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I heard it, and I hope you heard it too! Trump told the world he is removing all those unelected bureaucrats from power in our federal government.

So I expect to read in the headlines tomorrow that Elon Musk has moved back to Texas to resume his job as ticket agent for flights to Mars.

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I'm glad to hear that. We have enough problems with our elected bureaucrats. Those unelected ones do too much.

Before I retired, I was a contractor for commercial and government - federal, state and local - clients. I worked with federal clients from USEPA, DoE, DOD (including Army, Navy, Air Force, Corps of Engineers, Army Toxic and Hazardous Materials Agency) and DoJ. These included men and women from the trenches - career civil servants who did most of the heavy lifting - and some political appointees.

Whether there were too many I have no idea. I have not studied the issue. But those whom I worked with were diligent, technically very astute, careful with public money and helpful.

Congress passed the laws we all worked under. The feds put meat on the congressional bones because they had the expertise which congress lacked, and had the means and the personnel to conduct research. Regulations were first mooted in the (daily) Federal Register with a comment period of (usually) sixty or ninety days which allowed other experts to weigh in for or against. The feds took these comments and maybe changed the proposed regulation or told the commenter he was full of shit (I've had both) and left the proposed reg alone. In other words it's an open process and the USA would just not function without these unelected bureaucrats.