Innovation Meets Efficiency in Government Overhaul

What if federal spending could be radically transformed by injecting a dose of innovation and efficiency? Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are setting out to do just that with their audacious Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, as they look to reimagine how government operates. Join us as we unpack their ambitious plans to overhaul federal expenditures and tackle a staggering $6 trillion budget, all while engaging the public in the decision-making process. It's a bold new world of governance, and this episode is your ticket to understanding what that means for our future.

We dive into the eye-opening examples of current government spending that spotlight inefficiencies—from checks being issued to the deceased to funding questionable animal experiments and extravagant political travel expenses. As we explore these intriguing and sometimes shocking expenditures, we'll consider what Musk and Ramaswamy's vision could mean for future accountability and transparency in government operations. Expect a thought-provoking conversation that challenges the status quo and imagines a government that truly works for the people. Don't miss our discussion, where efficiency meets innovation in the quest for smarter governance.

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Speaker 1: 0:19

Hello everybody, welcome back to the podcast. I'm glad you're here. We have three topics for you today on the podcast and we are going to get right to it. Here is where Elon Musk can start cutting federal spending, from transgender monkeys to DEI and checks to dead people. This is from the New York Post. It breaks it down for us, and this is a good start. I understand that Elon and Vivek are also, and this is a good start. I understand that elon and vivek are also going to have a website or something to that nature with polls and what they should start on, what they should cut what, and they're kind of got to involve us, which is kind of weird, I think, and good, but we shall see. I'm still kind of leery of all of this that's happening. It's the most change I've ever seen in a government in my lifetime, so it's all new to me. It's kind of weird. So far, I'm leaning towards liking it, of course, but I also have some apprehension. But anyway, we're going to get on with this article.

Speaker 1: 1:24

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are tasked with cutting down the oh my gosh. And there's a lot of numbers. I don't even know it's six. I don't even know it's a lot Six trillion the federal government spent in 2024. Under their new Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, the group will work outside of the government to dismantle bureaucracy, slash excess regulation good cut wasteful expenditures, yes, and restructure federal agencies. I like that. Restructure, restructure federal agencies. This is all good words. Let's see what they can actually do.

Speaker 1: 2:06

I'm apprehensive about what they can actually do too. This is another thing I'm kind of like okay, there's a lot of big words being talked about by a lot of people and I'm waiting for the action. Now, I know this can't happen until after Inauguration Day, until Trump actually gets in there, so we have a few more weeks before anything can actually get done. Let's see. Finding areas to cut isn't hard. Many jaw-dropping examples are admitted in the government's own reports. Here are some of the first gravy trains expected to be derailed. Dead people cashing in, of course. In 2023, the federal government shipped 1.3 billion in checks to dead people from the IRS, medicare and assorted veterans groups, according to real, clear investigations. Let's see behind bars benefits prisoners thought to still be free and out of work received 171 million in unemployment payments on social security in 2023. Medicaid and medicare is also spending money like they shouldn't.

Speaker 1: 3:19

A russian cat research in 2021, the National Institutes of Health award nearly a half a million dollars to a Russian lab performing experiments on cats, including removing part of their brains and seeing if they could still walk on treadmills. This is horrible. Where is PETA? I don't like cats, but this is terrible. This sounds like a fauci laboratory experiment. Shame, shame, shame. They need to stop that shit right now. This is. I don't understand this. And the national institute of health is that. I guess that's us. Why did they give money to a russian lab? This is strange. I know it's only half a million dollars, but they need to knock it off biden's irish boondoggle.

Speaker 1: 4:12

American taxpayers shelled out four million last year for joe and hunter to go on a trip to ireland. That included 1.2 million on an elaborate sound system and light show fora Biden speech. Do y'all remember when he went to Ireland? I do. Oh my gosh, $50 million. Monkey business. Y'all need to stop with the animal shit, animal experiments. I thought we didn't do that anymore. Spending by the NIH includes $33 million. I know I'm not a PETA person, but come on, spending by the NIH includes $33 million to a firm which runs Monkey Island.

