W-S Journal Letter-to -Editor: A bomb, not a plan
“In a letter I wrote on Dec. 1, in the Journal, I noted, ‘We need tactful administrative surgeons for this job, not political, attention seeking hacks.’”
Did Donald Trump make a mistake entrusting Elon Musk over Vivek Ramaswamy with DOGE? Vivek wanted to go through government. Elon obviously did not.
The Trump administration is now backtracking on its chainsaw methods and going for more of a "surgical approach," per The Washington Post on March 9.
In a letter I wrote on Dec. 1, in the Journal, I noted, "We need tactful administrative surgeons for this job, not political, attention seeking hacks."
Additionally, "Can government be more efficient? Yes. Will it be so with people who have no idea what it does? No." This letter is a part two.
I'll reiterate: "When I see a leak in the house, I call a plumber, not a lawyer. And when I have questions about the law, I don't go to a plumber instead of a lawyer." Being someone who studies public administration (i.e., government), why weren't we consulted?
Project 2025, the grand blueprint for the Trump administration, wasn't a schematic, for a grand scale remodeling of government, it was for an administrative bomb. The itch to move fast and break things broke too much too fast.
The Clinton administration did something like this before, but it balanced the budget without all the hoopla - only a stack of papers, sound policy and professional consideration. It's not "The Apprentice."
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