America's Great Fiscal Enema

This year (2025), America’s most powerful man (Donald Trump) has teamed up with our most brilliant (Elon Musk) to create and administer our new Department Of Government Efficiency. It’s mission is to perform our greatest economic rescue in history—a massive colorectal cleanup that has been decades overdue. These two heroes are hustling full tilt to cast off our bureaucratic slave chains and plug our treasury’s massive hemmorhage to literally SAVE OUR COUNTRY from financial collapse and impending turmoil. It has already begun to execute its top priorities.

Most people are unaware that at least half (and possibly as much as 90%) of our government is composed of needless departments, agencies, and personnel that WE ARE BETTER OFF WITHOUT. Any doubters can take a quick look at our history—from Woodrow Wilson’s income tax through FDR’s gold heist, reckless spending and government growth, plus the follies of LBJ, Nixon, Carter, Clinton, “Dubya,” Obama, and Biden.

Our top priority is to clean out these dangerous parasites and SAVE our revenue to pay down our skyrocketing debt, which if left unchecked, can bankrupt our country. We must do it in spite of the temporary pain suffered by fired bureaucrats who will no longer be allowed to strangle our economy with abusive mandates and their enforcement. We must crank up our gtigantic chain saw and mow down our overgrown jungle of government parasites.

Older people can remember back in the 1950’s and ‘60’s when the United States was the world’s leader in both agriculture and industry. In proportion to our population, we grew more food and manufactured more products than anybody else. We were blessed with a limited government and minimal restrictions that allowed it to happen.

Since then, government meddlers have imposed regulatory roadblocks that have shut down much of our productivity and allowed China and others to pass us by. Our economy has declined and our trade deficit has mushroomed. Meanwhile, reckless government spending has expanded our national debt to the door of insolvency.

How do we stop it? There is ONE solution: GET BIG GOVERNMENT OUT OF THE WAY. This is how we restore our economy and protect our Constitutional rights. The top priority of the DOGE is to STOP the excess spending, waste, regulation, and bureaucracy that has emasculated our economy for the past six decades (since about 1965). We must follow Javier Milei’s example in Argentina to CLEAN OUT our bureaucratic baggage. Nearly all departments must be drastically downsized. Many must be totally eliminated. Regulations and mandates must be repealed. Milllions of abusive bureaucrats must be fired. With less government and more private enterprise, we can re-gain our former prosperity. We cannot continue to squander our revenue to maintain gangs of criminals “to harass our people and eat out their substance.”

Efficiency can be defined in several ways. In a private farm or factory, there are usually only three:

1. Maximize the output for a given input or cost.

2. Minimize the cost for a given or larger output.

3. Do both.

For government efficiency, different definitions would apply:

1. Do essential actions ONLY.

2. Minimize cost.

3. Minimize taxes.

4. Minimize debt.

5. Minimize regulations, mandates, and penalties.

6. Minimize the overall size of government.

7. Maximize individual liberty.

These are the keys to government AND economic efficiency. Government devastates economies when it grows too big. Today’s government has ALREADY grown FAR too big.

To be efficient, government MUST be SMALL—small enough to GET OUT OF THE WAY AND LEAVE PEOPLE ALONE. Our objective is to make government SMALLER, LESS INTRUSIVE and LESS EXPENSIVE. THAT is how we make our ECONOMY more efficient.

The big problem with government is that we have too many departments and too many people devoted to regulation and/or enforcement. The majority have done more harm than good. For the most part they have grown much faster than the legitimate departments that provide needed services.

A classic example is the Biden regime’s 87,000 new IRS agents. Why did we suddenly need them? What would they be doing? Would they be working to answer phone calls from taxpayers and help them with their paperwork? Or was Biden planning a blitzkrieg to track down every last unreported nickel with Gestapo-like enforcement and impose heavy fines for trivial mistakes? Would you approve of spending millions of dollars to collect a few hundred that might fall through the cracks? Could you tolerate the tremendous abuse agents could wreak to collect these tidbits? Isn’t it much simpler, more productive, and more humane to spend much less and just leave people alone?

We have numerous regulatory agencies that should not even exist. Many of them involve environmental and safety issues. Most of these problems don’t need government. They are mostly self-enforcing. Most of them can be better addressed by the private companies on their own WITHOUT government meddling. If a worker has a problem about safety, he can call his supervisor to fix it INSTEAD of calling a government goon to shut down the entire factory and deprive every person who works there of his job and many thousands of dollars of income. A few examples of these vicious departments are OSHA, EEOC, TSA, FEMA, MSHA, NHTSA (including Musk-hating Missy Cummings), Homeland Security, etc. These and many others must be terminated, or at least, drastically downsized. That is the job for the DOGE.

On Gold Rush on TV, I observed several professional trespassers and meddlers from the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) barge into an Alaskan mine to perform an “inspection” without permission. The workers there had never had any accidents or other safety issues. The agents prowled all over the place and wrote down a dozen or more nitpicky “violations.” They ordered the mine to be immediately shut down and decreed they could not operate again until every one had been corrected to their satisfaction on a future inspection, which would impose several weeks of costly delays. Alaskan gold mine work seasons last only about a half year, when the ground is thawed and sluces can run. Even with a full season, these miners were already on the cusp of barely making a profit or losing their lease. With the shutdown, they were at risk of a forced bankruptcy.

The mine was working fine with no problems before the MSHA came. They had no legitimate business to even be there. They did not help the miners in any way. The MSHA clearly has an economic value far below zero. It should not even exist. We are better off without it.

If the MSHA had been a legitimate agency, it would have left everything and everybody alone, UNLESS the miners called them to address a problem. And even then, their proper duties would have been to HELP the miners, not shut them down. Otherwise, the MSHA should just get out of the way, or better yet, be eliminated.

