This is a paid article from the Wall Street Journal here, so I'm only reproducing the beginning, but already just the beginning of the column published by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on the DOGE plan to reform the government is worth peanuts !
By following the Supreme Court's guidance, we will reverse a decades-long executive power grab.
Our nation was founded on the fundamental idea that the people we elect run the government. This is not how America works today. Most legal decrees are not laws passed by Congress, but “rules and regulations” promulgated by unelected bureaucrats – tens of thousands of them each year. Most law enforcement decisions and discretionary government spending are made not by the democratically elected president or even his political representatives, but by millions of unelected and unappointed officials in government agencies who consider themselves protected from dismissal thanks to the protections of the civil service.
This measure is undemocratic and contrary to the vision of the Founding Fathers. It imposes considerable direct and indirect costs on taxpayers. Fortunately, we have a historic opportunity to solve this problem. On November 5, voters elected Donald Trump with a mandate for radical change, and they deserve it.
President Trump has asked both of us to lead a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to reduce the size of the federal government. The entrenched and ever-growing bureaucracy represents an existential threat to our republic, and politicians have supported it for too long. That's why we do things differently. We are entrepreneurs, not politicians. We will serve as outside volunteers, not as federal officials or employees. Unlike government commissions or advisory committees, we won't just write reports or cut ribbons. We will reduce costs.
We're helping the Trump transition team identify and recruit a core team of small-scale government crusaders, including some of America's brightest technical and legal minds. This team will work closely with the White House Office of Management and Budget in the new administration. We will both advise DOGE at every stage to pursue three broad types of reforms: regulatory repeals, administrative reductions, and cost savings. In particular, we will seek to achieve change through executive actions based on existing legislation rather than through the adoption of new laws. Our North Star for reform will be the U.S. Constitution, with a focus on two pivotal Supreme Court decisions issued during President Biden's term.
What is happening in the United States is happening even more in Europe and in France
As we don't do things by halves, we do things doubly worse here!
Not only do unelected Europaths decide on totally delusional directives sheltered from any democratic surveillance in the ivory tower of the big Brussels commission.
But as that is not enough, here in France we have our enarques and other civil servants who always have a good reason to wash even whiter than European rules and who add an extra layer of whiteness to us. This is what we call “surtransposition” in French technocratic language.
All these guys who add several ladles a day to us are unelected. They lay down laws, rules, standards and Cerfa without anyone being able to stop them because there is always a good reason. Always.
This is how an over-regulated economy collapses.
Too much regulation is communism and the USSR.
The absence of regulation is the Wild West and the law of the strongest.
Once again, you have understood that the truth is hidden somewhere between these two extremes.
It's a question of balance, of pragmatism. Balance IS courage, we could even say that in our time, balance is THE courage.
Charles SANNAT
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