Imagine this Elon Musk's is injecting accountability into the government sector. Musk's recent email mandating federal employees submit weekly summaries of their accomplishments has ignited a firestorm of responses. Are we witnessing a much-needed overhaul of government efficiency or the dawn of chaos? Why is the Left pushing back on efficiency? Why is the Liberal Media not promoting productivity? Why are the Democrats not standing shoulder to shoulder with Republicans to generate savings for Americans?
00:00:14.990 --> 00:00:26.257 you know, when we talk about elon musk, we think of charging things, innovation, rockets.
00:00:26.257 --> 00:00:42.232 We think of Tesla, the answer to the liberal left's environmental quest, but we don't think of Elon Musk being an efficiency expert.
00:00:42.232 --> 00:00:49.021 Being an efficiency expert.
00:00:49.021 --> 00:01:02.613 In February this month, as we all know, elon Musk, leading the president's Department of Government Efficiency aka Dodge definitely not a Dodge car issued an email to all federal employees mandating that they provide a summary of their week's accomplishments.
00:01:02.613 --> 00:01:13.469 This directive states failure to respond will be considered as a resignation, kind of like a negative consent kind of email.
00:01:13.469 --> 00:01:23.512 This unpresented move led to widespread anxiety, confusion and resistance from the left.
00:01:23.512 --> 00:01:38.054 Several departments, including the FBI, state Department and Department of Defense, department of Health and Human Services, advised their employees to ignore this legislative, legally ordered directive.
00:01:38.054 --> 00:01:40.605 Why was it legislative?
00:01:40.605 --> 00:01:46.212 By order of the United States President requested Elon Musk to send this out.
00:01:46.212 --> 00:01:53.274 The Office of Personnel, opm, clarified that responding to Musk's email was purely voluntary.
00:01:53.274 --> 00:02:07.471 Despite this directive, it faced signals of pushback from lawmakers, government watchdog agencies and over 100 Democrats urged the agency to ignore that.
00:02:07.471 --> 00:02:08.634 You were not obligated.
00:02:10.200 --> 00:02:18.633 This controversy has been running on the daily news like it's unheard of.
00:02:18.633 --> 00:02:22.062 In fact, david, it's mind-boggling.
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00:02:54.120 --> 00:03:07.193 So, david, I stole the thunder of the idea as I ranted in the beginning here, but I really got to tell you I've managed people.
00:03:07.193 --> 00:03:08.705 I've been managed by people.
00:03:08.705 --> 00:03:30.399 I've read every management book that probably made any sense, from Carnegie all the way down Yep, working out of a major financial Wall Street firm and being forced to write business plans on a quarterly basis and update them and supply them to management.
00:03:30.399 --> 00:03:52.133 Progress reports due pretty much every week and business day recaps notes of what I've done with clients on a day-to-day, hour-by-hour basis is just common practice in the world of professionalism, but that isn't what the left want you to believe is considered normal.
00:03:52.133 --> 00:04:06.539 Maybe it's because so many of the cronies are squirreling away money in departments and employee positions that are just not worth the taxpayers' dollars.
00:04:06.920 --> 00:04:10.586 Now, elon Musk is a businessman.
00:04:10.586 --> 00:04:20.127 He is very much a charitable person, very giving, unlike the Democrat politicians.
00:04:20.127 --> 00:04:28.480 Dollar for dollar percentage of wealth, dollar for dollar percentage of wealth.
00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:30.685 They don't give a dime like elon musk does, nor do they give a crap about the us taxpayer.
00:04:30.685 --> 00:04:35.653 You know there there was a movie that had a couple of things.
00:04:35.653 --> 00:04:46.834 It wasa mockingbird and it talked about or the movie and the books were about a group of civilization elites that survived the nuclear war.
00:04:46.834 --> 00:04:56.973 It sounds like the Democrats are trying to go down under in a Mad Max environment.
00:04:56.973 --> 00:04:57.355 David.
00:05:00.781 --> 00:05:02.502 No, no, I'll tell you something.
00:05:02.502 --> 00:05:05.565 I'm going to ask a very, very simple question to everybody here.
00:05:05.565 --> 00:05:14.593 Okay, you run a business and you find you know, actually forget about the business.
00:05:14.593 --> 00:05:16.035 You have a family.
00:05:16.035 --> 00:05:31.682 You have a spouse, partner, whatever the left will allow me to call it nowadays, whatever the left will allow me to call it nowadays you have a, you have children, and what is the one question you ask at the dinner table, stuart?
00:05:31.682 --> 00:05:31.803 What?
00:05:31.824 --> 00:05:32.184 did you do?
00:05:32.204 --> 00:05:32.425 today.
00:05:32.425 --> 00:05:34.026 What did you do today?
00:05:34.026 --> 00:05:44.357 And if you sat at the table and the kids let's use the expression dodged the question?
00:05:44.357 --> 00:05:45.507 They were like they're skittish.
00:05:45.507 --> 00:05:47.341 They they're wondering what would you do as a parent?
