DAVID MARCUS: What America owes Elon Musk after DOGE
As Elon Musk prepares to step back from his amenity in the Trump administration the nation owes him a debt of gratitude for current through decades of empty promises about exposing and ending waste fraud and abuse in Washington Musk shared on Tuesday that his time focused on the Department of Regime Efficiency DOGE would drop significantly as he moves to refocus on the businesses and ventures he left behind to serve Trump and the American people As head of the DOGE Musk has definitely done something about out-of-control spending and more importantly he has put systems in place to further and continue this vital work even once he is gone TESLA EARNINGS FALL SHORT ELON MUSK SAYS DOGE TIME WILL 'DROP SIGNIFICANTLY'According to its website DOGE has saved the federal leadership billion dollars thus far or about a thousand bucks per American citizen which is not chump change In fact it is exactly the kind of change our country has long needed Several of these savings came from laughable system errors or basic and obvious redundancies but others such as the firing of probationary employees in a great number of departments were hard choices to cut hard-working people If as Musk believes his big cuts in the size of federal bureaucracy do not upshot in chaos in regime services then it will represent a sea change in how we look at the federal workforce one that could completely place America on a road to fiscal solvency It has been a bumpy ride for the eccentric richest man in the world once a climate-saving liberal darling now arguably as hated as President Donald Trump himself by the far left And while his decision to take on the task of leading the DOGE may not have been entirely selfless attaining power rarely is it has come at real personal and economic cost TEXAS POISED TO CREATE ITS OWN VERSION OF DOGE AS BILL PASSES BOTH CHAMBERSAs far as Musk s bottom line is concerned his system at DOGE has undoubtedly hurt his Tesla electric car company as the vehicles went from symbol of progressive environmental virtue to various kind of supposed Hitler-mobile In fact part of Musk s decision to return to private life is to throw a life jacket to Tesla as well as his other ventures such as SpaceX But financial harm is not what has cut the deepest Elon Musk is a person who likes to be liked He is playful and likes to make jokes With bright wide eyes he invites everyone into his extraordinary mind to explore getting to Mars or saving the planet or the implications of artificial intelligence and low birth rates But now millions absolutely hate him DOGE REVEALS WHAT YOU GET FOR THE HALF MILLION YOU'LL PAY IN TAXES OVER YOUR LIFETIMEAs strange as sympathy for the wealthiest man to ever live might seem no amount of money can purchase respect or a glowing legacy both of which Musk has risked and in the event of liberal opinion sacrificed at least for now Elon Musk has served as a heat shield or lightning rod throughout Trump s tumultuous and historic second first days In fact at the protests I have covered it is Elon not the Donald who is the target of the majority of ire Now the lunatic left will have to find a new society enemy No They won t have Elon Musk to kick around anymore CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONOne must wonder if anybody other than an eccentric outsider with screw you money could possibly have taken aim at so numerous powerful and moneyed interests on the governing body dole without being entirely destroyed Musk is anything but destroyed Now the man on a mission to bring a man to Mars may go back to making science fiction come to life with his self driving cars and vaguely terrifying robots Whether Elon gets to witness that first human footprint stamped onto the Red Planet and into history remains to be seen but limited who have witnessed his furious race to cut regime waste will tend to doubt him So thank you Elon Musk for doing the things that so various disclosed could never be done for challenging the status quo and tightening the belt of a federal executive that had grown obese at the buffet of taxpayer dollars As the head of DOGE just as he is was as an automotive and space innovator and owner of X a bastion of free speech in a deeply censorious social media landscape Musk is challenging us to make our country and our world a better place Meanwhile love him or hate him nobody can wait to see what Elon Musk does next CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM DAVID MARCUS
