STEVE MOORE: Did Elon Musk drain the swamp or drown in it?

There’s an aged adage that particularly applies to Washington, DC that nary bully deed ever goes unpunished. And nary 1 has been much victimized by that truism than Elon Musk.

Musk is arguably 1 of the 10 top entrepreneurs, wealth-creators and visionaries successful satellite history. His businesses from Tesla to SpaceX are worthy implicit a trillion dollars.

His patriotic voyage to Washington to assistance President Trump was intended to identify the waste, inefficiency, fraud and theft that is rampant successful the United States government. Who amended to marque the authorities much productive and little wasteful?

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But from the start, his quest to save wealth for taxpayers was ridiculed and attacked by the media, the imperishable ruling class, and the unaccountable blob successful Washington. He attacked the immense bureaucracy successful the galore agencies of authorities wherever well-paid national employees were taking location $150,000 wage checks oregon more, but not bothering to amusement up for work. He exposed the millions of dollars that were being sent retired to Social Security recipients of much than 120 years old, and the antiquated machine systems successful authorities agencies similar the Air Traffic Control strategy that were installed successful the 1980s.

His squad recovered that the government’s overseas assistance programs similar USAID couldn’t adjacent relationship for what happened to hundreds of millions of dollars arsenic those funds got swallowed up by a syndicate of "nongovernmental organizations."

He spotlighted for each American taxpayers the outrageous and rapacious mode the authorities bureaucrats and contractors successful Washington were serving themselves and not the public. The information that 3 of the 5 wealthiest counties successful the United States are successful and astir Washington, DC spoke volumes to American taxpayers successful faraway places similar Kansas, Maine, and Montana.

In conscionable a fewer months Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), identified $160 cardinal successful savings by terminating wasteful contracts, modernizing IT systems, specified arsenic digitalizing the OPM status process." Just deliberation if helium had had much clip and enactment from the radical who enactment for the government.

He naively believed that helium would beryllium seen arsenic a nationalist hero. Instead, his reward for exposing to the American nationalist that the empire of Washington wears nary apparel was to make a revolt connected the near against Tesla and his different world-class companies. Why the outrage? Because the crooked strategy is truthful endemic and the hundreds of billions of dollars that spell into this racket and marque fraudsters affluent from each the graft person created a self-defense mechanics acold much almighty than helium oregon immoderate of america thought was possible. Putting a muzzle connected a rabid canine is nary casual feat.

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Now Elon is understandably frustrated. He has adjacent done a mea culpa for being "too political." He has concluded that Washington is permanently breached and possibly adjacent unfixable.

After all, if helium and Trump can’t hole our arrogant, obese and breached $7 trillion endeavor successful Washington, who can?

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In 1 of his astir caller societal media posts, Musk concluded that the lone mode to shrink retired indebtedness and Washington’s tumor connected American beingness and civilization is to "grow our backstage economy" astatine warp velocity truthful that, successful comparative terms, Washington becomes little and little consequential - a deadweight nonaccomplishment that we conscionable constitute disconnected each twelvemonth arsenic a outgo of doing business.

He whitethorn beryllium close that economical maturation is the lone mode to hole our nation’s finances. The bully quality is there’s cipher amended to bash that than him.