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if you zoom out on what doge is doing I
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think the best way to describe it is
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zerob based budgeting in organizations
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that go through zerob based budgeting
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you do a cycle typically annually where
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you take all of your OPAC all of your
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expenses and running a company down to
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the studs you take it down to zero and
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you rebuild it up and you say what are
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we trying to achieve this year from
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first principles what's the minimal
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expense we need to run and that's what
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doge is effectively doing they're doing
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a zero based budgeting on the federal
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government they're looking at every line
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item and they're asking the fundamental
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question which I don't think we talk
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about in the public disc enough which is
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what is the essential role of government
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and there is a great debate to be had
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around that point should government be
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providing humanitarian Aid in
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international markets should the
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government be providing security to
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Nations that can't provide security for
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themselves should the government be
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providing loans for people to go to
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universities should the government
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be providing loans for people to buy
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homes that are overpriced and as we
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start to ask the questions of how we're
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spending money I think it ends up
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leading to the most important questions
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which is what is the essential role of
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government which I think is the Deb that
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needs to be had in order for the
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Democracy to last so I'm very happy to
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see the effort of Doge and I think that
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it's the beginning of what I hope will
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be kind of a long-term process of asking
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the fundamental questions about
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essential government