PETER ST ONGE: That means DOGE and Trump are simply enacting the will of the Supreme Court, which the Rogue Biden Administration ignored.

DOGE goes for the Death Star

Elon and Vivek just laid out their plan to effectively nullify the administrative state, its army of bureaucrats, and its trillions of waste. pic.twitter.com/8MntiNHJgy

— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) November 26, 2024

The Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, is going straight for the jugular for the exhaust ports on the Death Star. Last week, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy co-wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal laying out their strategy for radically shrinking the federal government, the unelected occupying Army that Lords over our Fair Republic.  Beyond auditing the $500 billion in pure waste and fraud, there are two key parts.  First is two recent Supreme Court decisions that invalidated nearly the entire administrative state because it was not, in fact, passed by Congress, who is supposed to write all the laws not just the fun ones.  The second is the long-established precedent that the president can get rid of government workers who are not needed, a so-called "reduction in force."  Put them together and you get a beautiful three-step process: first, get rid of the unconstitutional regulation that renders the bureaucrats redundant so assess minimum Staffing needs and force reduce away then the leftover money reverts to Treasury to cancel out the leftover deficit, or dare we dream pay down debt if greedy Congress things can keep their paws to themselves.  I covered in a recent video how the Loper-Bright decision alone renders nearly every single Federal Regulation unconstitutional since just 50 of the tens of thousands of rules passed per year are actually authorized by Congress despite having the force of law.  The other 99% are unconstitutional.  That means DOGE and Trump are simply enacting the will of the Supreme Court, which the Rogue Biden Administration ignored.  So concretely how will this play out?  So DOGE will present Trump a list of regulations that overstep Congressional authority, meaning ones that involve major policy decisions without explicit Congressional authorization.  Trump can then instantly pause enforcement effectively nullifying the rule and then do a full review for formal rescission, getting rid of the rule, at which point if Congress really wants the rules, they are free to pass them in a law which they will not do for the same reason they never passed [it] in the first place.  So nullifying thousands of rules would Rocket Fuel the economy but it would also automatically render tens of thousands of bureaucrats redundant.  Trump being a good steward of the Treasury can then fire them, and given the federal workers earn six figures with gold-plated benefits twice the tax-paying plebs, that alone returns billions to taxpayers.  But that is just the beginning because the problem isn't the salaries; the problem is the regulations themselves and the control it gives.

So I've covered how regulations massively increase the cost of everything you buy.  To illustrate, Biden was proposing rules that would increase the cost of a washing machine by $200, a furnace by $500, an air conditioner by $1,000.  They've been piling this crap on for 40 years.  One study estimated regulations add $10,000 to the price of a car.  Gets worse.  A study by the National Association of Manufacturers estimated regulations add $30,000 to the cost of hiring a manufacturing worker.  They add $50,000 a year for small manufacturers.  So not only does that mean little guys cannot compete, it drives all of them to China.  All of that gone with the swipe of a pen.  

Historically waste and fraud efforts get bogged down in the details and end up cutting a few embarrassing programs and then they peter out.  This time looks very different.  Elon and Vivek have correctly identified the thermal exhaust ports of the Death Star and they are going in.

CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS: "I wanna make it clear: Elon Musk is a defense contractor. Elon Musk is a defense contractor who's building the most significant surveillance satellite system ever created, for the military. Funded by our taxpayers."

"I wanna make it clear: Elon Musk is a defense contractor. Elon Musk is a defense contractor who's building the most significant surveillance satellite system ever created, for the military. Funded by our taxpayers."

In this clip from a recent interview with Shannon Joy… pic.twitter.com/wRg77NfKyL

— Sense Receptor (@SenseReceptor) November 17, 2024

"I wanna make it clear: Elon Musk is a defense contractor. Elon Musk is a defense contractor who's building the most significant surveillance satellite system ever created, for the military. Funded by our taxpayers." In this clip from a recent interview with Shannon Joy (@ShannonJoyRadio), investment banker, former HUD official, and founder of the Solari Report (@solari_the) Catherine Austin Fitts describes how Elon Musk is "a defense contractor who's building the most significant surveillance satellite system ever created, for the military." In the context of DOGE (@DOGE), the newly formed Department of Government Efficient—which isn't actually a federal department at all—Fitts notes that there is a danger with privatizing functions normally handled by civil servants due to issues like lack of transparency.

