Sec. Blinken: The U.S. is at the forefront of humanitarian response to the growing crisis in Lebanon, announcing nearly $157 million in assistance today. We are committed to supporting those in need and delivering essential aid to displaced civilians, refugees and the communities hosting them
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🚔 Tone Deaf Democrats 💸
Exactly (and I consider the vendors like the MIC as part of the DS myself).
I've thought about this for several years now and have what I think would be a good solution. If the US actually paid the cabinet, VP, and POTUS salaries like they would get in the civilian world I think it would help with getting good people and stopping corruption.
It would have conditions though... No more foreign aid except for stuff like what our allies did for us when 9/11 happened, or small amounts for things like earthquake or storm relief. Maybe have the public vote on amounts over a certain dollar value. All senior executives with the civilian salary deals would have to be publicly audited to ensure no corruption. Executives that do nothing or are incompetent would be fired just like in the civilian world. They could even get bonuses based on the amounts of money they saved by eliminating bogus programs. The Senate would have to include competency for said position in their advise/consent hearings though.
For that matter it wouldn't bother me if we paid some of them even a billion dollars if it meant we got good people , no corruption, at least 2 years of service, and negligible foreign aid. It would be WAY BETTER than spending trillions each year on everyone but the US. Even if those salaries cost us $100 billion. That would eliminate our deficit and save us over $2T each year from what we are spending now.
Competency yes, DEI hire NO. That's one of the main problems. The left wants stupid, controllable people so the gravy train keeps rolling. They don't want Trump nor would they want any other competent business person.
My solution would first be to eliminate at least 50% of the bureaucracy from every department the first year and hire ex CEO's with track records of success and cost cutting. Then eliminate 5% more workers each year over the 4 year term. Four years later you have 35% of the original workforce consisting mostly of the essential people only. Government is the only place where it takes 8 people to push a piece of paper across the table and another 8 to file it away. Eliminating that kind of waste is big. Then with the people left you give them bonuses for finding ways to making things more efficient and reducing head count even more.
To do that you'd have to outlaw unions for government employees. They're the big problem in that they always want more hires doing less getting paid more. Those days need to end. I'm sure Elon Musk will do well in sniffing out waste fraud and abuse. He'll also know how and what to automate so taxpayers get the best bang for their dollar.