00:05:47.341 --> 00:05:48.949 You'll be sitting there going.
00:05:48.949 --> 00:05:50.153 What are you hiding?
00:05:50.153 --> 00:05:54.427 Why aren't you sharing that?
00:05:54.488 --> 00:05:57.778 To me is what is going on right now, and it's a simple thing.
00:05:57.778 --> 00:05:59.985 Now let me take it to a more complex level.
00:05:59.985 --> 00:06:04.899 If I'm a publicly traded company, it doesn't matter whom.
00:06:04.899 --> 00:06:06.899 Who am I responsible to, stuart?
00:06:06.899 --> 00:06:24.290 Shareholders, shareholders Not only the shareholders all stakeholders shareholders, employees, customers everybody in one of those three categories have a right to ask a question about your efficiency, how you're spending the money.
00:06:24.290 --> 00:06:27.682 People have the right to ask the question.
00:06:27.682 --> 00:06:32.014 Shareholders, as you said, every quarter or so get a report.
00:06:33.536 --> 00:06:43.370 And when there is a stinky situation, as we have seen in many different venues what happens?
00:06:43.370 --> 00:06:50.826 Boards fire CEOs, boards are forced to resign because of mismanagement.
00:06:50.826 --> 00:06:56.427 The only area where this doesn't happen is in the public sector.
00:06:56.427 --> 00:06:58.999 Schools can be mismanaged.
00:06:58.999 --> 00:07:10.375 Healthcare can be mismanaged because it's all run by the government and the government has decided that mismanagement is a word you take out of the dictionary.
00:07:10.375 --> 00:07:16.689 It's irrelevant and it's even worse, stuart and I told you this in the green room.
00:07:17.894 --> 00:07:23.915 I watched a CNN debate the other day about this and the only thing they could focus on was that hey, guess what People can lie on the email?
00:07:23.915 --> 00:07:24.536 People can ignore the email.
00:07:24.536 --> 00:07:24.716 Was that?
00:07:24.716 --> 00:07:26.697 Hey, guess what People can lie on the email?
00:07:26.697 --> 00:07:28.577 People can ignore the email.
00:07:28.577 --> 00:07:45.209 Basically, what they were proud of, stuart, was that the United States can remain unproductive, that it's irrelevant to answer your boss, that it's irrelevant that there is excuse the expression a hierarchy.
00:07:45.209 --> 00:07:47.509 I know people like a flat hierarchy.
00:07:47.509 --> 00:07:51.773 People want to see this way, but the reality is, when you work in the government, it's got to be this way.
00:07:51.773 --> 00:07:59.055 But no, no, no.
00:07:59.055 --> 00:08:03.918 If a governor can defy the president and if a senator can defy the president, a lowly employee in Washington DC can also do that, stuart.
00:08:04.459 --> 00:08:19.050 People in Washington DC, stuart, people in Washington DC, need diapers today because, unfortunately for them, they're losing their job and for the first time in God knows how long, washington DC has an employment problem.
00:08:19.050 --> 00:08:22.711 There are too many employees looking for new jobs.
00:08:22.711 --> 00:08:27.180 Now my niece and my nephew live in Washington DC.
00:08:27.180 --> 00:08:28.367 They work in the area and they're both.
00:08:28.367 --> 00:08:35.620 One is involved in the public sector and he told me mass panic, and the mass panic is over.
00:08:35.620 --> 00:08:47.164 I thought that I had a job, and when you see all the whining and crying on social media and they've interviewed people, it's amazing.
00:08:47.164 --> 00:08:58.284 And one of the comments I I give a credit this was the one comment on cnn I thought was the funniest the employee did not have time to answer the email, but had time to go on cnn to be interviewed.
00:08:58.284 --> 00:09:06.224 And so the question becomes what have we acknowledged as priority in our world today?
00:09:06.224 --> 00:09:14.205 Now I'm in Canada and I have to tell you that they showed a productivity index has gone down in nine years under this administration.
00:09:14.785 --> 00:09:15.788 The United States.
00:09:15.788 --> 00:09:19.640 It's been a mess.
00:09:19.640 --> 00:09:21.703 And I want to tell you, stuart, something.
00:09:21.703 --> 00:09:29.363 I love it when the left says, yeah, I agree, but the way it's done is wrong.
00:09:29.363 --> 00:09:31.025 Hold on a second.
00:09:31.025 --> 00:09:32.616 Let's start with the first part.
00:09:32.616 --> 00:09:33.818 Do you agree?
00:09:34.801 --> 00:09:38.428 12 of the last 16 years has been a Democrat administration.
00:09:38.428 --> 00:09:40.980 You didn't even take a look at one cut.
00:09:40.980 --> 00:09:50.344 You didn't look at anything to cut and, if I go back, even to the Republicans, under the Bush administration and under other administrations, no one was really looking to cut.
00:09:50.344 --> 00:09:52.206 A lot of talk, no one did it.
