The Three Rs
This is our one & only chance to restore democracy from the dictatorship of the bureaucracy. It is now or never. It must be now.
Elon Musk
Education is a priority in our post-modern world. Unfortunately, some may have learned the proverbial three Rs of grade school but not the lesson of common sense, which is the focus of President Trump’s reformation of Washington and the government.
Listening to the legacy media and the Democrat leadership’s chatter about the DOGE team headed by Elon Musk, you might think they have no common sense regarding the deficit, the economy or the necessity of governmental reform. Since these people are not fools, one can only surmise that they are so driven by their ideology that they have collectively lost their minds.
They should listen to the genius Elon Musk, who logically explained to a room full of media and America the necessity of his audit and correcting the fraud, waste and abuses in a government that has become “bloated, fat and disgusting” (President Trump). Businessman Kevin O’Leary of Shark Tank explained that Musk has a mandate to audit rather than to act on his findings.
DOGE is but one of many avenues of reform underway by the Trump Administration, his advisors and Cabinet. I watched some of the televised first Cabinet meeting and was impressed by the assembled presidential entourage. I have to admit that I have a jaded attitude regarding Washington and rarely think the leadership represents the country’s best and brightest. But for the first time in a long time, I have hope. I understand that the feckless Washington Democrats and the legacy media refuse to get it and will resist any reforms that curb their gravy train. However, We The People get it. DOGE has shown us the corruption in Washington and the necessity of government reform.
The bloated and unelected bureaucracy that has served the Washington ruling class for decades must be changed. We must win this war or be forever enslaved.
Reform goes far beyond the discoveries of DOGE. Even the leftist Axios admits tax cuts are not the problem. Washington does not have a revenue problem. Washington has a spending problem. I won’t go wonky on you, but if you’re interested, I recommend you Google the Laffer curve, which shows that confiscatory taxation produces declining government revenue. And since the government can’t go out of business, it just prints more dollars, which produces inflation, devaluing the dollars in your pocket.
Have you ever been fired from a job? I have. Years ago, I had a summer job at McDonalds and the Boss’s motto was, “If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.” I didn’t have to answer an email or list five tasks I had recently accomplished because the Boss observed that my counter work was substandard. As a result, he put me on the garbage detail and when that didn’t work out, he said, “You’re done.”
The lesson I learned was there are Chiefs and Indians. The boss is the boss and if you don’t like taking orders, you should find a way to be your own boss. I did so fifty years ago. However, the MD after my name just revealed my new boss: my responsibility to my patients and the pursuit of excellence.
Also, about the time I was graduating from medical school, I rediscovered the Big Boss and the leadership of Christ. Things rapidly fell into place for me as Becky and I soon rediscovered each other and we became co-equal bosses in our marriage. Bob Dylan once sang that everyone’s “Gotta Serve Somebody.” Apparently, some federal workers have missed this important aspect of their education and employment prerequisites.
Becky and I are fans of Victor Davis Hanson, who is a brilliant scholar of classics, an emeritus professor and a conservative writer. My wife Becky is the editor of this column. She is also the CEO of our home and “the boss.” Complementing one of my essays, she once paid me a memorable compliment by jokingly referring to me as “Little Vic.” Yes, I was honored, but “Big Vic’s” recent essay, “Revolution, Resistance and Restoration,” (available at americanwirenews.com) is a testament of the real professor.
Hanson recognizes that we are in the midst of a counter-revolution led by President Trump against the bloated government and the Democrats’ resistance. But I believe the resistance also includes the globalist elites of Europe as Vice President JD Vance recently pointed out. Claus Van Schwab’s World Economic Forum and the legacy media are also part of the resistance cabal to Trumpism. However, the legacy media has largely destroyed itself because of their delusional hatred of Trump and their unprincipled dishonesty. I offer the example of MSNBC circling the drain, but all of them (AP, POLITICO, etc.) have dwindling readers and viewers and are in financial trouble as ad revenue declines and their USAID subsidies are cancelled.
I especially like Hanson’s use of the term restoration as the purpose of Trump’s MAGA movement and reforms. The restoration of government accountability and credibility of agencies like the IRS, FBI and DOJ must occur if our representative republic is to continue. Just recently it was reported that the IRS criminally leaked and made public more than 400,000 tax forms of citizens and businesses. The IRS has been corrupt since Lois Lerner, so whining about Elon Musk’s current audits is ridiculous and telling.
President Trump and his cabinet leaders are countering the lunacies of the Democrats’ open border policy, men in women’s sports and sexual reassignment surgery of children. It is astonishing that Democrats are siding with entitlement-minded government workers rather than We The People.
The oh-so-trustworthy Democrats screaming bloody murder about DOGE auditing the government because Musk isn’t an elected official is the height of hypocrisy. Perhaps the screams are more about fear of personal exposure than righteous indignation. Food for thought.
