If we’re serious 020925

About waste and fraud

And we ought to be, because it costs all of us money in both the long and short run. But, unless we’re one of the contractors taking government money for service often but not always rendered competently, there’s no reason for anyone not properly hired or contracted by Constitutionally established authorities to have access to individual tax records, Social Security files, or any other personal information that the government may have on file. Whatever it is that Elon Musk, his billionaire cronies and techie kiddie patrol are doing, they shouldn’t need access to anything that isn’t already public information in order to track down enough waste and fraud to go a long way toward bringing the budget into balance.

That they are credibly reported to be going well beyond that and, in the case of USAID did so publicly, suggests strongly that there is ulterior motivation and one may reasonably argue that the source of that motivation is 1) Trump’s fragile ego, 2) Musk’s equally fragile ego and deteriorating financial situation, and 3) the neo-Nazi machinations of those behind Project 2025 many of whose writers including orchestrator Russell Vought have found their way past Trump’s denial of any association with the Project into senior positions in his administration.

By all means, let’s cut down on the waste of our tax money and that borrowed on the “full faith and credit” of the United States government, but let’s do it legally and in good order, starting with the nearly comatose Congress of the United States and following up with the executive branch by making sure that they are faithfully executing the laws of the United States, not the sometimes deranged mutterings of an increasingly delusional pseudo-President and his allegedly multi-billionaire patron and string puller. Call your Congresspeople and Senators and do what you can to wake them up; they don’t need to be ‘woke’, just awake and aware.