Today is my regular Wednesday zoom call with the boys and of course we were hooting about last night\u2019s speech.\u00a0 Everyone loved the hilarious jabs at Biden, the endless list of billion-dollar boondoggles cut from USAID and Trump\u2019s droll braggadocio of his list of accomplishments.\u00a0 But I think I had them laughing hardest when I reminded them of the three hundred- and fifty-year-old social security recipient.\u00a0 I thought a couple of them were going to have a stroke or swallow their tongues.\u00a0 I think everyone inherently senses how this absurdity just encapsulates what runaway bureaucracy looks like in its terminal stage.\u00a0 As Trump said, \u201cThis guy is a hundred years older than the country but he\u2019s still on the rolls!\u201d\u00a0 You have to have a kind of primal respect for someone defending a lie that big.\u00a0 It\u2019s epic.<\/p>\n
Now some would rightly point to the much greater financial impact of there being many millions of Americans claiming to be alive after 110, 120, 130 and even 140 years of age.\u00a0 The benefits for millions of people are enormous.\u00a0 They\u2019re in the tens of billions of dollars.\u00a0 They are an outrage and they should be crimes that are rooted out and punished.\u00a0 Even the people just working in the social security department and ignoring the absurdity of these impossible ages should be punished.<\/p>\n
And yet I can\u2019t help but hearken back the Sesquarcentennial Man.\u00a0 So that means he was born in 1675 AD.\u00a0 Isaac Newton and Louis XIV of France were still alive back then.\u00a0 In that year King Philip’s War broke out, as the Wampanoags attacked Swansea, Massachusetts.\u00a0 Maybe Sesquarcentennial Man remembers the trauma of those frightening days.\u00a0 Maybe he still requires medication to deal with the fear.\u00a0 But whatever else we can say about him the most important characteristic he possesses is that we\u2019re still paying for him.\u00a0 And without Elon Musk we probably would continue to pay for him until the US Treasury finally closes its doors and goes out of business.<\/p>\n
So yeah, we got a hoot out of it and thank you Donald Trump for your love of comedy.\u00a0 But the real point is that the federal government is filled with people making six figure salaries while ignoring the apparently endless incompetence and corruption going on all around them with no concern for how it impacts their fellow Americans or the country as a whole.<\/p>\n
Well, I think it just hardens our resolve to see DOGE fire as many of these useless and despicable individuals as is humanly possible.\u00a0 We should want to see the number of federal employees reduced to the bare minimum possible through the use of automation and continuous improvement of the systems and processes needed to perform the critical functions of the government.\u00a0 And by eliminating all non-essential functions of government.\u00a0 No more research studies into fields that the government has no business funding.\u00a0 If anyone has an unquenchable curiosity about the sex lives of any animal (including humans) let him pay for that voyeuristic pursuit out of his own pocket.\u00a0 And likewise for every other pseudoscientific time sink.\u00a0 Fund yourselves.<\/p>\n
But more than anything else, I want to know about Sesquarcentennial Man.\u00a0 Who is (or was) he?\u00a0 How many descendants has he?\u00a0 And most urgently, who\u2019s cashing his social security checks.\u00a0 Elon, can you help us out here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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