All I want for Christmas is a DOGE!
While this isn’t a typical holiday request – more likely people would prefer a furry, friendly kind of animal who greets them at the door to a static, cold, unfeeling stack of program cancellation papers – this year, in 2024, The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is all the rage simply because the new non-government advisory board will bring something new and novel to the Washington swamp, an entity focused on cleaning up the gargantuan fiscal mess in the nation’s capital rather than bent on creating new complications.
Doge sounds great in theory, but trying to alter or move the mega Federal bureaucracy will prove to be a remake of the Sisyphus boulder push except that Greek guy had an eternity and Trump has only 4 years.
ReplyDeleteI really like.this except for one thing. Some honest hard working people at the bottom are going to lose their jobs while the upper tier will find work in tech, lobbying groups or the propaganda media.
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time in the 90’s, I did a five year stint in FEMA, SF Presidio R IX. As a result of time spent, I would always tell folks that they had no idea how completely fucked up the fed was, not to mention the various state AHJ I dealt with regularly. So nothing surprises me when in comes to .gov incompetence, fraud, waste and abuse. Legio XIX
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've ever seen so many business people on a presidential cabinet. They are going to kick some serious ass.
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