The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

I trust Elon Musk and his merry band of savants far more than I trust the rank-and-file government employees who have been wasting and stealing and misappropriating our money for generations.

The preposterous idea that Elon Musk has some grand and nefarious plan to fleece the American taxpayers by using the data that he gathers from his and his teams' examination of the books of the various agencies is risable. Much of our private data have been hacked from our own government already, or in the case of Donald Trump, leaked by a malevolent IRS.

And those government functionaries who are crying to the heavens that they and only they are the appropriate custodians of the people's information are the very same hacks who act contrary to both the spirit and the letter of the law with respect to spending our money.

Each government department has vast herds of auditors and compliance "experts" and supposedly ironclad systems to prevent fraud, misuse, and abuse, Yet even the most rabidly pro-government politician would admit to significant issues with government overspending. So what are these people doing? Why have they not uncovered over the many years they have been in existence the waste that Elon Musk's teams have found in only three weeks?

The answers are damning. Either they are pathetically, hilariously bad at what they are paid to do, or they are complicit in the waste and are criminals.

Either one is an acceptable answer, but there is only one result that is appropriate: termination of employment.

I'll take a pimply-faced, big-balled 20-something with a work ethic and superb skills any day over a fat, useless government employee counting the days until his pension kicks in!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]

posted by CBD at 11:00 AM

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