"I wanna make it clear: Elon Musk is a defense contractor," Fitts says. "Elon Musk is a defense contractor who's building the most significant surveillance satellite system ever created, for the military. Funded with our taxpayers. So he is a contractor." The former HUD official notes that during her time working for the George Bush administration, she "spent months warring with defense contractors to get the basic data [she] needed to move the [the single-family mortgage insurance fund] operation into compliance with the law." Fitts adds that she was ultimately fired "because they wanted to keep the data secret." Fitts goes on to say: "Essentially, the way you have been able to run the government such that you need $23 trillion of bailouts and $21 trillion of undocumentable adjustments, the way you've been able to do that is because you've been able to keep operations secret behind private corporations, private banks, and private defense contractors...and the more you outsource and allow them to run things secretly on a non-transparent, non-disclosed basis protected from FOIA, the worse it gets." Fitts goes on to ask a rhetorical question that highlights the pitfalls of privatizing government functions: "If you fire the government employees who do the bidding of Congress and the executive branch and you bring in private big tech contractors who finish consolidating the [financial] coup d'etat [consisting of tens of trillions of dollars stolen by the DOD, et al.] and are loyal to the central banks, what do you think is going to happen?"

--------------Partial transcription of clip---------------- "I wanna make it clear: Elon Musk is a defense contractor. Elon Musk is a defense contractor who's building the most significant surveillance satellite system ever created for the military. Funded with our taxpayers. So he is a contractor." "When I became Assistant Secretary of Housing, under the law, I was required to run the single-family mortgage insurance fund on a self-supporting basis. To figure out whether or not I was in compliance, I had to spend three months lobbying the White House to get the accounts moved over to report to me so I could even understand how much we were making or losing and whether or not I was in compliance. To get in compliance, it turned out we were losing $11 million dollars a day, which was technically, you know, not in compliance with the law. To figure out how to get in compliance, I needed data, except that data was controlled by a private defense contractor who refused to give it to me. "And I spent months warring with defense contractors to get the basic data I needed to move the operation into compliance with the law. And finally, I basically got fired because they wanted to keep the data secret. But essentially, the way you have been able to run, you know, the government such that you need $23 trillion of bailouts and $21 trillion of undocumentable adjustments, the way you've been able to do that is because you've been able to keep operations secret behind private corporations, private banks, and private defense contractors, okay? And the more you outsource and allow them to run things secretly on a non-transparent, non-disclosed basis protected from FOIA, the worse it gets. "So we have two people running government. We have private banks, corporations, and defense contractors. And we have government employees, civil service. Now the civil service, by and large, you know, and there's corruption and everything. So I don't wanna say they're perfect. But by and large, they do what they are given written orders to do. So Congress passes a law, and the executive branch implements that law, the presidential appointees, and they go tell the government employees do 1, 2, 3. And the government employees do 1, 2, 3. Okay. If they give it to a private contractor, maybe they do 1, 2, 3. Maybe they do something else, but they get a big markup on it. So, you know, there's a whole money game going on there. "If you want, if you want the government employees to do something different, you change the written orders. Right? You don't fire them for doing what they got written orders to do. You just change the written orders. It's pretty simple. Now let's say we don't like civil service. We're gonna fire all the civil service, and instead, we're gonna bring in big tech companies to run everything. Right? In 2012, when the new government came into Greece, they discovered they couldn't control their tax receipts because their tax receipts were collected by corporate contractors who were loyal to the central bank. Okay? So if you fire the government employees who do the bidding of Congress and the executive branch and you bring in private big tech contractors who finish consolidating the coup d'etat and are loyal to the central banks, what do you think is going to happen?"

