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Elon Musk Pitches ‘Government Efficiency
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Posted By: Imright, 8/13/2024 3:59:04 PM

Tesla CEO Elon Musk pitched a “government efficiency commission” to cut government waste while speaking with former President Donald Trump on Monday, and offered to “help out” with such an endeavor. Musk called for the commission during his more than two-hour conversation with Trump on Monday night. Trump was very receptive to the idea. The relevant conversation begins around the 1:44:00 mark: (X Video) “I think it would be great to just have a government efficiency commission that takes a look at these things and just ensures that the taxpayer money, the taxpayers’ hard-earned money, is spent in a good way,” Musk told Trump.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: planetgeo 8/13/2024 4:20:59 PM (No. 1777512)
I've got a much better solution than creating a new “government efficiency commission”, which would not materially change anything. Instead, announce that ALL federal agencies except the military will be outsourced within 2 years to private companies to be operated on performance-based 5 year contracts. Such contracts would be competitively bid, with annual performance reviews. Costs would plunge. Service to customers would improve. Unions, and deadwood, insubordinate employees would be gone. And overall efficiency would skyrocket. And the Democrat Party would be destroyed forever without their millions of public parasite employees with their golden parachute pensions. Vote for me, planetgeo, to REALLY "fundamentally transform" our government. (I kid...maybe...maybe not)
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Reply 2 - Posted by: stablemoney 8/13/2024 4:26:55 PM (No. 1777515)
I see government efficiency as eliminating 50% of the government.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: spinpilot 8/13/2024 4:40:36 PM (No. 1777525)
Deep state is going to take him out!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Starboard_side 8/13/2024 4:50:42 PM (No. 1777529)
I think it would be a winning issue if framed properly. Need to improve efficiency, productivity and reduce redundant programs/departments. Democrats were excited about reimagineering policing a few years back so they should be equally excited about reimagineering every government program, agency, department, etc., right? Presume AI may have a hand in this task that could eliminate a large number of jobs with the expectation of improved efficiency and customer satisfaction. Then make the VA into the premier medical facility in the country - the best doctors and care givers should want to be associated with the VA much like they may at the Mayo Clinic or Cleveland Clinic. Our Vets deserve better than what has been given them and deserve the benefit of the doubt instead of made to prove they need care.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: unagator 8/13/2024 4:54:54 PM (No. 1777530)
Realistically, getting rid of the deadwood is tough, but you could incentivize identifying and eliminating useless regs. Make it like a $10k spiff for every $1M saved in regulatory cost.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: jimincalif 8/13/2024 5:18:03 PM (No. 1777537)
I see government inefficiency and incompetence as the last barriers protecting our freedoms. Imagine a DHS, FBI, CIA, etc. that were as evil and corrupt as they are now, but combined with ruthless efficiency. We need to scale government back to its constitutional limits. Our government as it exists is “destructive of these ends” (our rights as enumerated in the Declaration). The last thing we need is for this destructive force to become more efficient.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Catherine 8/13/2024 5:26:20 PM (No. 1777540)
Here's how government works. Offices draw up budgets for their fiscal year. If, at the end of that year, they have money left over - they do everything they can to spend it. If they show money left over, the government takes that as a sign they don't need that much and reduces what they give them the following year. Trust, the money gets spent, often on ridiculous things (one office carpeted their hallways) and money is never returned to the government.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: MickTurn 8/13/2024 8:18:13 PM (No. 1777599)
They can start by not just cutting off ALL Democrat SCAM handouts to Illegals and their Cronies but demanding all the money back with interest, AND putting the leaders of the NGO's and all others in PRISON!
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Reply 9 - Posted by: earlybird 8/13/2024 8:21:15 PM (No. 1777601)
No more commissions.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: mifla 8/14/2024 4:35:03 AM (No. 1777681)
When Musk took over Twitter, he reduced the workforce by 80%. When asked why he did that, he replied "It turns out that we can run this company just fine with the remaining 20%." Give the man a shot at doing the same thing to our bloated government. There will be lots and lots of deadwood who will scream in protest, but they can learn to code."
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Sully 8/14/2024 5:37:30 AM (No. 1777704)
Do you understand the perverse incentive permeating gvt? My brother was selling business systems to a gvt prospect in DC. His team mentioned cost savings and was nearly thrown out of the building. Gvt Prospect explained that if they saved money their budgets would go down, and that would be a disaster. Whatever else the system does, it cannot save us money, it was explained. Please imagine Elon Musk showing up at that department carrying a kitchen sink.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Strike3 8/14/2024 6:02:04 AM (No. 1777716)
Why exclude the military, #1? The Pentagon Princes are responsible for a large chunk of the waste and their annual budgets don't even list the black budgets that pay for things that the American people would not approve. Our military is the weakest that it has been in decades and infrastructure is crumbling, leaking and being used to promote the woke agenda. The academies push instruction on sexual perversion, white toxicity and have lowered standards to the point that they are no better than most universities. We are $35 trillion in debt and the number is climbing by the minute.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Rumblehog 8/14/2024 8:35:01 AM (No. 1777787)
YES! Just please call it , "Federal ____ Reform" and tell the American people every chance possible that their Federal government is broken, badly broken, is in serious need of repair, etc., and REALLY drive leftists into a howl at the moon, bats**t crazy, nutfest! Use their own Orwellian propaganda language against THEM now.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: NYbob 8/14/2024 9:43:55 AM (No. 1777833)
Who would argue against efficiency and results? EVERY rat politician and quite a few RINOS, plus every one of their moronic voters. The kind of voter who can't even dimly perceive the fact that empty promises before every election are destroying their lives daily, year after year. I would love to see this idea mentioned every day. It will eventually cause the lunatic left to burst into flame.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: padiva 8/14/2024 10:24:14 AM (No. 1777844)
#1 Please add that many of the things done by the federal gov't should be done at the state level. Three cheers for the 10th Amendment!
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Zigrid 8/14/2024 10:50:27 AM (No. 1777865)
Not in favor of another government commission with unlimited power...no matter who runs it...I leave it to President Trump to fire and hire who he needs to do his job...he didn't become a billionaire by not knowing what to do....when he lost in Atlantic City...the fake news laughed and laughed...BUT...who got the last laugh?...he did.....
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Reply 17 - Posted by: mc squared 8/14/2024 12:19:00 PM (No. 1777907)
Like all good intentions, this one would become weaponized after a time. Want to contain government growth and spending? Eliminate all the BS agencies, starting with the FBI..
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Paperpuncher 8/14/2024 5:08:14 PM (No. 1778016)
It is simple. First of all put the military on the border (no one comes in Period) then deport all of the illegals. Then close down the department of education and all other departments that are worthless, cut the budgets on all the bureaucracy except the military. As far as the military goes we have way, way too many generals. Fire about two thirds of them. For all those who lost their overpaid jobs they can start over by getting the jobs that the illegals had.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: pensom2 8/14/2024 8:13:50 PM (No. 1778076)
Ordinarily, I support outsourcing government projects to private enterprise. The catch is that many outsourced contracts in the federal government and corrupt municipalities (think NY, NJ, Chicago for example), are outsourced to family and friendly donors, with kickbacks returning to the leaders who chose the private provider. Remember Obama outsourcing the computer software programming for ObamaCare to Valerie Jarrett's daughter's company in Canada? Half a billion was spent on the project and the software turned out to be useless. The feds cancelled the existing contract and hired someone else to do it, for even more money. Outsourcing is great--until corruption enters in.
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