What a crazy start to President Trump’s second term in office! I am very excited about DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) finding all the wasteful spending. This is a lesson in why NGO’s (non government organizations) should not receive government money or at least be required to show the books on how the government money was spent. This is also a clear review on how politicians go into office being paid a mere $175,000/ year and come out of office millionaires.
Billy and Killary Clinton were poor Arkansas lawyers and look at how much they are worth today! Where did they get their money? The Clinton Foundation! “Administrative costs”. Their Foundation was given donations from other countries as well and those Admin costs were a way for those other countries to pay the Clinton’s for their favorable actions during Bill’s time in office and Killary’s time as Secretary of State. Remember the Uranium deal she made with Russia? Yeah, she got paid under the table.
The Clinton’s are just one of thousands of beneficiaries of the USAID program. That is the black hole our tax dollars was disappearing into and it is why our country is so far in debt today. Now that the ‘cat is out of the bag’, perhaps we can do something to prevent this from happening again. One of the reasons Rome fell was because they found out how to spend money under the table and ‘poof’ Rome fell.
Unfortunately, my family will feel the pain but only briefly as my daughter, who was just hired on to NASA as a mechanical engineer and sworn in on January 13, 2025, will more than likely lose her job since the President said all probationary and new hires will lose their government jobs. My daughter has worked for a NASA contractor for years and she is working on VIPR and Gateway, the first is the autonomous moon rover that will take samples off the south pole of the moon in search of water and Gateway is the space station to launch from the moon to Mars. Another project is to go up on the next rocket to the moon to measure moon dust deposits on things landing there in order to figure out how to prevent equipment from malfunctioning. Yes, she will lose her job. Her former employer will take her back but she will be bumped from those projects.
I have no doubt that my daughter will eventually get back with NASA as they recruited her. She is an outstanding engineer and her projects always come in on budget or underbudget. She is someone who is cost effective and honest (brutally honest at times). Our government needs those type of workers.
So while everyone is crying about how unfair DOGE is, we have to ask a few things. Why are those that are screaming the loudest not trying to dispute those wasteful things DOGE is finding? Why are they trying to stop DOGE when it was an Obama program to deal with Obamacare fraud? The Democrats shot themselves in the foot on that one.
If you site back and look at this at a business standpoint you have to understand that a CEO (Chief executive officer) who goes into a new position to get a business back in shape has to do the exact thing President Trump is doing, auditing all departments and programs. 1st find where the wasteful and unnecessary spending is, cut it, cut back on employees (offer early retirements, buy outs etc.) and fire those who are problematic (not doing their jobs). Once the audit is done, then corrections are made to make things more efficient and then it is back to business with hopefully things in place that will prevent the wasteful spending from happening again. Once that is done, people who lost jobs as probationary employees can get that job back, when hiring is resumed. You have to take the bad with the good and right now, I want to see our government cut out wasteful spending and slush funds for bureaucrats and Congressmen to steal from the Tax payers!
Educated Cowpuncher 