I've bemoaned the fact of government not behaving as the citizenship wanted in a very long time. However, life was better for the wife and I under Trump 1.0. Fast forward to post election 2024. DOGE was conceived by me and adopted by the incoming administration. Lest you think I'm bragging, I posted several times about how we could transform our runaway spending and government bloat at the same time. The concept is quite simple. If we (government) take in X dollars, we simply roll back spending to that point in time to match it and cut departments/agencies to that funding level. The new Trump team trolled news and media and glommed onto my inspiration. Maybe not in all forms or to my visionary concept, but everyday I see examples of it. Delete the Dept. of Education, get rid of the silly Gun Violence Prevention office in the WH, etc. I'm even getting requests for ideas from the Trump organization and have been getting invitations to the inauguration. I would never visit DC and abhor meetings ad nauseum, but I can give the occasional contribution of thought (not money). I have some ideas about taxing NGOs, dark money PACs and possibly 501C-3s, but I shall need to spend some range time as I ponder the possibilities.