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What would happen if the US Government was no longer in control of its Treasury Department?
You referring to this?.....
"And Friday, the highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department, David A. Lebryk, reportedly resigned after refusing to hand Musk’s lackeys the keys to the government’s entire payment system and the $6 trillion in payments the system processes annually.
The Treasury’s payment system is responsible for delivering trillions in Social Security payments, Medicare benefits and more to millions of Americans across the country. It’s not yet entirely clear what Musk plans to do with this system, which has historically been overseen by a small number of career officials. But a few possibilities have emerged..."
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency access to the federal payment system late on Friday, according to five people familiar with the change, handing Elon Musk and the team he is leading a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
Giving Elon Musk*'s team free reign into federal computer systems/data is about as helpful as letting Gaius Baltar's associates roam freely through the Colonial Defense Mainframe**.
I would respond that copying files, depending on how handled and what they are, may be illegal and is illegal if sensitive, need-to-know, classified, etc. I find I ponder many dilemmas lately in a world where the "leadership class" is, not above the law, but exempt from the law and everyone else can get in trouble whether they break the law or not, but especially if they DO scrape against the law.
Ya, there's the rub: if others depend upon you. Protesting and civil disobedience was much easier for me as a younger man. Add to that, age requires daily maintenance prescriptions.
But, who was it said this? "If you've not found something worth dying for, then you have nothing to live for." (MLK?)
“There are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true, that they are worth dying for. And I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King speech in Detroit on 06/23/1963
+1. Do not do anything illegal, even if intentions are noble, especially if other human beings depend on you.
Stock market is Trump's barometer of success. As investors we can vote with our dollars. I, for one, am willing to forego short term stock market gains and selling equities (tax deferred only) into the tariffs.
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"And Friday, the highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department, David A. Lebryk, reportedly resigned after refusing to hand Musk’s lackeys the keys to the government’s entire payment system and the $6 trillion in payments the system processes annually.
The Treasury’s payment system is responsible for delivering trillions in Social Security payments, Medicare benefits and more to millions of Americans across the country. It’s not yet entirely clear what Musk plans to do with this system, which has historically been overseen by a small number of career officials. But a few possibilities have emerged..."
-NYT
* cosplaying technologist business super-jenius
** watch the Battlestar Galactica reboot
Do not do anything illegal, even if intentions are noble, especially if other human beings depend on you.
But, who was it said this? "If you've not found something worth dying for, then you have nothing to live for." (MLK?)
that they are worth dying for.
And I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for,
he isn’t fit to live.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King speech in Detroit on 06/23/1963