The Department of Government Efficiency will be known as one of the most important things ever done in government. The amount of money wasted through government employment has been staggering. And it has been so corrosive that it has set the bar entirely too low for the rest of the world, regarding expectations of what a job is supposed to be. When Elon Musk sent emails to government workers asking them to name five things they did last week, many couldn’t. You can see a hint of the waste paid out for very little work. I’ve been screaming about this for years, and people have been interested but very slow to react. Only now that a Trump administration is willing to save money, and making money a theme of their administration, has something like a D.O.G.E. been an option. Then, it would take a unique personality that was good at both digging up the dirt and selling it to the public, which is what Elon Musk is all about. Of course, Trump let Elon Musk speak at his first cabinet meeting, where everyone at the table was excellent in their own right. But for all of them, what Musk was doing with D.O.G.E. was the most important thing because it captured and controlled the narrative. Nobody can defend the worthless nature of the average government worker, and now that so much waste is evident, we can see why many of them vote Democrat in elections: only Democrats are dumb enough to rubber-stamp so much waste and corruption. Just in this first month of D.O.G.E., the numbers have been staggering. For me, this was not surprising, but for many, there was an assumption that government workers were busier than this. And when they can’t even report five things that they did that were useful, you know you could eliminate their positions, save the money, and not ever miss them.
However, we are at a saturation point. At first, the reports were shocking. But there is so much of it that everyday news of the amount of waste is starting to glaze over in the public’s eyes. And I think there needs to be a D.O.G.E. clock, which is the opposite of the well-known Debt Clock that we are all familiar with, that shows the amount of debt America is racking up by the second, minute, hour, and day. We need a D.O.G.E. clock that displays the savings stacked up in the opposite direction. Otherwise, people might forget or grow numb to it. They need to see the big picture, and it should be on a sidebar on the X platform and Truth Social. People need entertainment value in the reporting because the engagement level needs to be high. While D.O.G.E. can’t actually control the amount of money being spent, Congress needs an easy understanding of what is going on to control the purse strings. People need to quickly understand what their representatives need to be doing to control costs. Without a proper context, much of the waste that is being discovered will blend into the background noise. What is needed is a D.O.G.E. clock that is easily referenced so people can see the score of savings as it is discovered and measure the length of the voluminous problem. It’s one thing to shock people, and D.O.G.E. has, but it’s another to create information that substantiates permanent change. Once the shock of something like this wears off, keeping that momentum going is a tough challenge unless people can be fed the information in quantities and formats they can digest quickly.
I was talking to an old friend who was hardly a wild conspiracy theorist or crazy lunatic of political ideology the other day. This friend, Susan Mclaughlin and I were at a political event talking about old times, the early days of the Liberty Township Tea Party where another old friend, Katy Kern had just passed away, and we were reminiscing about her and all the old times when the IRS came after us specifically in 2010 under the Obama administration. And we were pinching ourselves that such a day 15 years later where something like a D.O.G.E. would even be possible. I had been doing what D.O.G.E. is doing now with my blog site, but on a much smaller scale. Now, there was Elon Musk, the wealthiest person in the world, empowered by President Trump to expose government waste on such a massive scale after all he had been through. It was everything we wanted out of the Tea Party all those years ago, and we joked that Katy would have never believed it. In those days, even today, I played the Elon Musk role, and people hated me and wanted to eliminate me. Hearing Elon Musk talk about this issue recently on the Joe Rogan Podcast was interesting because I know what it feels like. However, on a scale such as this, there needs to be a proper narrative because raw data will water down the effectiveness of the information. There must always be a little show business to these things, and D.O.G.E. needs some daily glitter to help sell the story.
But as Susan and I continued to talk, neither of us ever thought there would be a day where all this government cost would be exposed on such a mass scale. It was a dream many of us had but couldn’t see a path to get there. I stepped away from the traditional GOP types several times over the years, and I was hoping through Trump back in 2015 that some of this might have been possible. But what we see ten years later, in 2025, wasn’t on the radar. However, Trump has earned the right to turn someone like Elon Musk into the point person for government waste. And as the wealthiest person on earth who doesn’t care about his social status because he wants to live on Mars anyway, there couldn’t and wouldn’t be a better person who could deliver such a D.O.G.E. message. And that’s what it was going to take. The government had grown too big and too corrupt, and that started with low expectations of what government employment meant. It should be an honor to have a government job, but it had grown into a monstrosity of horrendously wasteful spending where the value of money was thrown entirely out the window. And now we have a mass culture of this kind of thing that has had to be dramatically reduced. However, as this continues in the coming months, people need an easy way to measure the success of D.O.G.E. hour by hour, day by day, and month by month. A D.O.G.E. clock would help people see the value of the savings narrative and drown out the crying voices of government workers who are losing their cushy positions with such low employment expectations. Most government positions must be eliminated, and we will have a better government. Those workers must be in the private sector and learn to compete. To keep everything going, people must watch success easily and measurably. Because regarding the amount of waste there is, we are only scratching the surface.
Rich Hoffman
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