Summary
Rep. Harriet Hageman faced loud boos at a Wyoming town hall after endorsing funding for Elon Musk’s DOGE cost-cutting initiative.
The crowd, mostly opposed to her stance, jeered as she laughed and clapped, labeling the audience’s reaction “embarrassing.”
Hageman defended Social Security funding despite concerns that Musk’s efficiency drive might cut it, calling it a “Ponzi scheme.”
The only bipartisan applause came when Hageman opposed closing rural mail distribution centers.
This is what people don’t understand about government. I was a Ross Perot supporter back in the 90s, and bought into his concept of running the government like a business. I’ve learned a lot since then, and even though I still respect Perot the man, I have come to disagree with nlmost of his political concepts.
The government shouldn’t be run like a business because it isn’t a business; a government is a completely different kind of entity. Think of the enormous size of a super corporation like GM, or Disney, or Apple. Then realize that the US government is bigger than EVERY corporation in America - COMBINED. The government is so big, it tells corporations how to behave, ALL corporations.
Any American corporation has one single over-riding objective - to maximize profits. The government has no such profit motive, it’s objective is to leverage our tax revenues and our credit in the world economy to our nation’s highest benefit. That requires entirely different skillsets than many businesspeople. Successful businesspeople often believe that their success in the business world will translate to the government world, only to find out that government is much more complex in many different ways.
I no longer agree with Perot’s concept of Kitchen Table Economics, but I still agree with his concept for Election Reform. He wanted presidential campaigns to be 90 days long, and funded by the government. That would keep them short enough that there wouldnt be enough time for much propagamda nonsense. Since they couldn’t take any money from public or corporate donors, there would be no quid pro quo deals between candidates and big money donors. That means the ONLY currency of value in any election would be the citizen’s single vote, and candidates would have to sell themselves to the citizens for those votes, instead of to corporations and the wealthy.