> > Hard pass - he's doing great w0rk for the American people. Why WOULDN'T we
> > want to audit government spending???
> Sure: appointed, vetted and confirmed experts in the fields of the relevant
> agencies should do that with careful thoughtful precision. Not a loud-mouthed
> lying xenophobic tech bro billionaire who's a demonstrated expert at using
> government funds to prop up his businesses, going in with a sledge hammer to
> agencies he knows nothing about.
True. I told this story in another echo but will share it here since it
has come up. Back in the early 2000s, we had a governor's candidate that
ran on stopping "waste, fraud, and abuse" and appointing "businesspeople"
to run the government more efficiently. He won. Most of the people
appointed had no clue how government works. Some waste was identified and
eliminated but, for the most part, all they did was change the party that
was wasting, frauding, and abusing the taxpayers.
They also promised to prosecute former government officials (sound
familiar?) but, in the end, only one was prosecuted and, IIRC, that is
because the feds were already on to him.
They were not tech bros (the top person over the tech departments couldn't
log himself onto his own computer) but they were supposedly successful
business people (debatable).
When they left office 4 years later, after soundly losing the next election, the
state was in economic shambles. It took our small state about 12-16
years, give or take, to dig back out of the hole they left us in.
* SLMR 2.1a * Politics n. Poly "many" + ticks "blood sucking insects"
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