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The goal is to restore democracy by fixing the feedback loop between the people and the government. An unelected bureaucracy shouldn't have more power than elected representatives; it must be responsive to the people. We also need to address the $2 trillion deficit to avoid bankrupting the country. Reducing federal expenses is essential for solvency.
We've found odd instances, like bureaucrats with inexplicably high net worths. Basic payment controls are missing, leading to unauditable expenses. Payments lack categorization, comments, and proper "do not pay" lists. We're adding common-sense controls to ensure taxpayer dollars are spent wisely. There are Social Security payments going to people over 150 years old or with no identifying information. We also want to right-size the federal bureaucracy by encouraging eligible people to retire.
Speaker 0: We'll take some questions. Elon, go ahead.
Speaker 1: Sure. So the, at a high level, you say what is the goal of Dojo or and I think a significant part of this presidency is to restore democracy. This may seem like, well, are we in a democracy? Well, if you don't have a feedback with FX, we'd have to sorry, gravitas can be difficult sometimes. So if there's not a good feedback loop from the people to the government and if you have rule of the bureaucrat, if the bureaucracy is in charge and then then what meaning does democracy actually have?
If the people cannot vote and have their will be decided by their elected representatives in the in the form of the president and and the senate and the house, then we don't live in a democracy. We live in a bureaucracy. So it's incredibly important that we close that feedback loop, we fix that feedback loop, and that the public, the public's elected representatives, the president, the house, and the senate decide what happens as opposed to an a large unelected bureaucracy. This is not to say that there aren't some good there are good people who who, are in the federal bureaucracy, but but you can't have an autonomous federal bureaucracy. You have to have one that's responsive to the people.
That's the whole point of a democracy. And so, and if if you look at the if you ask to look the founders today and said, what do you think of the way things have turned out? Or what we have this unelected, fourth unconstitutional branch of of government, which which is the bureaucracy, which has, in a lot of ways, currently more power than any elected representative. And this is, this is not something that people want, and it's it's not it does not match the will of people. So it's just something we've got to we've got to fix.
And we've also got to address the the deficit. So we've got a $2,000,000,000,000 deficit. And if this if we don't do something about this deficit, country's going bankrupt. I mean, it's it's really astounding that the, the interest payments alone on national debt exceed the defense department budget, which is shocking because we've got a lot we spend a lot of money on defense. But and and if that just keeps going, we're essentially gonna bankrupt the country.
So what what I really wanna say is, like, it's not optional for us to sit to reduce the federal expenses. It's essential. It's essential for America to remain solvent as a country, and it's essential for America to have the resources necessary to provide things to its citizens and not simply be servicing vast amounts of debt.
Speaker 0: And also, could you mention some of the things that your team has found, some of the crazy numbers, including the woman that walked away with about 30,000,000, etcetera?
Speaker 1: Well, we we we are we do find it sort of rather odd that, you know, there there are quite a few, people in in in the bureaucracy who have a ostensibly a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars but somehow managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position, which is, you know, what what happened to USAID. We're just curious as to where it came from. Maybe they're very good at investing. They, in which case, we should take their investment advice perhaps. But, just this seems to be mysteriously they they get wealthy.
We don't know why. Where does it come from? And I think the reality is that they're getting wealthy at taxpayer expense. That's that's the honest truth of it. So, you know, we're looking at, say, well, we just if you look at, say, Treasury, for example, basic controls that should be in place, that are in place in any company, such as making sure that any given payment has a payment categorization code, that there is a comment field that describes the payment, and that if it if a payment is on the do not pay list, that you don't actually pay it.
None of those things are true currently. So the reason that departments can't pass audits is because the payments don't have a categorization code. It's like just a massive number of blank checks checks just flying out the building. So you can't reconcile blank checks. You've got comment fields that are also blanks.
You don't know why the payment was made. And then we've got this truly absurd, a do not pay list, which can take up to a year for an organization to get on the do not pay list. And this we're talking about terrorist organizations, we're talking about known fraudsters, known aspects of waste, known things that do not match any congressional appropriation can take up to a year to get on the list. And even what's on the list, the list is not used. It's mind blowing.
So so what we're talking here, we're really just talking about adding common sense controls that should be present, that that haven't been present. So you say, like, well, how could such a thing arise? That's that seems that seems crazy. But when you understand that that really everything is geared towards complaint minimization, so that that then you understand the motivations. So if people receive money, they don't complain, obviously.
But if people don't receive money, they do complain. And and the fraudsters complain the loudest and the fastest. So, then when you understand that, then it makes sense. Oh, that's why everything just they approve all the payments at Treasury because if you approve all the payments, get complaints. But now now we're saying that, no, actually, we we are going to complain.
If if money is spent badly, if the if your taxpayer dollars are not spent in a sensible and approvable manner, then that's not okay. Your your tax dollars need to be spent wisely on the things that matter to the people. I mean, these things, like, it's just common sense. It's not it's it's it's not draconian or radical, I think. It's it's really just saying, let's look look at each each of the expenditures and say, is this actually in the best interest of the people?
And if it is, it's approved. If it's not, we should think about it. So, you know, there's crazy things like just cursory examination of Social Security, and we've got people in there that are 50 years old. Now do you know anyone 50? I don't.
Okay. This they should be on the Guinness Book of World Records. They're missing out. So, you know, that's a case where, like, I think they're probably dead. It's my guess.
Or or they should be very famous. One of the two. And then there's a whole bunch of Social Security payments where there's no identify identifying information. Well, why is there no identifying information? Obviously, we wanna make we wanna make sure that people who deserve, to receive Social Security do receive it.
And that they receive it quickly and accurately. Also another crazy thing. So, you know, one of the things is like we are trying to sort of right size the federal bureaucracy just to make sure this obviously needs to there needs to be a lot of people working for federal government, but not as many as currently. So we're saying, well, okay, well, let's if if people can retire, you know, with full benefits, benefits, everything, that would be good. They can retire, get their retirement payments, everything.
And then we were told this is actually, I think, a great anecdote, because we were told that the the most number of people that could retire possibly in a month is 10,000. We're like, well, why why is that?
