One thing I hope DOGE goes through like a dose of salts

are a lot of government subsidies.

For some reason or another, the wool subsidy made a certain amount of sense. It was there in case of war because wool was used for warm uniforms by the military for cold weather uniforms.

Back in the early 70s when I was a soldier I was issued wool pants and wool shirts in my TA-50. They did the job well enough on winter field problems.

I was also issued wool GI blankets and they were pretty good...for the times.  

Had the Slobovians bombed Oyster Bay in a fiendish sneak attack the demand for uniform wool would have been damned high. Synthetics for outdoor clothing was still in its infancy back then.

By the mid 80s synthetics were beginning to take off. By 1990 wool uniforms were a thing of the past. The subsidy should have been lifted by 1990. In this day and age wool for military use was history.

Still, it continued.

Here's a list of the Heritage Foundation's top ten obsolete government programs that ought to be done away with.

https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/commentary/top-10-obsolete-government-programs  link will open in a new window.

Truth is although it will cost jobs the jobs that will be eliminated are jobs we pay people to do little or nothing.

There WAS a time when people would take a government job at somewhat less pay than their non government counterpart because of government benefits and retirement. These were people playing the long game, but that's changed. They more often than not do better than their non government counterparts.

Nobody likes seeing people lose their jobs but the fact is there's really not much use to what many government employees are doing.

When Joe Biden clouted the coal miners people asked what the coal miners were going to do and his answer was learn to code.

While a few wags thought that would be an appropriate answer to those that lose their jobs, I'd like to be a little bigger than that. Most government employees have pretty good educations and can probably be absorbed into the civilian market a lot easier than they think.

Of course, in the case of the real whiners we can tell them that they'll be plenty of jobs open after we deport the illegals.

 

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