New in PJ Media:
“When the sun goes down, the tide goes out, the people gather ’round and they all begin to shout, ‘Hey, hey, in the dusk, it’s a lift to beat the left with ol’ Mississippi Musk!’” Okay, okay, so it’s not as catchy as the actual song, but one thing that is catching is the Trumpian quest to cut the fat from government spending and make more efficient, and saner, use of the taxpayers’ money. In Mississippi, state auditor Shad White, also known as “Mississippi Musk,” has been hard at work against state government bloat, and what he has found is enlightening.
Ol’ Shad, as I imagine the folks down there in Clarkdale an’ Natchez call him, has found that Mississippi has wasted a staggering amount of money, and he would be the first one to tell you that it is extremely unlikely that Elvis’ home state is alone in this. Fox News reported Monday that White is releasing “a compilation of audits conducted by his office that tabulated a collective $400 million in waste over the course of his tenure.”
That compilation is as sure to be as big a hit as “Heartbreak Hotel,” at least among patriots who are tired of seeing the fruits of their labors devoured among the corrupt, incompetent, and undeserving. (By the way, that wasn’t just an Oxford comma there, folks; that was an Oxford, Mississippi comma.)
White remarked: “In the last few weeks, we’ve jokingly started calling ourselves MOGE, the Mississippi Office of Government Efficiency, like Elon Musk’s DOGE. We approach our work with the same attention to every penny as DOGE, and I’m happy to be Mississippi’s Musk.” Indeed. Every state should have a Musk, and a DOGE. Just imagine what COGE, the California Office of Government Efficiency, or NYOGE, the New York Office of Government Efficiency, would uncover.
After all, Mississippi is a relatively small and poor state that hasn’t voted for a Democrat in a presidential election since it went for Jimmy Carter in 1976 (clearly Mississippians learned their lesson from that). It is unlikely to have the kind of massively corrupt state government that comes from electing socialists who think they’re entitled to as much of your money as they can seize, so as to spend it on DEI, Critical Race Theory, and transgender madness. And even so, Mississippi Musk and his team found a great deal of money that could have and should have been better spent.
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John1 says
Wherever you have one party rule, you have corruption.
John1 says
Wherever you have one party rule, you have corruption.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Good trend. Hope all states start it – even though the (D) run states would be only too eager to sabotage it
OLD GUY says
How sad it is that the hard working class of America are having their tax dollars so misused by our elected officials and their appointed to departments of state. Just where are the auditors that we pay token track of our money? It seems like these auditors don’t exist or they are in on the theft of OUR MONEY.