Everyone’s eyes on are the federal government right now as we see President Trump causing an uproar with tariffs and his Elon Musk-led DOGE, the acronym for Department of Government Efficiency.
Everyone appears to have an opinion about whether the DOGE efforts are great or disastrous. For me, I’d just really like to find some facts.
I do think the “jump in and make cuts” mentality has led to some big mistakes. Surely, Trump expected members of Congress to be inundated by calls from constituents concerned about this program or that fund.
Of course, the wheels are spinning to try to instill fear in everyone; that’s how politics work these days: if you are against it cry that it’s the end of the world and at least some people will believe you.
Again, I would just like some facts. Not one-sided ones, which appear to be coming from the news media as much as anyone else. And that breaks my heart.
There is no real in-depth coverage. Nobody is trying to show the real positive vs. negative of these decisions. Nobody appears to understand the larger picture of why Americans voted for Trump and his promise to Make America Great Again to begin with.
For those of us who want to see the good and bad about what is going on, we can see why his concept has support, even if the implementation is lacking.
Just from a personal perspective (and yes, without data to back it up), here’s what America looks like from a business woman who has been in the workforce since she was a teenager.
We have gone from a local economy to a global economy. I remember the days of textile jobs and tobacco farms. I remember when my parents operated a country story and local farmers would run a tab until the tobacco sold. That’s the purest form of a local economy.
Now, farmers are raising thousands of acres of crops and watching what is going on in Brazil and Argentina in hopes that they will get healthy prices to pay for those monster combines and buildings full of employees.
When you are the guy growing those crops or you are in the oil and gas business, you know that free market is just a perception. Global marketing is a racket, and a million things can go wrong.
So, when a president, or a guy running for president, says he wants to even the playing field and help out Americans who produce goods, he has their attention.
There are other factors in why Americans want Trump to make dramatic changes to our country. One obvious one is the bureaucracy you go through most of the time when you have to deal with the federal government.
As business owners, my husband and I have stories we can tell. So pardon us for thinking people should actually be held accountable for their jobs. If you can’t bother to tell your boss what you did last week, you should be unemployed.
Trump also has support because of the immigration situation. Let’s not talk about the news, let’s talk about what we know personally.
Someone I know, who does not have insurance, was denied tests she needed for a medical condition because she refused to put out the hundreds of dollars they required. The guy in front of her who did not speak English but was able to say through an interpreter that he had no job, got all the free medical care he wanted.
That, my friends, causes hard feelings, especially when the person who was denied care had been in the workforce for decades.
People are angry, and that’s why they have given Trump the authority to go shake things up.
Things need to be shook up. Is he doing it right? I don’t think so. Is he going to blow the whole thing? I have no idea. Like others, I have concerns. But I won’t jump on anybody’s bandwagon who wants to tell me it’s all good or it’s all bad. Because that just isn’t true. I just wish we could work on keeping the good and fixing the rest.
