DOGE Dips Toe Into Sea of “Me Too”

Pols & bureaucrats are rightly blamed for the nation’s $36 trillion debt & a main cause of inflation, yet a hidden culprit is the “checks they send out that people love.” So, is cutting the deficit “easy” if it weren’t “unpopular”?

WSJ columnist Greg IP recently opined that the Swamp isn’t “driving” the US deficit, it’s the people receiving them who are. Well, there’s no doubt that the Swamp has bought the allegiance of a like-growing electorate with, ironically, all taxpayers’ largess, but there’s something about this “the devil made me do it” argument that doesn’t ring true. As President Ronald Reagan once famously said when asked how to end the government’s addiction to deficit spending: “It’s the same way you protect your virtue … learn how to say ‘no.’” Ergo, when will the pols & their army of bureaucrats learn to say, “no,” in the incoming Trump era 2.0?

As Ip noted, “When Congress passed a 118-page CR that had been cut down from 1,571 pages, DOGE leader Elon Musk posted: ‘Your actions turned a bill that weighed pounds into a bill that weighed ounces! But slim isn’t the same as cheap. The bill still included an eye-watering $100 billion for disaster relief & $10 billion for farmers. [Meanwhile & separately] a bipartisan majority in the Senate agreed to spend a supposedly “stripped out” $200 billion over 10 years to give Social Security benefits to public-sector employees,” the vast majority of who are already covered by generous retirement benefits. BTW: Has anyone outside of DC heard about the billions Congress also separately voted to build the Commanders’ spanking new stadium on the site of the old RFK stadium, i.e., after being “stripped out” of the original CR? Do the more things change the more they still stay the same?

Davd Soul