Haste Creates Waste

The reckless so-called “Department of Government Efficiency Service” (DOGE) exemplifies haste makes waste.  Their failed plan is destined to fail.

Violating Congressional powers with Executive Orders is unconstitutional. Using a wood chipper on governmental agencies is destructive. Trump/Musk are not going after the big ticket items like corporate welfare to better America. 

Gutting many invaluable programs cancelling contracts, eliminating entire agencies, and firing employees increases government inefficiency and mismanagement. Chaos depletes our economy. 

Reckless cuts will come back to haunt us. It is about selling the public a dream, however, this is a costly nightmare. It is great PR yet terrible policy.

Bottom line? Predicted savings— which DOGE claims are in the tens of billions of dollars (of nearly $7 trillion in annual federal spending with $36 trillion total debt)—will never materialize.

Means-testing and capping payments for agriculture subsidies, reforming federal contracting—these are real opportunities. But most of all, we need a bipartisan, fiscal commission to address the really difficult items.

Neither President Trump or Elon Musk are focusing on our tax code riddled with costly loopholes, special interest carve-outs, and outdated provisions that fail to generate sufficient revenue or promote economic efficiency.

How does cutting the Internal Revenue Service help us to collect more revenue for our country? 

Last year the U.S. spent $1.107 trillion on defense and $1.124. trillion on debt service.

While our economic growth has excelled virtually all industrial economies, not helping the average American is going to have huge economic repercussions.

Our federal budget deficit has exceeded 6% of GDP in 2024, just twice the average since the 1980s. Such future deficits are likely to stay abnormally high since it looks bleak things will change.

The Trump administration reports to lower the deficit in future years, however, it is unlikely they cut $2 trillion.

Why? Minimizing entitlement Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will cripple Americans of all walks. Similarly, “dismantling government bureaucracy,” will destroy our freedom.  The unintended consequences will be mass mismanagement. You can privatize certain public services however, if you don't manage these contracts fraud results.

Yes, the Fed’s are wasteful, however, not surgically removing this only increases it. 

There is rhetoric and there is reality. And unfortunately, our country now has entered the age of misinformation, and from this mismanagement stimulates waste and fraud.  Everything has a price and a cost. We are ignoring the very saving of real efficiency.

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