Quotes on the budget and on that eternal bane of elected officials, bureaucracy, both courtesy of Thomas Jefferson....
Budget: A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive. - letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, 1823
Bureaucracy: I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. - letter to William Ludlow, 1824
Both quotes are very prescient for today's times, given how hard Elon Musk and DOGE have worked to work just the $150bn or so thus far from the federal budget...and bureaucracies are, next to death and taxes, the absolute bane of humanity.
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