The credit card statement contained an unfamiliar charge. I called the fraud department, which canceled the payment and immediately sent me a new card. If only the federal government responded with similar alacrity.
Instead, the reaction from the exposure and rooting out of fraud — mostly from Democrats — has been shouting profanities and demonstrating outside federal government buildings. Some who have ignored the Constitution for years while using federal judges to impose things voters would not tolerate are suddenly appealing to “constitutional order,” demanding Congress not do any cutting or elimination of fraud and waste. They rarely address the misspending, or who is responsible for it. That would include too many Republicans, as well as Democrats.
Protesters now mock Elon Musk for using technologically gifted young people when they promoted and quoted the climate alarmist teenager Greta Thunberg and her speeches proclaiming doom for the planet if her demands were not immediately addressed. Some appear a lot smarter than the members of Congress denouncing them for their youth.
President Trump has directed every government agency to search for misspent money. The latest, but certainly not the last, comes from the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, who discovered $160 million the Biden administration sent to Canada for electric buses that were never built. Adding to the debacle — the company went bankrupt. Zeldin also canceled a $50 million “environmental justice grant” to an organization that believes “climate justice travels through a free Palestine.” Decoded: the elimination of Israel.
An undercover video shows an EPA official bragging about “throwing billions of dollars of gold bars off the Titanic” after Trump won the election. These “gold bars” are how various government agencies (largely without congressional approval) sustain numerous left-wing groups.