64 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 2 Nov \ on: Is Elon Playing With Us? bitcoin
I think his motives, given the way he's spent his life, are likely more honest than the average person's but he's morally fallible like anyone. The thing to be concerned about is he has more talent to act on even normal motives.
I don't think there's much to Ron Paul being involved in DGE other than Ron Paul being aligned on shrinking gov. It's who a smart person would pick, isn't it?
I love Ron Paul, but he's 89 years old. I would be all for this department with the old guy at the helm, but I can't imagine Elon as a government bureaucrat.
Also, creating a new department, with a staff, offices, etc, seems like growing government. Simply slashing useless departments and jobs would be real efficiency.
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You're right, if they create/bloat more agencies than they remove/shrink, they're failing to do their job. However, we already know what government looks like without an agency tasked with keeping government small. Maybe you need fire to fight fire?
Simply slashing useless departments and jobs would be real efficiency.
I agree, of course, but choosing which depts and jobs to slash would need to be done by people and people organize themselves into depts in government. Maybe they can subsume some other agency rather than creating a new one.
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