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https://amac.us/newsline/society/rock-flipping-reagan-gingrich-trump-and- maine/

Years ago, my job was “rock flipping” – for Speaker Gingrich. Over five
years, my job was to investigate, dig out, shine light on, and do criminal referrals for bad actors – bureaucrats, politicians, contractors. Starting
with the Waco investigation, we ripped up the floorboards. Never slept
better. So, how do you do it, get at rot?

Ronald Reagan, for whom I also worked, practiced strong leadership, good government, and oversight. Basics: Keep government small, punish bad
actors, cut, fire without regret or nostalgia, and just stay on it.

When tearing apart the government to streamline and get accountability for
the People, first ask if a task needs to be done at all. Do we need it?
Often, the answer is no.

Our Founders, Reagan, Gingrich, Trump, and conservatives err on the side
of limiting – not expanding – government, less, not more. Power is the People’s.

In practical terms, eliminate anything unnecessary. Be ruthless, like you
were tearing apart your closet in spring, toss, do not mull over programs
that no longer fit, are moldy, stink, or were never good. Get rid of the misguided regulations. Terminate what is inconsistent with the taxpayer’s needs, kept by bureaucrats and politicians.

Rightly understood, “waste, fraud, and abuse” are sand in the gears. Waste
is tax dollars stupidly misspent, often for more than the next year.
Unneeded, it is a waste. Fraud is illegality, unauthorized, non-competed, self-interested, and hidden; it must be prosecuted. Abuse is misspending
with avarice, extreme greed, or malice.

Reagan went after all of them. So did Gingrich, and now Trump. This is not shadow boxing, a political game, but entirely real. A huge percentage of
what we give the government becomes waste, fraud, and abuse – federal and
state levels. That is – in a word – illegal.

In Maine, a state audit – air-brushed of political, procurement, and
contractor names – showed $2.1 billion in questionable contracts, sole-
source, non-competed, papered after spent, pocketed by friends and family, waste, fraud, and abuse. Anything done? Nothing. Criminal? Yes. Internal corruption, to the top.

What does that mean? Like Reagan, Gingrich, and Trump, a reckoning, since
– back to those basics – power and the money belong to the People, not government.

What other principles did Reagan apply? A team of well-heeled
investigators was let loose on government, like German shorthairs flushing partridges, uninhibited. Inspectors general open every compartment of
agencies, and can state level too.

What else? Go deep on management of government, which is different because
no profit motive. Set performance measures or metrics, consistent with a strategy across the government – goals, objectives, aimed-for outcomes,
not “how much money did you spend,” not “what did you spend it on,” but
“what did you get for it? Revisit it annually. If taxpayers are not
getting what they paid for, cut it.

Reagan also listened well to the private sector and citizens – in an
ongoing way – to understand what the government was doing wrong, where off track. In effect, he turned citizens into inspectors general, got
proactive, pro-business, pro-liberty.

Back in the Gingrich days, that was my job – as an investigator, attorney, fighter for truth – to hunt down waste, fraud, and abuse, get perpetrators
to justice, and do countless criminal referrals. We did that daily and
saved billions.

Life has a way of being ironic, which was for me, because a few years
later – while running a small company – I got called back, this time to
run a $2 billion government operation. I was a nightmare for the
bureaucrats, as I knew their tricks.

Using Reagan’s and Gingrich’s principles, I overhauled operations at State
– while also delivering program results, a balancing act, inspiring while
rock flipping.

In the end, the key is making clear that the jig is up, no more tomfoolery
– or you lose your job, or could be behind bars. Good behavior is
rewarded, bad called out. Once that is clear, things get smooth. Maine –
like other blue states – needs “rock flipping” now. My goal, as “rock
flipper in chief,” will be restoring accountability.


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November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump. We look
forward to America being great again.

We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.

Every day is an IQ test. Some pass, some, not so much.

Thank you for cleaning up the disasters of the 2008-2017, 2020-2024 Obama
/ Biden / Harris fiascos, President Trump.

Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.

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