of spillage is inadvertent and well-intentioned.
In recent days I have been surprised to see several of the writers whose opinions I usually find valuable defend our government against the excessive depredations of DOGE, contending that there is actually little waste and fraud in Washington, and that most of that modest amount of spillage is inadvertent and well-intentioned.
Asked by Joe Rogan how DOGE decides which line items to ax, Elon explained that - far short of having to justify their programs and how they spend our tax dollars - all each entity is asked to do is to prove that it actually exists, and that it checks its email once per week. At the risk of sounding like a hard ass, that strikes me as a pretty low bar to have to clear.
Like most citizens, I have long supposed that there is probably a generous amount of corruption in our government, but even on bad days did not fear it to be this massive. In reading Jim’s post this morning a connection became clear: we have long known that the most corrupt country in Europe is Ukraine. Ukraine and the US both found ways to put agents of corruption in their highest political office. Biden and Zelensky then scratched each other’s backs, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Both “leaders” have rewarded the media and others who enabled their corruption, and ruined those who attempted to oppose it.
And now about half of our fellow citizens are in a righteous fury that these two great statesmen are being brought down. Surely they can’t look forward to April 15th each year, or feel contented about ever-worsening government services to taxpayers, and yet they are steadfast in their support of corrupt government. Will the scales never fall from their eyes?
The Deep State is going to be hard to eradicate, they absolutely believe that the central government is there to “take care” of the people. Even now, 49% of the people agree with them. America’s paradigm has to change and that will take a full Turning, ie eighty years.
The People are lost without real Leaders. Nothing insures the triumph of Evil more than the doctrines of individualism. But yes, of course the Leaders should encourage the people to be thrifty and industrious to a degree, but that's a very different thing than having no leaders or public square.
In recent days I have been surprised to see several of the writers whose opinions I usually find valuable defend our government against the excessive depredations of DOGE, contending that there is actually little waste and fraud in Washington, and that most of that modest amount of spillage is inadvertent and well-intentioned.
Asked by Joe Rogan how DOGE decides which line items to ax, Elon explained that - far short of having to justify their programs and how they spend our tax dollars - all each entity is asked to do is to prove that it actually exists, and that it checks its email once per week. At the risk of sounding like a hard ass, that strikes me as a pretty low bar to have to clear.
Like most citizens, I have long supposed that there is probably a generous amount of corruption in our government, but even on bad days did not fear it to be this massive. In reading Jim’s post this morning a connection became clear: we have long known that the most corrupt country in Europe is Ukraine. Ukraine and the US both found ways to put agents of corruption in their highest political office. Biden and Zelensky then scratched each other’s backs, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Both “leaders” have rewarded the media and others who enabled their corruption, and ruined those who attempted to oppose it.
And now about half of our fellow citizens are in a righteous fury that these two great statesmen are being brought down. Surely they can’t look forward to April 15th each year, or feel contented about ever-worsening government services to taxpayers, and yet they are steadfast in their support of corrupt government. Will the scales never fall from their eyes?
Not until the boot is to the balls, to quote Yuri Bezmenov, a defector from the Soviet Union.
God bless Yuri. He tried to warn us.
The Deep State is going to be hard to eradicate, they absolutely believe that the central government is there to “take care” of the people. Even now, 49% of the people agree with them. America’s paradigm has to change and that will take a full Turning, ie eighty years.
The People are lost without real Leaders. Nothing insures the triumph of Evil more than the doctrines of individualism. But yes, of course the Leaders should encourage the people to be thrifty and industrious to a degree, but that's a very different thing than having no leaders or public square.