I've always wanted a successful businessman to go into the government and try to do everything to make it more efficient.  I think there are tons of things.  The government has more red tape than a tape factory.  It takes a ridiculously amount of forms to fire a person.  Many jobs are performed with little accountability.  There's excessive levels of bureaucracy.  Some jobs are grossly overpaid.  The government's contracting procedures are so bureaucratic that it scares away a lot of vendors and the ones who do bid jack up their price because of it.  I"m sure there's things that can be automated.  There's things currently being done by government employees that could be outsourced at a fraction of a cost to tax payers.  I'm sure there's some fraud to find.  Who knows what else Elon will recommend?  I find it sad that some people mock the idea of trying to make the government more efficient.  TDS is real.

This is a little dated at this point, but I remember when Newt became speaker of the house.  He said that there was a planning commission for the bicentennial celebration with a budget of millions of dollars per year.  The bicentennial had occurred 18 years ago!  Our government was spending money to plan for an event that took place 18 years in the past!  It's unreal.

I also love the example of the school with a leaky roof.  However, there was no federal funds to fix roofs.  However, there were federal funds to build new schools.  So what did they?  They built a new school.  It's insane.  We need to end this government waste.

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