Author: Raynor James
A funny thing happened recently while I was cleaning our refrigerator. I turned on “rumble” and listened to it like listening to the radio. I got a guy I’d never heard before, and what he said got interesting.
He talked about Elon Musk and something he’s doing with his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) assignment. Apparently, a team he has assembled took over an office building in Washington, D.C. that previously housed folks who handled the cash flow from the U.S. Treasury Department. Elon’s team has reportedly changed the codes to the locks on the building and changed the access codes to the computers in the building. Elon’s team had control of the check book.”
In a simple (but brilliant) maneuver, Elon got his team to agree to be on location 24/7. That included swinging into action on the week-end, quickly blocking the previous team out, working 12 hour shifts, and living and sleeping on site. It’s said that they are to be well compensated for putting their normal lives “on hold” until they have uncovered what is being spent for what, and whether they are appropriate uses of our precious, hard earned taxpayer dollars.
That makes sense, doesn’t it? It makes common sense that people who make a deep commitment to accomplish their mission can achieve a huge amount more than a workforce who works 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, and many of whom seldom, if ever, report into the office.
What has Elon’s team found out? (You are up to date on your blood pressure medicine, aren’t you?) For starters, the previous keepers of our national check book were under instruction to NOT DENY ANY CLAIM. Really? Yup! NOT EVEN IF THEY KNEW IT WAS A FRAULENT CLAIM, and NOT IF THEY KNEW THE PEOPLE MAKING THE CLAIM WERE ACTIVE TERRORISTS. What’s more, they followed their instructions!
It’s reported that Elon Musk is amazed at the amount of money flowing out of our collective piggy bank has continued to be money that the disbursers knew to be in those aforementioned categories, and they continued to do it anyway — until Elon and his team shut them down. Go Elon! Go team!
On his “War Room” programs, Steve Bannon has made many references to Elon Musk’s having managed to “cut off the check book.” However, he is still distressed about members of the House of Representatives’ who talk a conservative line but who are squishy about cutting expenses THIS YEAR.