Speaker 1: 4:52

You guys have heard of this. I'm not going to read that. You know what that is and if you want to read it further, you can go find this article on my X-File. All right, still paying for the pandemic? Of course we still have money going out under the guise of covid. The covid pandemic is over, but spending hasn't stopped. Of course not, because once you start that fucking train, you can't stop it. Hopefully, elon and vivek can. You know my husband told me a long time ago, once you start handing out money to people, you really can't take it back. You can't stop it. We shall see. I hope I'm like. I hope they do stop it. I don't care if they do make people mad, stop it. All right, it's over, with FEMA expecting to spend another 70 billion on pandemic by August 2026.

Speaker 1: 5:45

Meanwhile, dr Anthony Fauci has been receiving $15 million worth of security detail this year, despite being retired. Cut that shit off right now. You need to. Somebody needs to throw that man in prison. I don't care how old he is, do it and not, and take and take his security detail away. He doesn't need any more money. No, I'm so fucking pissed off at him. Excuse my language, I know I have been. I didn't mean to go off like this, but the more I read this the more I get mad.

Speaker 1: 6:19

All right, we're going to skip over that. What's next? Drag shows in Ecuador? What? Why are we sending money? What? I know it's not a lot. It's not a lot of money.

Speaker 1: 6:29

The State Department awarded $20,000, $20,600. I know it's not a lot a grant in 2022 to center in ecuador. According to the tracker at usaspendinggov, the grant was used for 12 drag theater performances in a two-minute documentary on fox or fox. News reported why. Why? I know it's only twenty thousand dollars, but still it was a grant. Why these? I mean, this is the kind of little crap you need to stop.

Speaker 1: 7:01

Empty federal bill. Empty federal buildings. Apparently there's a lot of empty buildings. Federal agencies are using, on average, 12 percent of space in their headquarters. According to a March report from the public buildings reform board, the general services administration is spending two billion annually to maintain government-owned offices and five billion to lease the space.

Speaker 1: 7:25

Yes, cut it out. Stop dei rages on. You got dei 38.7 million to oversee dei shit. Stop that right now. Handouts to china needs to stop ar Arming.

Speaker 1: 7:38

The EPA needs to stop. Why? Why does the EPA need to be what? I don't understand. The Environmental Protection Agency shot itself in the foot by spending $620,000 on guns and ammunition, including bulletproof armor, night vision equipment and military military grade weapons, none of which is necessary, according to critics. I guess not. Why why does the environmental protection agency need to be armed up like that? Now, I'm not against, you know people having their guns, but buy them yourself irs tax dodgers. Yeah, it would be interesting and Obscure Research. So there you go. Total waste $386 billion. Just on those that I read to you today. That's just a drop in the bucket. You know that there is a ton more ridiculous spending out there that needs to stop. More ridiculous spending out there that needs to stop.

Speaker 1: 8:38

All right, we need to move on to the next topic. Here we go. Y'all Be careful out there, because I've been hearing a lot of crime from lunatic, mental health unhinged liberals killing people and attacking people just because of the Trump election, just because Trump won. Here's one of them a daughter killed her own father because of this. Oh, wife of prominent trans writer which means it's a guy pretending to be a woman hacked father to death with ice axe after trump's election night victory. Oh my gosh. I'm not going to read this whole thing to you, but we're going to go over it. This is some crazy stuff. A space rocket program manager okay, that's pretty important, that's pretty smart, that's pretty. That's a nice job to have butchered her father with an ice axe on election night after a breakdown following President-elect Trump's victory, and was found smiling and clapping, covered in her loved one's blood.

Speaker 1: 9:51

Cops said considered the bloody rampage in which she allegedly strangled, bit and hacked her 67 year old father in the 800 000 seattle home they shared to be an act of liberation. So um so Burke. The girl is 33 years old and is a training program manager at Blue Origin Jeff Bezos' spacecraft company, according to her LinkedIn, and is married to a prominent transgender writer named Samantha Lee Allen. Public records show Now the Samantha Lee Allen is the guy pretending to be that's her husband, but pretending to be a woman. That is my guess anyway. Allen is the author of the acclaimed book Real Queer American LGBT Stories from Red States and an editor at them, a Condé Nast transgender news publication. Editor at them, a Condé Nast transgender news publication.

