After six weeks of uncovering untold horrors of waste, fraud and abuse in government through the DOGE project, Elon Musk spoke with Joe Rogan over the weekend about what he has learned from it:

According to the RealClearPolitics transcript:

ELON MUSK: At the heart of the sort of like, why is the Democrat propaganda machine so fired up to destroy me? That's the main reason. The main reason is that, is that, entitlements fraud, that includes, like, Social Security, disability, Medicaid, entitlements fraud for illegal aliens is what is serving as a gigantic magnetic force to pull people in from all around the world and keep them here.

Basically, if you pay people, at a standard of living that is above 90% of Earth, then you have a very powerful incentive for 90% of Earth to come here and to stay here. But if you if you end the illegal alien fraud, then you that you turn off that magnet, and they leave. And they they stop coming, and the and the ones that are here, many of them will simply leave.

And if that happens, a mass they will lose a massive number of Democratic voters.

 

This corresponds to numerous observations he's made as he's gone along in the DOGE process about massive numbers of Social Security going to places like Ukraine and other unlikely retirement destinations.

Some of the findings are described here:

And other unsavory discoveries made by DOGE here:

The fact that there has been little to no effort to correct this, rooting out fraud to ensure that the trust fund is available to those who paid into it as they retire, is probably among the things that made Musk draw the conclusion that it was seen as a desireable thing by someone in political power, notably the Democrats who used Social Security and other benefits as a magnet to draw millions of illegals into the U.S. to create Democrat votes.

Basically, if you pay people, at a standard of living that is above 90% of Earth, then you have a very powerful incentive for 90% of Earth to come here and to stay here.

Which explains the intensity of Democrat efforts to stop Musk and keep the benefit packages flowing to illegal border crossers from abroad. Cut the unearned benefits, and in all likelihood, millions will return home, or seek a free ride in Europe, which also is seeking to replace its electorate.

It's a cynical, ugly picture, but Musk has gone through thousands of records and seen thousands of day-by-day reports about where the leakage is, where the waste and fraud is, and where the sensitive spots are for those who benefit from it. He calls this entitlements fraud "the heart of it."

That's a critical mission that may well save the shambles that is our government. The reality, as he states, is that the U.S. is going bankrupt from this horrendous harvesting and thievery.

Thank goodness we have DOGE to stop the flood. How did we get so lucky?

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