By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-16 12:25:58 | Updated at 2024-11-16 14:25:01
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D.O.G.E. Is A Wonderful Concept, And Here Are Some Ideas To Get It Started
American Thinker | 16 Nov, 2024 | Gregory McCants
Posted on 11/16/2024 4:21:18 AM PST by MtnClimber
As a long-time federal employee, I know a great deal about the wasteful practices and corruption that should be Musk’s and Ramaswamy’s top priorities.
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Government bureaucracy, spending, and outright bloat have become an absolute travesty over the last five years (and really the last 30, but I digress) when the government went from a $4.4 trillion dollar operation in 2019 to an astounding $6.8 trillion dollar operation now. Reason published an excellent article discussing how to cut $2 trillion from the budget with minimal impact simply by tightening loopholes, implementing efficiency suggestions from the Government Accountability Office, and a few other regulatory and procedural changes. An excellent start, but more can be done.
The next step would be ending federal agencies that have shown themselves to be either redundant or that have disrupted the states in their role as the true custodians handling day-to-day matters for American citizens. These would be the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Department of Education (DOE), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
FEMA probably just wrote its own obituary with the revelation that a FEMA official in Florida told workers to “avoid houses with Trump signs” in the wake of Hurricane Milton, leading to loud calls for defunding the agency. The truth is that emergency disaster relief should not be handled by yet another agency with large layers of bureaucracy.
Instead, states should be able to request emergency disaster relief funds directly from Congress, with the appropriations then used to purchase necessary resources and materials, ideally from private vendors who can compete for the contracts. This would lead to increased efficiency and better prices for the taxpayer. This would also allow the government to engage in strict accounting to ensure federal funds go where they are supposed to go.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: defecit
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1 posted on 11/16/2024 4:21:18 AM PST by MtnClimber
To: MtnClimber
Can President Trump eliminate enough of the bureaucracy without getting impeached?
2 posted on 11/16/2024 4:21:32 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
To: MtnClimber
Oops. Need link to source.:-)
3 posted on 11/16/2024 4:22:19 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Emerson paraphrased, "If you strike at the king, don't fail." They failed. )
To: MtnClimber
Impeached or not, there’s no doubt the fur is going to fly.
4 posted on 11/16/2024 4:23:08 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Emerson paraphrased, "If you strike at the king, don't fail." They failed. )
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