In the midst of the recent revelations about how USAID was spending our tax money, a friend of mine commented that as a U.S. taxpayer that he was really p.o.-ed about the government was wasting his hard earned tax payments. I suspect that most rational people would agree that wasting our hard-earned money is unconscionable, but some on the left appear to be saying that DOGE and Musk should mind their own business! Either they do not pay taxes or they are so overwhelmed with TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) that they are not thinking straight as fraud can never be acceptable.
A today I saw the following on TCN and felt that it was exactly what my friend was alluding to:
You Have a Right to Be Offended
There’s good fun to be had when talking about government waste. Some of the examples are so absurd you can’t help but laugh.
8,000% soap dispenser markups. Ecuadorian drag shows. Russian cat labs. Trans monkeys.
That’s really where Washington sends your hard-earned money. We couldn’t make it up if we tried.
Although somewhat humorous, those kinds of expenditures represent one of the biggest problems plaguing 21st-century Washington: a lack of respect for the American people. No leadership class that actually admires its citizens would allow the government to light their tax dollars on fire like that. It’s like if a child came home from summer camp with a batch of muffins they made during baking class and their parents immediately tossed them in the garbage disposal. No one who loves their kid would do that.
You work diligently for your paycheck. And in economically turbulent times like these, you need every dollar. Uncle Sam yanking chunks of your earnings from your grasp hurts, but it wouldn’t sting so bad if he spent them appropriately. But no. African LGBTQ programs it is, despite America’s lack of adequate healthcare, veterans programs, education, and ability to control its ongoing drug epidemic.
The above comparison to the young muffin man does not paint the full picture. The government’s spending habits equate to that situation but worse. It’s like if the boy came home, his parents disposed of his prideful creation, then turned around and said there would be no dinner tonight. Or tomorrow. If we were him, we’d be pretty offended. And American taxpayers should be too. The public deserves a government that respects it enough to at least try not to set its money ablaze. It seems like Elon Musk is moving in the right direction.
Right on! You go, Elon!
We are all p.o-ed!
2/18/25