Speaker 1: 11:01

Burke told cops that the killing was meant to help people change their attachment to their parents and a had to happen. Today, she told police her face covered in her father's blood, according to court documents. So this unhinged, ridiculous person got upset about the election day results, asked her dad to turn off the lights or something, and he didn't do it. She lost her mind, attacked him and killed him and then blew out all the windows and all this stuff. It is an act of liberation. When the cops arrived, they found burke clapping because she was so happy.

Speaker 1: 11:40

Burke has worked at blue origin for about five years, according to her linkedin page, and lived with her father in a house in south seattle. So she lived with her father. I thought she was married to this guy. What was happening there? Why was she not living with her, with her spouse, with her husband, with the trans person? What was going on with that? But she is definitely not. Well, obviously, and there's a lot of stories out there like that. I bet, if you go look for them and find them they're all over Twitter they may not end in murder, thankfully, but they are certainly attacking people, that is for sure. You can go finish reading that Now.

Speaker 1: 12:15

I want to end with this other story. It's also about elon musk. Donald trump's close relationship with elon musk leaves inner circle feeling iced out. But melania is a fan, uh-oh. What's going on here? I don't know, probably nothing. All right, elon musk's new cozy relationship with donald trump is irking. So what's going on here? I don't know, probably nothing.

Speaker 1: 12:39

All right, elon Musk's new cozy relationship with Donald Trump is irking members of the president's elects inner circle, a source tells page six, though we hear Melania Trump is a fan of the billionaire techie. Well well, musk has been a constant at Mar-a-Lago and has reportedly sat in on calls with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. He also attended a national security meeting and reportedly weighed in on the candidates for administrative positions. A Mar-a-Lago source tells his new bond is making a lot of Trump inner circle feel iced out. Well well, he is always with Elon, says the source. It's 24-7. Trump's inner circle is getting smaller. He has dumped some others in favor of hanging with the SpaceX founder. The insider noted that Trump 78, is also spending time with the co-chair of his transition team, cantor Fitzgerald, ceo Howard Lutnick, but added of Trump, the advisors he used to eat with are nowhere to be seen. Well, maybe that's because they're getting busy to work. Maybe he's finally sent them out to do the actual work. Maybe you think, we're told, even former regulars at Mar-a-Lago are feeling left out.

Speaker 1: 14:04

Another source tells us Trump loves pitting people, even his friends, against each other. I don't know about that. I think that's just your perception. Everyone is jealous of Elon. His close associates are a tad miffed. They have lost their prime seat next to the president-elect.

Speaker 1: 14:21

Well, go to work. How about that? You're not there to just sit around him all day long. Get your ass to work. You know Elon has new people to do that for him, so that's why he can hang out with trump. He has his do people, as jeffy would say. All right, you can go finish reading that, but I just found that interesting.

Speaker 1: 14:41

But apparently melania, uh, definitely likes him hanging out. I'm trying to get to that. I'm trying to get to that part, uh, in the article where it shares that, uh, and I don't see it. I'm trying to get there. Oh, here we go, but away from any sniping. There's at least one person who is enjoying musk musk's presence. Our source tells us that melania trump is a big fan of the tesla boss. Melania likes el, a source tells us, adding it seems like she has been around more. One video clip seen by Page Six shows the soon-to-be first lady beaming at Musk during group meal. How about that? That's funny. They're trying to make something here.

Speaker 1: 15:32

But speaking of Melania, I hear that she is not going to be living at the White House full time like she did before. She is going to be spending her time between New York, where her son Barron is in college, and Palm Beach. I don't blame her at all. She said she will be at White House for certain big, important events, so we are still going to get to see her, which is good, because it has something to do with the news that I want to tell you about. That's happening here on the podcast or there's. Just just hang around with me and you'll hear. You're going to hear more about this new thing that I have started thinking about going to start. We'll see, but hang around with me as I continue to announce more and more next week. All right, gotta go. Will you need the question of the day, don't you? Okay, I have, I have it. What has been the best piece of advice that you have been given? That is the question of the day. Thanks for listening. I'll be back again tomorrow, god willing.