December 31, 2024
The DOGE Brothers Meet the Swamp
By Richard C. Lyons
We are coming into a New Year with a lot of excitement of feeling regarding a change of governing philosophy, from one of grotesque and profligate federal spending to one of rational cost cutting headed by the “DOGE Brothers.” The hope is that the nation will find its way out of having a federal government that acts, as it has for our lifetimes, as an abyss of plunder, and becomes instead a guardian of our property and liberty, as it should always be.
What we have is a federal government in $36.1 Trillion of debt, which amounts to $272,000 of liability per every American household. Last year alone the government spent $6.75 Trillion, which equals handing every citizen in America $20,000. Can any of us afford that? If you were free to spend that money on your family or your house or your business, what would you do with that freedom?
But you can’t. The federal government alone decides how to spend that money for you… after they have taken it from you.
The DOGE brothers and the incoming President have already been asked by a strategic media that’s protective of government spending, what will not be cut. Answer: not Social Security, not healthcare, nothing that is known as government’s mandatory expenses.
In other words, the DOGE brothers are trying to empty the ocean with a spoon or trying to untie the Gordian Knot with a toothpick. It has been tried before, most notably by David Stockman’s “Grand Design” to reduce government spending by 5.4 % during Ronald Reagan’s first term. The effort failed because even Republicans who wanted to reduce government expenses voted against any spending cuts that effected their office, their state, or their constituents.
Let me explain how that happened.
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