As a toddler I ceaselessly visited kin in southern Indiana. An important uncle tried to maintain me from exploring his cellar (as they have been referred to as then) by telling me the boogeyman was down there and would “get you” if I descended the steps. It labored.
Boogeymen are nothing new. They’ve existed within the type of politicians going again to the founding of the nation. See how Thomas Jefferson and John Adams described one another. One politician says if his opponent is elected, or his celebration features a majority, the nation will likely be destroyed. The opposite says the identical concerning the different individual and celebration. That has labored effectively, particularly for Democrats, who for many years have received votes from scared seniors by falsely claiming Republicans wish to destroy Social Safety, Medicare and Medicaid.
The most recent boogeyman is Elon Musk. Inside my quick reminiscence, Musk was hailed as a hero for creating Tesla which was going to avoid wasting the planet. When you wished to ship a advantage sign, you purchased one. Now, if you wish to ship a advantage sign, you do away with one, or different advantage signalers will vandalize, even destroy the automobiles and assault Tesla dealerships.
That is concerning the Institution holding onto energy and their misspent cash, nothing else. Some Democrats, who don’t have any insurance policies aside from opposition to President Trump, try to get well a stage of respectability by agreeing there’s waste in authorities, however they need Congress, not Musk and his DOGE group to chop it. This is called permitting the individuals who created the issue to offer the answer, which isn’t more likely to occur.
Individuals who select to serve their nation within the army or in public service after they might be making more cash within the personal sector have been as soon as admired and held up as worthy of emulation. John F. Kennedy inspired that spirit in his 1961 Inaugural Handle: “Ask not what your nation can do for you. Ask what you are able to do to your nation.”
Musk and DOGE are exposing what many Democrats and a few Republicans have finished to waste our cash over a long time. “The period of massive authorities is over,” declared President Invoice Clinton in his 1996 State of the Union tackle. It wasn’t. Whereas Clinton minimize 377,000 federal jobs, Presidents Obama and Biden added to the federal government employment rolls. The federal authorities is the largest employer in the US.
On March 27, Musk and a few of his DOGE associates have been interviewed by Bret Baier of Fox Information. Everybody ought to watch that interview. If you’re not outraged by what you hear, you’re a part of the issue. Right here is only one of many examples of the waste and fraud they’ve uncovered.
Musk: “(fraudsters) steal individuals’s Social Safety … they name in (and) declare to be a retiree, they usually persuade the Social Safety individual on the cellphone to vary the place the cash’s flowing. … That is taking place all day day by day, after which any individual doesn’t obtain their Social Safety. It’s due to all of the fraud loopholes within the Social Safety system.”
Baier: “How do you reassure those who what you all are doing is just not going to have an effect on their advantages?”
Musk: “No. In truth, what we’re doing will assist their advantages. Respectable individuals because of the work of DOGE will obtain extra Social Safety, not much less. I wish to emphasize that. Because of the work of DOGE, legit recipients of Social Safety will obtain more cash, not much less cash.”
There are quite a few different examples of misspending. Look them up and don’t take what Democrats and far of the media are saying as the reality. It isn’t.
Many members of Congress could give lip service to reducing such misspending, however the query is: will they do something about it? These TV adverts that attempt promoting us shares and damage legal professionals include very small print that claims: “previous efficiency isn’t any assure of future outcomes.” With Congress, it looks like it’s. They’re the boogeymen (and girls) in all of this.
Readers could e mail Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com. Search for Cal Thomas’ newest e book “A Watchman within the Evening: What I’ve Seen Over 50 Years Reporting on America” (HumanixBooks).
