America Is Going Broke. Will the Department of Government Efficiency Help?
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has started making moves.
The D.C. media are furious about his attempts to cut government agencies.
But I take Elon Musk’s side.
More efficient government has been promised often. It’s never happened.
Instead, government just grew.
Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) showcases stupid government “investments” like the $118,000 study of finger snapping, which the National Science Foundation said was “inspired by the infamous finger snap of the [comic book] villain ‘Thanos.'” The government concluded that “varying degrees of friction between the fingers alters…performance of a snap.”
Gee, thanks.
They even spent thousands of dollars to study whether Neil Armstrong, landing on the moon, said: “One small step for man,” or “one small step for a man.”
NASA says no “a” is audible in the recordings, and I never heard an “a,” but we all paid for an expensive study in which the Science Foundation concluded, “Ambiguity exists.”
Gee, thanks.
They also spent $1.5 million to study ways to improve the taste of tomatoes. Researchers found that sugar helps.
America is going broke. Silly rich people should fund such frivolous research. Taxpayers shouldn’t.
But each special interest will fight for its life, and even if Musk cuts all such funding, it would barely affect our ever-increasing deficit.
Let’s l
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