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Opinion: To get fiscal house in order: No pain, no gain

Photo/Mark Schiefelbein/The Associated Press / Elon Musk departs the White House on Friday, Mar. 21, 2025, in Washington.
Photo/Mark Schiefelbein/The Associated Press / Elon Musk departs the White House on Friday, Mar. 21, 2025, in Washington. Photo/Mark Schiefelbein/The Associated Press / Elon Musk departs the White House on Friday, Mar. 21, 2025, in Washington.

When you have wasted money for years and built entitled agencies accountable to no one for their spending, it will be hard to reverse. We spend $2 trillion a year more than we take in. We are $37 trillion in debt. DOGE must be done.

It will not be easy. Nothing good is. But if you watched the interview of DOGE members with Bret Baier on Fox, you realized that the DOGE members are not 20-year-olds named “Big Balls” in hoodies, as the media have intimated. These are very smart and accomplished patriots who left their companies to come to Washington to clean things up for the country. They have been vilified, but they should be admired.

This reminds me of an old joke. Two farmers are suffering through a severe downturn. One says to the other, “I cannot afford to feed my hound dog anymore. I just do not know what to do.” The second farmer said, “I have the same problem, couldn’t afford to feed my dog in these hard times, so I started feeding him poke salad. It grows wild in the field; it is nutritious and plentiful.” The first farmer says, “I couldn’t do that, my dog would not eat poke salad.” The second farmer said, “You know, mine wouldn’t either the first few days.”

The Democrats are the angriest they have been since the Republicans made them free their slaves. They have no policy ideas; they just hiss at everything Trump does. They are the types who would go out to an airport and boo safe landings.

All the Dems seem to have is anger and keying Teslas. The “Takedown Tesla” Saturday protest was a clown show. Paid protestors danced and burned Teslas in “resistance” to Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts. I would have gone, but my great-great-grandmother’s Social Security check came and I had to go cash it at my liquor store.