A recent viral New York Times article describing the conflict between Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency on the one side, and Trump’s appointed heads of federal agencies on the other, characterizes the core of their disagreement in the following way:
“Cabinet officials almost uniformly like the concept of what Mr. Musk set out to do — reducing waste, fraud and abuse in government — but have been frustrated by the chain saw approach to upending the government and the lack of consistent coordination.”
And I find myself thinking: My, but the American love of thrift is really something!
So, here is a prediction. Once conditions inside the United States have collapsed to such a calamitous degree that the one thing everybody can agree on is that it’s all gone to shit, one by one a contingent will grow of powerful people all saying the same thing:
“I didn’t mean any harm! I only wanted to cut back on the waste and the fraud! That’s not even to mention the abuse! Wouldn’t you? Can you blame me?”
What they won’t add is, “And besides! How was I supposed to know the leopards would eat my face?”
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