00:09:52.206 --> 00:09:53.629 Both sides were guilty.
00:09:53.629 --> 00:10:04.068 You want to see something that would change the paradigm, stuart, if the Democrats went to the Republicans and said let's do this in a bipartisan way.
00:10:04.068 --> 00:10:10.979 Let's show the American people that we're working together collectively for the embeddement of the United States.
00:10:10.979 --> 00:10:33.504 Instead, you have Chuck Schumer and Maxine Waters and your favorite senator from Massachusetts standing in front of different departments and screaming and yelling about Doge and Elon Musk, but they're ignoring the fact that average everyday people cannot afford things.
00:10:33.504 --> 00:10:49.643 Stuart, could you imagine, instead of printing new money which is what the previous administration did, which caused redonkulous inflation imagine if you got a real check, because there was money in the US Treasury to be able to send back to people.
00:10:50.216 --> 00:10:51.802 No, david, I'm going to cut you off.
00:10:51.802 --> 00:10:53.179 You know what I think this is.
00:10:53.179 --> 00:11:04.870 It is not only a lack of common sense, it shows the intellect divide between a modern Democrat and a former Kennedy Democrat.
00:11:04.870 --> 00:11:12.503 And I'm going to pay a compliment to Bill Clinton, who laid off 400,000 jobs from the federal workforce in his first term of office.
00:11:12.503 --> 00:11:21.154 And I would like to remind all those Democrats out there that these policies and this concept has existed long before Bill Clinton.
00:11:21.154 --> 00:11:41.066 In fact, I think every president since Nixon, maybe before Nixon, have said that they're going to rig the office of fraud and waste Bill Clinton, actually the only president in the modern era who actually attempted to do this and put his money where his mouth is with this.
00:11:41.066 --> 00:11:44.289 You know massive layoffs that he did in DC.
00:11:44.289 --> 00:11:46.581 Dc has gotten too fat.
00:11:46.581 --> 00:11:49.682 It's pork, it's a lipstick with a pig with lipstick.
00:11:50.364 --> 00:11:55.267 And the Democrats are trying to protect themselves because they don't want to work themselves.
00:11:55.267 --> 00:12:04.384 They like having all these staffers, all these departments of answering questions, so they themselves can go to parties, be elitist and not have to work.
00:12:04.384 --> 00:12:15.192 You know, I got to tell you it was warm and refreshing to see little Marco Rubio traveling the world, covering every single continent with every single conflict in the last week.
00:12:15.192 --> 00:12:20.527 His predecessor didn't make it out of the United States for about six months.
00:12:20.527 --> 00:12:34.977 You know, in this world there are two types of people those that want to find the truth and read a transcript and those that want to listen to editorial nonsense, like the View, like CNN, like MSN DNC.
00:12:34.977 --> 00:12:46.746 You know there is a lot to be said by having two sides of a story, but in this case their side is just a story, fiction tales.
00:12:47.615 --> 00:13:02.476 Like I started the rant, david, like I told you, in every major profession in the world, including your doctor, who's going to tell you your tonsils look good, make you cough and reach down below where you don't want them to go.
00:13:02.476 --> 00:13:08.048 And I'm telling you, david, the nonsense that little Debbie Wasserman.
00:13:08.048 --> 00:13:12.802 You know the Nancy Pelosi's little Chucky, little Chucky.
00:13:12.802 --> 00:13:16.296 You know these guys are dinosaurs and done.
00:13:16.296 --> 00:13:27.505 You know the majority of Americans want to know where their taxpayer dollars are going and those that don't pay taxes are the ones seeming to be why bother?
00:13:27.505 --> 00:13:36.216 And I think that shows you 85 percent of the population that has to pay taxes and the 15 percent that just don't care because they're not paying it.
00:13:36.216 --> 00:13:38.240 And that's the divide in America today.
00:13:40.004 --> 00:14:04.082 Stuart, I'll wrap it up with this If you told me tomorrow I could lower your taxes, if you told me tomorrow that I can spend more, if you told me tomorrow that my country will be productive to the point that the services literally offered by the government will be better, I'll sign on.
00:14:04.082 --> 00:14:09.864 But the way that the left has been wanting to get it done has been by.
00:14:09.864 --> 00:14:14.701 Don't look under the covers, don't look into what we do.
00:14:14.701 --> 00:14:17.340 We are right, you are wrong.
00:14:17.340 --> 00:14:19.019 You have no right.
00:14:19.019 --> 00:14:20.822 That is insanity.
00:14:20.822 --> 00:14:25.158 And I go back to the dining room table, your kitchen table.
00:14:25.158 --> 00:14:30.816 If your kids answered you none of your business as to the question, what did you do today?
00:14:30.816 --> 00:14:33.422 What would be your reaction as a parent, stewart?
00:14:33.422 --> 00:14:35.065 I know what mine would be.
00:14:35.065 --> 00:14:36.375 Let's wrap it up.
00:14:36.414 --> 00:14:41.208 My friend and that's a wrap.
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