ON GOVERNMENT WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE

       Despite what Inquisitor-General Elon Musk seems to believe, the existence of waste, fraud, and abuse in the Federal Government is not something that he just now discovered or that the American Public didn't know about. It's been an issue in the US since the 1970s, and there were moves to correct such problems going all the way back to the 19th Century. 

      In order for a Government to function, it has to reply upon Public Trust. Even the Chinese Communist Party figured out this basic fact: which is why China today makes a point of exposing corruption within its ranks unlike the Maoist Era when such things were swept under the rug. Unlike China, however, public apathy and the glorification of selfishness and opportunism here has allowed the problem to fester and grow into a Way of Life.

     The problem is not that these agencies exist. The problem in the US is---and has been throughout recent history---Regulatory Capture.

     Regulatory Capture occurs when there are few to no limitations between Big Government and Big Business, either through weak laws or lack of enforcing existing laws. Typically, government and corporate bureaucrats slide back and forth between Government agencies and Lobbying Firms depending on which wing of the Uniparty is in power. Thus the interests controlling the agencies are in charge of regulating or awarding contracts to the very people they are supposed to be exercising oversight upon. Ignoring this issue is one of the main problems with DOGE's approach. 

    What DOGE is doing essentially is removing the middle-man in the whole cycle of systemic corruption. Yes, DOGE is eliminating governmental waste, fraud, and abuse: but at the same time, it is removing any and all barriers to corporate waste, fraud, and abuse. 1930s Japan and Italy were historical examples of how well societies based on that model succeeded. 

    The Soviet Union and Maoist China operated on a similar principle, except that in their case, monopolies were run by academic 'efficiency experts' as opposed to CEOs. What it illustrates is that the Neocons' worship of Capitalist economic Social Darwinism is really not radically different from the Marxist Historical Determinism that they claim to oppose. 

   If the basic needs of the American citizenry are under the control of an unaccountable Government bureaucracy or a handful of unaccountable Corporate Boards of Directors, the end result is the same. Freedom means nothing without economic freedom. A Corporate Oligarchy is just as much a tyranny as a Political Oligarchy; one is not a solution to the other.

   America was at its most prosperous times when wealth was most evenly distributed. This was not accomplished by Government fiat: it was accomplished by sensible moderation between the Government and the Corporate sector insuring that we had a reasonably level playing field of economic competition. All societies have a segment that is very rich and another that is very poor: such things have always happened and always will. However, a strong and largely independent Middle/Working Class is the backbone of a Constitutional Republic. A people with a measure of economic independence rarely will surrender that independence to power-hungry demagogues. 

     There have been a number of alarming surveys recently showing that in America---especially among the younger people---that Democracy has failed. The reason for this is because the Corporate/Government symbiosis has limited opportunities, especially for young people. Since the National Government and their Corporate Overlords have routinely flouted any pretense that the US is any longer "a government of, by, and for the people" and people under 30 or so have grown up in such a milieu, they mistakenly conflate the ideal of self-government with the abuses of power that they see and experience on a regular basis.

    Giving more authoritarian control to this group or that group will not solve the problem. The proper approach is restricting unaccountable power and returning more of it to the people. That means breaking up monopolies, restoring unions, cracking down on revolving-door lobbyists, smashing criminal NGOs: in short, enforcing the laws. 

   DOGE, however, is taking an approach that will make the problem worse. That, of course, is the plan however much they try to portray it as a populist mandate. Musk and his gangsters are followers of a philosophy which is anti-democratic and regards repressive Technocratic Regimes like Singapore and the United Arab Emirates as models for the United States. 

       Democracy hasn't failed the American People: the American People have failed Democracy. Self-Government without Self-Discipline simply will not work well. As long as we continue as a population to feed on greed, envy, fear, and opportunism, there will be no shortage of demagogues lining up to gratify those selfish desires in exchange for more power and control. 

     The problem that America is facing is not a political one; it is a spiritual one. We've abandoned the ideal that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights to one where the ends justify the means; the ends in this case premised on a win-at-all-costs mentality where personal power and status are the highest goals of human endeavor. That is what we must work on changing if we hope to continue as a Free Society.

    

     

THE STATE OF THE UNION, SUCH AS IT IS

      Following last week's debacle at the Ukraine Peace Talks, the Executive Branch decided to pretend that Congress was still relevant to the functioning of the US Government. President Musk and Vice-President Thiel sent their spokesmen to make the speech, although after the 'Peace Deal' fell through, Musk was personally in attendance to keep an eye on things. Just as Zelensky was removed forcibly from the White House, a Democrat Congressman was removed from the Chamber, adding to the drama and theatrics. Former CIA operative and current US Senator Elissa Slotkin gave the Democrats' scripted rebuttal---mostly complaining that the Great Reset was being imposed too suddenly for the sheep-like populace to adjust to it all. Senator Slotkin, however, missed the point: today, all across the Media Spectrum Liberals will be melting down and their heads will be exploding, which is the desired effect. As far as the American People are concerned, the important thing for the Ruling Class is controlling the Narrative while the Oligarchs do as they please behind the scenes.

