Central Management Comes Tumbling Down

Time to Reinstate the Rule of Law

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That we are living in unprecedented times is an understatement. We were warned about Trump’s policies but not his cabinet nominees who have no qualifications or experience but big plans for mass layoffs. It’s as if the government of the most powerful nation in the world has been swapped with something yet to be defined and all the world can do is watch as the global order falls into chaos. Democracy is crumbling from the top down and only actions from the roots up or co-branches of government can save it with Trump is doing his best to marginalize co-branches of government.

Consistent with a thread that runs through this newsletter, the observation that the concentrated wealth sector believes money can be saved and profits increased by not paying workers, the head of the proposed Department of Government Efficiency is saying exactly that:

Elon Musk says he wants ‘super high IQ’ workers for DOGE — but they may not be paid

Not only does Musk expect the workers to work without pay but also to put in an 80-hour work week.

Musk says he will cut two trillion dollars from the federal budget but people will have to suffer hardship. Is eliminating pay for workers how Musk envisions balancing the federal budget? Decrease benefits AND eliminate worker pay?

This is the man who was giving away a million dollars a day to individuals when he was campaigning for Trump. Now he says workers will not be paid in the proposed new department of government that he will head. It is interesting to see Musk honing the philosophy of the hegemony that I have been observing in all institutions of the concentrated wealth sector. Musk advances the concept that workers should be paid as little as possible to workers should not be paid at all. Does he expect workers to work for the thrill of being near him, or for the ego boost of being designated as a special class of people with high IQ? Or more rationally just to have the opportunity to influence the national budget? Is Musk trying to mold the workers into accepting that the cause in which they are to be employed is so noble that they should not ask to be paid for their labor? If that is the case why doesn’t the richest man in the world fund the government agency himself and pay the workers? Unlike him, the workers probably need money, especially when he takes away their benefits.

Why can’t Musk and his assistant Vivek Ramaswamy figure out where to cut the budget themselves? Isn’t that what Trump tapped them to do?

The volunteer workers for the new government agency will be recruited from Musk’s social media venue X for which he paid 44 billion dollars so that it could lose 80% of its worth and be used as a Trump campaign platform. This is whom a serial bankruptcy president chooses to run his ”Department of Efficiency”.

Whether this is an actual; government department or outside consultants is not clear. I am betting on outside consultant groups because Federal commissions are required to hold public hearings. This would be a similar arrangement to the ”study group” made up primarily of members of the developers and real estate community commissioned by the Maine Legislature to write LD 2003, which gave their industry almost everything it wanted, while allowing the private sector legislators to bypass the petition signatures required by the Maine Constitution for a citizen-proposed law. The Maine Legislature has designed many ways for a small elite to bypass requiring public agreement, a practice that has become standard with or without a law to uphold it. It is codified in attitude, if not by law.

Reason Magazine says the cost of Trump’s mass deportation program could reach a trillion dollars and cause all kinds of hardship but Trump says mass deportation doesn’t have a price tag.

And Musk says the workers doing his study will not be paid. You can see Trump and Elon share a common framework in their views of economics. No cost!

What motive lies at the core of this regime? It sounds like the point is to make as many people in the world suffer as much hardship as possible.

Life goes on as we hope that the global enemies of the free world do not rush to take advantage of the chaos and that other parts of government can be effective against the deconstruction taking place at the top.

What’s different about the world today from the way it was before the election? Central management by the federal government of the USA, as we knew it is being pulled out from under the world by enemies from within.

How will The University of Maine and Mill’s new government-owned space industry fare?