The DOGE will be headed by Elon Musk and V. Ramaswamy.
Does anyone see the foolishness of creating a department of government efficiency with its own bureaucracy and roster of employees for the purpose of shutting down bureaucracies and rosters of employees?
Why haven’t I seen this pilloried in the Babylon Bee?
this is when I wish I had Rand Paul’s ear to see what he privately thinks about it. If anyone should be on any sort of advisory committee for DOGE, it should be Rand.
Sounds like a coin.
Maybe the Ministry of Silly Walks will be next
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Most federal agencies have an office of the inspector general. There are also any number of executive and legislative audit agencies. I don’t see much usefulness of some new efficiency czar except for showy scalp-hunting. On the other hand, anything that disturbs the complacency of the federal bureaucracy has some utility.
Interesting to call him a czar. No one in this country is/has been called that. Trying to tell us something? Ha!
It's not an official title in the US government but is a fairly accurate description of positions responsible for specific tasks. FDR tasked many government insiders to act as the czar of numerous initiatives during WWII and every president afterwards has done the same. I think there were 25 to 30 czars appointed during the Obama administration.Originally Posted by frugal-one
This is definitely not something new.
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
I remember Nixon appointing a Drug Czar when I was a kid. Jerome Jaffe. If I recall, he was the creator of the innovative "war on drugs" strategy of redefining some of the metrics so that you could do an apples-to-oranges comparison and claim victory. Inspired me to become a statistician.
No one in this country has been called that? Are you kidding?
one article that lazy Googling served up to me shows how many special appointments of Presidents over the years have earned the slang name “Czar.” if you just Google it, you will find many instances of White House appointed “CZAR.”
this Time article claims that those special offices are not very effective because they don’t have budget or real authority.
“https://time.com/3516927/history-of-white-house-czars/
The Wikki lists some names popularly referred to as Czar
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...e_branch_czars
Geez, even Kamala Harris was known as Biden’s “Border Czar.”
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Just watch out for Cossacks tovarisch.
So did you know this before googling? I doubt it. I never heard the term before for a US government official. I have never really had much of an interest in politics until the current whack job, president elect. His disgusting �� personality and political agenda has made him impossible to ignore. I am going to miss Biden, if for no other reason, because of his lack of daily chaos. I try to not pay attention but DH continues to fill me in on the stupidity even though he knows it upsets me. I will be happy when buffoon trump is gone… unfortunately it won’t be soon.
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