The quasi-methodical destruction of America by Americans is mind-boggling. It is hard to wrap my head around all of it. I am not a fan of dissing on those in need the most. The entitled attitude of those who have to assume that those who don’t somehow deserve to be thrown out with the bathwater makes no sense. Government is vital on countless levels.
The other night, I wanted to watch a documentary on PBS and needed to download the app to the TV. I did like that PBS asked me for a donation before allowing me to get the app, but after that, everything went sideways. I stuck with it because I wanted to watch the film but I was also curious to see how the process worked.
It took me about 20 minutes to get everything up and running. There were countless firewalls, most of which made no sense in 2025. I couldn’t help but wonder if the government had not funded PBS all these years, would the process have been better?
PBS, particularly Sesame Street, was a daily part of my life growing up. The importance of PBS doesn’t take much as we are all paying for the content we watch daily, and not everyone has those funds.
The majority of the government is still operating on a paper-based system. Like every other company, we have yet to catch up to technology at the government level. That pronounced difference began in the early 90s as backend systems were being built rapidly, but not in the government. Is that what pisses Elon off?
Every day, the slash-and-burn of support that goes to research, programs, education, arts, etc., is astounding and frightening, considering there seems to be no real plan except to make the underserved suffer more.
After spending time trying to get PBS up and running, and now getting their countless emails, I wonder how the government needs to change. The unions and the layers of bureaucracy add up to massive dollars and delays. How do we fix that? Firing people and slashing agencies is not a solution but an angry response. There is no government program that does not run overtime and is over budget. Every finger is on the scale taking a piece of the pie through unions, corruption, and incompetence. This has to change but certainly taking people off the streets and out of their homes is not the answer, nor is destruction of the government with zero direction. I am also angry at the incompetence of our government building anything but dictatorship and taking money from the Saudis is certainly not an answer.
Where is the voice of change for good? The only worthy voice I heard this week about PBS was someone who said, “Trump doesn’t want to pay for PBS? Well, I do not want to pay for his golf game. Bravo!”
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