This is not an isolated case. Numerous businesses have been heavily fined, seriously delayed, shut down, and even bankrupted by various agencies—costing multitudes of Americans their jobs and livelihoods.

We can place government agencies into five categories:

1. The essential

2. The useful

3. The Useless

4. The counter-productive

5. The oppressive

The essential agencies are the ones we absolutely need to keep our nation afloat. There are very few of these. They include national defense to protect our country from foreign aggressors, but NOT military follies to meddle into other nations’ wars and other things that are none of our business. We certainly don’t want to trigger World War III. Switzerland is an example of the type of national defense we should have.

We need a few others to maintain our essential infrastructure (highways, airports, canals, etc.).

Useful agencies would include things like maintaining our national parks and other items that are nice to have but are not absolutely needed. We can keep those, but excesses can be found even here.

The last three categories—3, 4, and 5—should be scrapped. The oppressive ones should be the top priority to shut down. Then the counter-productive, and then the useless.

Eliminating this baggage will save TRILLIONS of dollars. That money can be used to reduce taxes and pay down our debt to a manageable level.

People argue that Trump can’t just shut down an agency by himself—that it requires an act of Congress. That’s true, but he does have Republican majorities in both houses. If too many RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) get in the way, he can at least reduce an agency’s staff to a bare minimum or even just pay everyone to do nothing, except play video games or just sleep. It’s worth it just to neutralize them until the agency can be dissolved.

Many fired federal workers are already screaming about being “thrown under the bus.” Considering the damage they have already done, they deserve it. Most of them have been doing jobs NOBODY should be doing; they have just been abusing people with mandates and needless “enforcement.” Their jobs now are to suck it up and get out of the way. Those who are compelled to have something to do can sit on busy intersections with tin cups in their hands and sing, “We are Non-Essential Personnel.” Transfer them to jobs at our factories and farms so they can become productive. Give them jobs at our Toyota factories building legendary, high in demand HiLux pickup trucks, Champs, and IMV Zeros. We have a factory right here in Alabama where they can get started.

During the first month of his second term, Donald Trump unleashed several “super model” executive orders that included abolishing birthright citizenship for illegal aliens, withdrawal from the WHO, shutting down the corrupt USAID, reaffirming free speech, establishing English as our official language, ending daylight savings time, and declaring an emergency to stop the invasion at our southern border. That is a good start, but a great deal more is needed to finish the recovery.

Trump has already signed the death warrant for Jimmy Carter’s useless Department of Education. Education is the sacrosanct responsibility of parents and families. For government, at any level, it is strictly HANDS OFF—no taxes, no funding, no regulations, no mandates, no meddling, no quotas, and no “political correctness.” Let the free market do its magic.

Countless other departments must also be eliminated.

Donald and Elon must be careful with tariffs, especially tariffs on essential needs like raw materials. We do NOT need to incite a tariff war that could alienate our neighbors. China is already rattling swords in response to the ones we have already passed. Canada and Mexico are also voicing opposition and threats of retaliation.

However, substituting tariffs for income taxes might be a good idea. Filing tax forms and other compliance is a huge headache for nearly everybody. I pray it can work out. Getting rid of the IRS, along with runaway spending, would be a great blessing.

Prior to Woodrow Wilson’s infamous 1913 federal income tax, tariffs were essentially our only source of national income. Tariffs had built-in practical limits on their rates, which limited bureaucrats on the amounts they could collect and squander. This in turn held the growth of government in check. If funding was insufficient, our government had to cut spending instead of raising taxes.

So far, in just a few weeks, beginning with the infamous USAID, the DOGE has already exposed a mountain of squandered money and has begun the largest government cleanout in American history:

USAID – $32.5 Billion

Afghanistan – $697 Million

Pakistan – $136 Million for schools never built

Taliban-controlled areas – $60 Million for women’s “education.”

GSA – Cut in half

CFPB – Operations frozen

EPA – Lost 134 diversity contracts

Education – Programs terminated

Climate Justice Alliance – $50 Million funding scrapped

HUD – $2 Billion in “lost” money

Thousands of dead people drawing Social Security checks

Of every $3 in taxes, $1 is wasted

And mass firings and layoffs have also been implemented:

2000 – Department of Energy

3000 – Forest Service

1300 – CDC

77,000 – Accepting early exit offers

Trump and Musk are now our two greatest national heroes. They have already established a target of $2 TRILLION in spending cuts by July 2026. That’s $6000 back into every American taxpayer’s pocket. That’s a good start, but we must downsize far more to get our reckless spending and huge debt down to a manageable level. Let’s all kneel down to our Lord and pray for his assistance and to keep treasonous rogue judges out of the way.

SOURCES

1. Jeffries, Donald, DOGE, The Epstein List, and World War III, March 6, 2025. https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/03/no_author/doge-the-epstein-list-and-world-war-iii/

2. Epic Real Estate Investing, The 25-Day Government Massacre: DOGE Just Found The Money (FULL BREAKDOWN), You Tube, February, 2025.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyfz4yoxtqI

3. Farzad, Tesla Has Won, And No One Knows, April 2, 2025.

Comment: @eventualreality2964, April 2, 2025.

“Elon is first and foremost a freedom fighter. He is the equivalent of a founding father as it pertains to the passion for a better world. He has in effect “signed” the contemporary version of the Declaration of Independence by supporting free speech and, like the original signers, he has put himself in harm’s way for the greater good. He is a true American hero (think Ben Franklin) whose contributions are global. We love being on this adventure with him.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdgCNMlH3o8&t=6s

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