Free money’s effect on government not good

“Free” money must be as addictive as hard drugs. I say that because of the reaction by the leftist Deep State’s dramatic opposition to President Donald Trump’s efforts to reduce unnecessary and wasted federal spending.

The Left apparently believes removing their slush funds is an attack on their “democracy.”

I’ve listed a number of reports by the DOGE committee, headed by Elon Musk on this page previously.

From the Left’s response to these needed reforms, you’d think he’d hit their grandmother.

Actually, he just uncovered the stash they’ve been hiding from misinformed taxpayers they rely on to fi nance their Washington lifestyles.

Just a few examples were revealed by White House press secretary Karoline Leavett in this space on Wednesday.

It’s sickening to think of the billions – no trillions – of dollars Americans have had spent for them to advance programs the majority of them disagree with.

Victor Davis Hanson revealed the hijinks of the left by comparing the Left’s whining complaints about Trump to the observation of French Foreign Secretary Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, who remarked of the restoration of the French kings after the French Revolution. “Unfortunately,” Talleyrand said, “they have forgotten nothing and they’ve learned nothing.” Meaning, the same thing is going to happen again and again.

“That’s applicable to today’s angry, addicted Left.

Hanson commented:

“We have suffered now from almost a decade of Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, fi ve criminal and civil suits, 91 indictments, efforts to get Donald Trump off the ballot. I could go on and on in a nauseating fashion, but they all have had two results.”

People are tired of them and bored by their complaints and false accusations.

I admire Hanson’s columns.

Although he is a classicist with a Ph.D. from California’s exclusive Stanford University, he was raised on a grape farm and is the fi fth generation to live in his family’s rural home.

His incisive yet common sense approach to issues cause me to think he is a latter-day Benjamin Franklin.

One of Hanson’s most-acclaimed works deals with the role of family farmers in developing democracy in ancient Greece.

So, it’s nothing new that people nearest the soil are the backbone of civilization ... and freedom.

Hanson, in a recent work, expressed disgust with the questioning of Pete Hegseth by leftist Democrats in the Senate when he was up for approval on Trump’s cabinet as Secretary of Defense.

Hanson commented:

“There was no discussion in those ad hominem attacks on really critical questions for all of our security concerns. Are we short artillery shells? Is the traditional triad of submarine- based, missile-based, and airplane-based nuclear deterrent; does it still work? Are we short Javelins? Should we be looking more at drones after the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine? None of that came up.

It was, “Were you drinking? Did you have adultery, adultery, adultery?” He’s admitted he was a fl awed person in his personal life for many years. And now, all of a sudden, he’s on his way to be the new defense secretary.

“And what happens?” Hanson continued. “Is there a great new debate over a defense issue? No, we’re told that his former sister-in-law, a very strong Democrat that his brother divorced, has now gone to a Democratic welcoming law fi rm to say that she heard his former wife say that he was cruel, or he was dangerous, or he might beat her, or he drank too much.

“Samantha Hegseth, his second wife, has said it was not true and that her former sister-in-law was simply trying to work for the Democrats to stop his nomination.”

The Left is so used to using a compliant national media to carry its water that it thinks it still works.

They’ve learned nothing.

Just thinking out loud… Do you suppose if half the people in Washington were fi red us normals could tell the difference?

The Left apparently loved operating without a real chief executive.

Joe Biden spent his four years either on vacation or sleeping, it seemed.

President Trump, who is 78 – not that much younger than Biden – appears to be working diligently night and day to fi x the messes Biden’s cabal caused.

Trump fi ts the executive the founders proposed when they wrote in the Constitution:

“The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America” (Article II, Section 1, Clause 1).

(One man in charge of the executive branch and responsible for its success or failure.)

A column by Rob Natelson on Townhall.com provided Founder Alexander Hamilton’s thoughts on the presidency as written in No. 70 of the Federalist Papers, i.e.:

* “Those politicians and statesmen who have been the most celebrated for the soundness of their principles and for the justice of their views, have declared in favor of a single Executive and a numerous legislature.”

* “A feeble Executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution . . . .”

* “The ingredients which constitute energy in the Executive are, first, unity; secondly, duration; thirdly, an adequate provision for its support; fourthly, competent powers.

One of the concluding comments, which could be a reference to the group that ran things during Joe Biden’s tenure except it was written some 250 years earlier, says: *“But one of the weightiest objections to a plurality in the Executive . . . is, that it tends to conceal faults and destroy responsibility.”

*“[T]he plurality of the Executive tends to deprive the people of . . . the opportunity of discovering with facility and clearness the misconduct of the persons they trust, in order either to their removal from office or to their actual punishment in cases which admit of it.”

*“[A]ll multiplication of the Executive is rather dangerous than friendly to liberty.”

We’ve recently observed the results.