       Amidst all of the Controversy and New Normals discussed by the deep-thinking general public this last week, few noticed some of the actual activities going on during the wholesale reorganization of the American Republic. Tariffs---a massive wealth-transfer from small businesses to the Corporate Cartels---were illegally imposed on American consumers. The equally illegal Department of Government Efficiency also addressed our collapsing infrastructure by gifting Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and BlackRock with a virtual elimination of funding for passenger rail services; and, of course, since our remaining Railway Cartels are about half Canadian-owned, the tariffs will ensure even more concentration of the industry in Wall Street/WEF hands. 

      Speaking of distribution control, the Controlled Opposition has been celebrating Trump's tough Alpha approach relating to the Panama Canal. Bush Machine operative Marco Rubio successfully pressured the Panamanian Government to terminate its partnership with China's Belt-and-Road Initiative; and news broke this weekend that the Hong Kong-based firm operating Chinese ports in Panama will be sold to a US company. The Controlled Opposition leaves out the minor detail that the US company concerned is BlackRock, but that will make little difference to the American Right as long as we own the Libtards and get those evil Yellow Devils. 

      Likewise, despite earlier Republican promises that Social Security wouldn't be effected by proposed wealth-transfers and Party Purges, the SSA announced on Friday that “The agency plans to reduce the size of its bloated workforce and organizational structure, with a significant focus on functions and employees who do not directly provide mission critical services...the cuts will require reduction-in-force actions that could include abolishment of organizations and positions The agency will close six of its 10 regional offices. SSA has operated with a regional structure consisting of 10 offices, which is no longer sustainable.”

    SSA Director Michelle King was purged last week after refusing to allow Musk's brownshirts access to the SSA database. The White House elevated a low-level staffer named Michael Dudek to Acting Director, after he posted an article praising DOGE on social media. Dudek is holding the position until Fiserv CEO Frank Bisignano is rubber-stamped by the Senate as Director. Fiserv holds a near-monopoly on financial data-processing, and its top shareholders are Global Banking Cartels (including BlackRock) which combined own about 30% of the company. Bisignano himself is former Chief Operating Officer of WEF Top 100 Strategic Partner JP Morgan and raised about $1 million for Republican causes in 2024. Like Musk, Bisignano is one of the highest-paid CEOs in the US and is notorious for padding his salary with deep cuts to employees and services.He's also closely associated with WEF linchpin Jamie Dimon, a character much like Musk in his temperament. 

     Musk has been repeating a narrative that 20 million of America's 72 million Social Security recipients are deceased: a story about as believable as the tall-tales of Haitian immigrants terrorizing small towns or Chinese spy-balloons. Nonetheless, nobody's going to question it; because the American New Right has convinced itself that WEF-connected Plutocrats never lie and are only working for the good of red-blooded, true-blue Americans who only need to work harder and do as they're told so that they too can be Manly Alpha Leaders.

       What we're actually witnessing with all of these disgusting spectacles and wholly illegal power-grabs is the end result of a culture which has been wholly degraded by a social climate which constantly plays to its lowest elements and actively discourages appeals to our better nature in favor of promoting envy, greed, and Paranoia. Both sides of the Uniparty and their Corporate Overlords have intentionally cultivated cultural degradation because, as we've seen throughout history, a population with no sense of its own worth makes more obedient subjects for Governments and better slaves and serfs for the economic Ruling Class. The Great Reset and its Neocon concomitant, the Dark Enlightenment, have the goal of returning Western Civilization to that state of near-Barbarism. The so-called American Right---despite what it, in its self-righteousness, believes about itself---is subject to the same failings of Human Nature as its counter-weights among the so-called Left. Both sides are being played for fools by vested interests and neither side wants to admit that fact. That the Ruling Class doesn't even bother disguising its intentions any longer is evidence of how secure a hold they think that they have on Public Opinion. 

     This is the true State of the Union: and it's reflected by the people chosen to represent it. It's time that we started asking ourselves if we really want to live in an Elon Musk or Andrew Tate kind of world. This is what we're going to keep getting as long as we look to self-appointed Alpha Supermen to save us from ourselves and outsource our thinking to Trash-Culture celebrities.