Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
Examples and studies show that sometimes firing lots of government workers actually makes the government less efficient because those agencies and departments are understaffed. DOGE is firing any workers it can, not searching for actually unnecessary or bad workers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MycHGpcybB8
“My trepidation boils down to two things. First, for all the talk about cutting government waste and fraud, the DOGE-Trump team seems mostly animated by rooting out leftist culture politics and its practitioners in Washington. It feels that it is less about smaller government than it is about political transformation. While the two intersect, this strategy could fall short.
That’s in part—and this is my second point—because for those of us who care about permanently downsizing government and keeping it bound by constitutional rules to prevent the exercise of arbitrary power, DOGE is mixed. While there is a small probability the approach will succeed in reining in spending or the administrative state, it will be at the heavy cost of reinforcing the power of the executive branch and opening the door to the same abuse when the left is in power.
The probability may be higher, however, that they will fail to make a significant difference at all. If that is the case, we will be left with both a presidency on steroids and no meaningful reduction in government.”
https://reason.com/2025/03/03/how-would-milton-friedman-do-doge/
I Tried To Fix Government Tech for Years. I’m Fed Up.
https://reason.com/2025/02/13/i-tried-to-fix-government-tech-for-years-im-fed-up
Big Trump supporter regrets her Trump vote after she is fired under false pretenses from her government job. She says she got the highest possible rating on her previous review, yet was fired for poor performance.
Trump team thinks workers like her would be more productive in the private sector, and wants to get rid of any impediments to their often illegal and unconstitutional agenda and methods.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr6_qL17ryY
RFK Jr.’s massive cuts stun staff, leave senior employees scrambling
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/very-few-people-know-whats-happening-rfk-jr-cuts-surprise-and-alarm-00254822
“President Donald Trump is trying to revoke collective bargaining rights from most federal employees — the latest move in his aggressive campaign to weaken the federal workforce.
Trump issued an executive order late Thursday night relying on a rarely used provision of the federal labor laws that authorizes the president to exclude agencies from long-standing unionization rights if he determines that those agencies are primarily engaged in national security work.
The order purports to end collective bargaining with federal unions at numerous federal agencies and subdivisions, including the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Health and Human Services, Justice, State and Veterans Affairs, as well as the EPA and USAID. It also authorizes the Transportation secretary to exclude the Federal Aviation Administration and any other subdivision from labor rights.”
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“The order would eliminate collective bargaining rights from roughly 67 percent of the entire federal workforce, and for 75 percent of workers who are already in a union”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/union-rights-federal-workers-donald-trump-00257010
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-signs-executive-order-ending-050140227.html
Trump and Musk Social Security cuts are causing difficulties for recipients.
Cuts include attempts to stop people from scamming recipients and customer service.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IFJIxDRd0E
“A month after Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk began directing all federal employees to submit a weekly list of five things they accomplished during the previous week, technical issues have hit the process.
A number of employees across multiple agencies have received bounce-back emails indicating that the mailbox they were directed to email at the Office of Personnel Management is full, thus preventing them from sending their reports, according to multiple emails reviewed by ABC News.
After submitting their weekly “5 Things” email on Monday, some federal employees received an automated response from an OPM email address stating, “The recipient’s mailbox is full and can’t accept messages now. Please try resending your message later or contact the recipient directly,” according to the emails.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tech-issues-hit-doges-5-205159500.html
DOGE is not significantly cutting the deficit. To do that, you need to go through Congress. They are not creating government efficiency, they are just firing whoever they can, whether they are useful workers or not.
In Elon’s businesses, he gets quick feedback. So he can cut cut cut, and then see what’s broken and add back in. If a car doesn’t work or sell, something is broken, so let’s fix it. The variety of functions of the government don’t work that way. The government isn’t an engineering business building an actual car or rocket.
Some excuses for destroying government and using it to be self-serving are that the Democrats were doing it. But this isn’t really true. The largest change passed by Democrats in the last few decades is the Affordable Care Act…it was a transfer of money from blue states to red states.
Elon either holds several false beliefs, or he regularly lies and misleads about political issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vv6AvLsx4g