Musk the unelected bureaucrat: “The greatest economic threat we have ever faced !!!”

Photo above - pop quiz: name these 3 "unelected bureaucrats" and guess which nitwit is actually the biggest threat to the American economy.

Okay – the government and media are carping about Musk, in case anyone has been living under a rock. Musk and DOGE and his whiz kid programmers have apparently quickly untangled 20 years of legacy spaghetti code – some of it written by people long dead. THIS is the biggest threat America has ever faced?

I’m no fan of Musk, as my previous columns will attest. He’s a pot smoking, serial baby daddy making, preening narcissist who has conned the government out of billions in subsidies going back to the Obama administration. If you deplore Musk's huge net worth, remember how he got there.

But when some career bureaucrats start phoning the media about other bureaucrats – their new bosses – I take that stuff a grain of salt. That’s the deep state calling.

If we need a recap of unelected bureaucrats who have harmed America’s economy, let’s start with Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell. Musk has done more in 7 days to get a handle on budget deficits and the national debt than Powell has in the 7 years since he took office. I challenge anyone to explain how Powell’s policies have helped America. The national debt is growing exponentially, nobody can afford a home or mortgage, and he cynically cut interest rates as a political stunt just weeks before the 2024 presidential election.

Another unelected bureaucrat who should be in the crosshairs is Janet Yellen. The 79 year old former Treasury Secretary. Other than phoning CEOs to cajole them into supporting an increase to the national debt limit, I can’t identify a single thing Janet did. Trump replaced her with Scott Bessant last week.

If we’re concerned about federal spending let’s acknowledge that much of this falls in the laps of the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Secretary of Housing. All appointed, never elected. If these bureaucrats were adding value we wouldn’t have the planet's most bloated military, most unaffordable housing, and a healthcare system which is the laughingstock of the western hemisphere.

I’m under no illusions that Trump, Elon, and his cadre of gray hat whiz kids are going to fix anything important by the end of the month. But the fact that the hundreds of legacy bureaucrats – and unions – are shrieking in outrage might be evidence that decades of malfeasance are threatened.

I’m just sayin’ . . .

"The greatest threat we've ever faced": US Treasury division classifies DOGE staff as extreme danger