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Here's John Bachelor.

I welcome Varenique to Regi of the Mercatus Center,

observing the remark by the presidential candidate for the Republican Party,

Mr. Trump, to employ Elon Musk, the richest man in the solar system now and again, in order to

cut down on government waste. That's a big term, so I need Varenique's help.

Varenique, this sounds like a great idea.

Once upon a time, FDR had a similar idea.

He watched the Senate and a man named Truman out of Missouri

headed up an investigation in the Senate during the Second

War to make sure there wasn't wasted government contracts, especially military contracts. We know that that turned into President Harry Truman and a presidential library.

That is not going to happen to Elon Musk unless they changed the Constitution.

He wasn't born in the United States, nor was he born of American

parents. However, you believe that this is a good idea. How so? How would it come about that you can

cut down on government waste? I thought that was built in good evening to a very unique

Good evening no actually it is built in in fact I think it is part of the incentives of government is to cater to special interest

and to give them stuff that they want that is not necessarily a good thing for all of us, right?

It may be good for the special interest, but not for the general welfare.

But one of the difficulties about when we talk about waste is we all have different

the conception of waste.

What President Trump talked about is improper payment and fraud.

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