Why Democrats hate DOGE
Waste and fraud are the currency of WashingtonIf you haven’t watched the Bret Baier interviews on Fox News with Elon Musk and the other executives who have given their time and expertise to exposing the rampant fraud and inefficiency of our federal government, I urge you to do so.
It will infuriate you, and that’s what we need right now. A lot of voter rage is directed at how Washington is routinely misspending our tax dollars with impunity.
What shines through in the interview is that these volunteers at the Department of Government Efficiency are on a patriotic mission to repair our ship of state. They are hunting down the rats and scoundrels who have played us (we, the taxpayers) for fools for so many years. It is the greatest robbery, with more than $1 trillion of fraud and corruption in world history.
Yet too many Democrats are reacting as if Musk himself is the scoundrel. Apparently, we shouldn’t blame the criminal but the detective.
The “Musk-ateers” have uncovered 10 million Social Security recipients older than 120 (how many monthly checks were sent out?) How about $10 billion in rent for empty office buildings? Hundreds of millions of dollars for foreign aid programs went to “nongovernmental government organizations,” and the money then disappeared down a rabbit hole. More than $150 billion in fraudulent Medicaid spending. A federal workforce that has been MIA for three years. Defense contractors charging the federal government twice as much for weapons systems thanks to “cost-plus pricing” schemes.
In the wake of this epic failure of governance, nearly every leading Democrat in Washington has had the exact same scripted response: “We’re all against waste in government but …” This is followed by a soliloquy about how Elon Musk is going to far …” Translation: Democrats and their army of lobbying bosom buddies aren’t against the rampant fraud and corruption at all. If they were, Presidents Biden or Obama would have done at least something about it.
They never lifted a finger. Nor did Republicans all these years. Washington hid behind a curtain of plausible deniability, even though we had scores of auditors and inspector general reports spotlighting the continuing raid on our federal fisc.
