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'Listen To The Speeches Of Clinton And Gore In The 90s...': Musk Points To Past Dems To Defend DOGE
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8 months ago
At his town hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Sunday night, Elon Musk pointed to Democrats' government efficiency goals in the 1990s to defend DOGE.
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First, I would like to apologize on behalf of America for the idiots you have to deal
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with for what you're doing for us to improve our country.
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Second of all, my question is, what is your opinion on the Federal Reserve and do you
00:15
have any intentions of doing anything with that?
00:18
And the Fed!
00:19
Yeah.
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I don't know, I always wanted to say that, you know.
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I mean, I think there's like 20,000 people that work at the Fed, it seems pretty high.
00:33
In fact, there's a lot of people that work at the Fed and it seems like, why do we have
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so many people at the Fed and what do they do?
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And you know, sometimes I wonder which one would win, you know, the Federal, for interest
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rates, the Board of the Federal Reserve or a Magic 8-Ball?
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And I'm like, I think the Magic 8-Ball might win, you know.
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So then I'm like, well, the Magic 8-Ball is a lot cheaper.
01:02
So, you know, it's like you shake it, it says, check back again later, I'm like, okay.
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Same thing.
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But I think we, what really matters is that government spending is not far in excess of
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government revenue.
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That's a fundamental issue that we have, where we have a deficit of $2 trillion and we have
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interest payments that now exceed the entire budget of the military.
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In fact, that was a big wake-up call for me, was when the amount of money that we're paying
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national debt interest exceeded the Defense Department budget.
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I'm like, the Defense Department budget is very big and interest is higher than that
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and climbing.
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That's a disaster.
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You know, so the very simple, straightforward goal of the DOJ team is to get rid of waste
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and forward.
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It's mostly waste.
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It's, or depending on how, you know, I'd say it's probably 80% waste, 20% forward, something
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like that.
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But it's a trillion dollars, so that's still a lot.
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And it's, you know, it's got to, you know, it's got to be...
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We got another sore sleeper agent there?
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USA!
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USA!
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USA!
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USA!
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So, I mean, to be clear, the very simple thing we're doing, and we post everything publicly
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on the DOJ website, which is, it's just a look at every expense and say, is this actually
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a good use of your taxpayer dollars?
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That's it.
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It's not, it's not super complicated.
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And the thing that's pretty wild, this is why I like, I say, like, you know, I used
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to be a Democrat, like, and so like, and if you listen to the speeches of Clinton and
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Gore in the 90s, when they were going on about reducing waste and fraud, it literally,
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you wouldn't be able to tell the difference of, like, who said it, DOJ or Clinton-Gore.
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You can't even tell the difference.
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It sounds exactly the same.
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It's wild.
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So we're really just trying to restore common sense to government and say, like, let's not
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waste your money, and let's make sure it's spent well.
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And that's it.
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In trying to save a trillion dollars of expenditures, what we're saying is, of the seven trillion
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in government spending, let's try to see, let's see if we can make it 15%, 1.5% more
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efficient.
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And I'm confident that we can.
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That's actually not a huge bar, by the way.
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So, and when you see the, when you see the crazy things that the government is spending
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money on, you can see a list of some of them, you know, like, I don't know if we should
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be spending money on transgender comic books in Peru.
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That doesn't seem like an ideal thing to spend your money on, you know?
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Why would we do that?
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If somebody in Peru wants to do that of their own accord, that's fine, but it shouldn't
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be your money that does it.
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So it's just, and, you know, we shouldn't be paying rent on empty buildings, and, you
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know, if people, if, I do think there is a role for government, but we just need to make,
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we're just going to, we're just going through and saying, and doing what I would call, like,
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an excellent and necessary and reasonably trusted review of organizations and personnel.
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So is this person doing a good job?
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Great.
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Is the role necessary?
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If so, that's good.
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And are they reasonably trusted, meaning they're not a psycho?
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Like we're not talking about, like, political affiliation, just that they're not crazy.
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So, you know, how much wrong with that?
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I'm like, sounds super normal to me.
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So that's it.
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