I believe Elon Musk is a patriot of course he has his faults like all of us. The national debt is constantly growing, and it will eventually reach a point where it becomes unmanageable. At that point, we’ll be faced with alternatives that could devastate our country. We’ll either have to default on the debt, which could bring down the entire system, or try to inflate it away, which would leave us all significantly poorer, potentially approaching third-world conditions. We’d be vulnerable and unable to maintain the same level of defense.
Elon Musk saw this coming. His work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was an effort to try to save the country by reducing the deficit. There are things we can do without, and we need to tighten our belts. We could greatly reduce foreign aid and be far more selective in our giving. Of course, we would never abandon humanitarian food assistance, but our support should be smart and strategic.
There are other places to trim as well. We don’t need a Department of Education; the few essential functions it performs could be absorbed by other agencies, eliminating redundant overhead. And we do not need taxpayer support for art. If art can’t support itself, it has no automatic right to public funding. The same holds true for public broadcasting.
We need to do away with the thinking that “it’s only $100 million.” As a nation, we need to start watching our nickels and dimes, or nickels and dimes will be all we have left.
Elon Musk saw this coming. His work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was an effort to try to save the country by reducing the deficit. There are things we can do without, and we need to tighten our belts. We could greatly reduce foreign aid and be far more selective in our giving. Of course, we would never abandon humanitarian food assistance, but our support should be smart and strategic.
There are other places to trim as well. We don’t need a Department of Education; the few essential functions it performs could be absorbed by other agencies, eliminating redundant overhead. And we do not need taxpayer support for art. If art can’t support itself, it has no automatic right to public funding. The same holds true for public broadcasting.
We need to do away with the thinking that “it’s only $100 million.” As a nation, we need to start watching our nickels and dimes, or nickels and dimes will be all we have left.