MARTIN ARMSTRONG: Trump has appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

Thank you to Martin Armstrong's "Kennedy Exposes the Swamp: Vivek and Musk Appointed to DOGE" which you can find at Armstrong Economics.

@robertfkennedyjrofficial

I've spent 40 years suing our government agencies. I understand the perverse incentives that put agency capture on steroids. I know how the system is supposed to work to protect the public interest and I will fix it. 🇺🇸

♬ original sound - Robert F. Kennedy Jr

DOGE, while an internet meme, also refers to the Department of Government Efficiency., announced on November 12, 2024, but yet to be established.  So Trump and Musk seem to be using this more as a meme, a political optic to give Trump's second administration a more efficient mandate.  

Government corruption is not isolated to Washington. The media, academics, lobbyists, think tanks, pharmaceutical companies, big tech, and perhaps every organization with ties to federal agencies compromises the corrupt system. It is finally time to drain the swamp. 

I often speak on how bankers simply never serve time in prison because they hire the people from the agencies who are supposed to regulate them. Goldman Sachs, for example, may pay a fine but they never send their own to jail. Any fee paid is never even close to the money they actually made, rather, it is just a pay-off. We see the same system throughout every organization or university that government has tarnished. They have become above the law. 

A study entitled, “Lobbyists into Government” (Benjamin C. K. Egerod and Joshua McCrain (2023)) examines what occurs when a lobbyist transitions into a role in government. Lobbyists are trained to influence and persuade government officials to act on behalf of their corporation. Lobbying firms often hire men and women with prior government experience to gain access to their connections. There are no laws preventing these individuals from entering the government, as both sides of the aisle are drenched in corruption. It has become one giant revolving door. As they say, “It’s one big club and you’re not in it.”

Anthony Fauci acted as the director of the National Institutes of Health while also acting as a top funder of bioweapon research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Stephen Hahn once served as the FDA commissioner in charge of regulating Moderna, one of the pioneers of the COVID-19 vaccine, and then Hahn went on to work directly for Moderna. Scott Gottlieb played the same move with the FDA and Pfizer, as did Mark McClellan with the FDA and Johnson & Johnson.   

 

 

Kennedy said that the new government would listen to whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, who had been forced into hiding for speaking out against blatant corruption.  Countless individuals have risked their freedom and lives to raise the alarm on the magnitude of government corruption. They have been demonized by the media as conspiracy theorists or even domestic terrorists. 

The swamp has expanded to every corner of the US. Universities and think tanks produce studies to align with their funders’ political interests. We must starve these corrupt actors of government funds. Then, the new administration must examine how extensively this corruption damaged American lives. We allowed bad actors like Fauci to sell us on the idea of a never-ending pandemic blamed on Chinese peasants at a wet market when he was actively funding gain-of-function research. Kennedy, in particular, has a bone to pick with Fauci. 

The Biden Administration focused on multiplying the public sector and expanding government oversight. Trump has appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). “Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies — essential to the ‘Save America’ Movement,” Mr Trump added. 

Elon Musk said he looks forward to draining the swamp in Washington. “All actions of the Department of Government Efficiency will be posted online for maximum transparency. Anytime the public thinks we are cutting something important or not cutting something wasteful, just let us know! We will also have a leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars. This will be both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining,” he posted on X. Vivek posted that they “will not go gently” on corrupt officials. 

In addition to damaging American society and aiding in the demise of our very civilization, this corruption is extremely expensive. Trump noted: “Importantly, we will drive out the massive waste and fraud which exists throughout our annual $6.5 Trillion dollars of Government Spending. They will work together to liberate our economy, and make the U.S. Government accountable to ‘WE THE PEOPLE.'” 

This is one of the main reasons why they attempted to assassinate Trump. The politicians crying that Trump will have them imprisoned know they were acting with ill intent. Our public servants must serve America and American interests. Our food, medicine, education, and every area of life must be free of exploitative practices that only benefit the establishment.  IT IS TIME TO DRAIN THE SWAMP.