Mary was the tiniest, most disturbing person I ever knew. Mary was the waiter and business manager for my grandfather while I was in my youth. That person was squash$ 20 expenses out of a pumpkin. If you needed a new Bic brush, she’d say,” Show me your empty”, and you’d duly hand over your aged Bic pen — you’d better have one to turn in — and Mary had light at it until it wrote afterwards. Then she’d side your “empty” Bic back to you with an expression that was half-disappointment/half-scowl.  ,
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That’s the attitide re-President-elect Donald Trump’s fresh government performance expert, Elon Musk, may bring to Washington— and he has one wonderful new idea that got lost among all the election kerfuffle this week.
Bill Whittle made the point that you must first give the current occupants a place to stay before you can break down a home on a Right Angle section that will be released sometime in the next few weeks. That’s the considering behind Musk’s plan for clearing the bushes out of Washington.
Give them to depart, he says.
” We may reduce a lot of government staff, but we’re going to offer very much severances. Musk said in a statement to an audience in Philadelphia a few weeks ago, “like two centuries, or something like that.”
” Appearance, just go do something different is what we’re going to say. And you’ll get paid for two centuries. You still have a lot of time to think about other things. The purpose is n’t to be cruel or forbid people from paying their mortgages or anything else. Simply put, the government sector employs far too many people, who may work abroad for more.
It rankles, does n’t it, the idea of giving a two-year severance to government stiffs?
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But let’s think about this a minute.
VodkaPundit Real Story: One day, I attacked an almost-empty Bic with my Zippo cooler. By the time I was finished using the brush, it had become charred, bubbled, and bent. I then addressed Mary to her office and said I needed a new ink. ” Show me your empty”, she said, and with an evil grin I pulled out my burnt-out Bic and handed it to her. Mary did n’t say a word. She forced a former pen to write again, scowling at its twisted large. For another week, I had to live with that.
Want to stop the Strong State scheming as they did during Trump’s first word from sabotaging and putting off the MAGA agenda? Then generate good habits. And following Musks ‘ executive maxim—” the best part is no component” — the best politician is no politician.
Musk’s perspective is in line with Milton Friedman’s maxim,” The key is to foster a social environment of opinion that may enable the wrong people to do the right thing.”
Or in the case of Musk’s program, professionally rewarding.
My different Right Angle partner, Scott Ott, delicate Musk’s idea. Provide Musk’s buyout to all the bushes in the first year, Scott suggested, followed by compulsory buyouts in the next yr. Third-year reward: you’re fired.
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In most cases, you’ll discover there’s no reason to get a replacement. Yeah, two decades ‘ compensation is a huge expense, but it’s a one-time price. And it eliminates the bushes that would otherwise choke a forest.
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