Why Elon Musk failed. I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green. This episode of Right

Angle is brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com. Gentlemen, that's the headline over an

editorial board op-ed piece in the Washington Post this week, talking about the mistakes that Elon

Musk made as head of the Department of Government

Efficiency during the, what, some 135 days that he was legally allowed to be in that employment.

And men, I want to look at this in a different way than the Washington Post did.

First of all, let me say, I was surprised at how not crazy the whole thing was.

I really expected a much loonier kind of thing. And I will grant that they didn't consider the positive aspects of what Elon Musk achieved in that role.

But Stephen Green, they did point out some things which I thought

were worth hearing. And I want to put this more in the context of what do you think would

happen if a guy like Elon, not that there's anybody like him, had more than 135 days,

had the opportunity to devote themselves long-term to the process that it would take to make the federal government more efficient.

But there were several things they pointed out, and I'm summarizing briefly here, Steve.

Number one, they said he tried to change something that he didn't fully understand.

Number two, while there are many people who have dreamed of what would happen

if a good business person got into government and was able to run it according to government principles,

one of the things you need to understand when you're running a government agency

is there are no market forces that you have to deal with in business.

So there's nobody who's basically trying to kill you every day and you have to survive.

They didn't say it that way. I did. Number three, he erred in just cleaning house as much as he could, but not trying to find ways to support

the good government employees who were doing the best they could under the constraints

of the circumstances.

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