Elon Musk is not an idiot, but he sure as hell sounds like one when arguing to do away with the entirety of the Build Back Better program, currently making its way through Congress.

There is no way for any of us to know whether Musk actually knows much about how government works. He is certainly a brilliant visionary who recognizes opportunity and then builds a company, perhaps the best in history. He built PayPal from the ground up, became a billionaire, sold it high, then used the money to start two other companies, Tesla and Space X, both thriving (Now. It was touch and go for a while), making him either the richest or second richest guy on earth, depending on what day or who you ask.

But he sounds like a moron talking about government. Just the News:

“Rules and regulations are immortal,” Musk said at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council event on Thursday evening. “They don’t die. The vast majority of rules and regulations live forever … there’s not really an effective garbage collection system for removing rules and regulations, so this hardens the arteries of civilization where you are able to do less and less over time.”

Yeah. It sounds like it’s really hurt you. And if his concentration is more on the rules and regulations in the Build Back Better bill, then he’s not even looking at the right thing as a starting point. Someone has to first rebuild the infrastructure before one can regulate it, and we desperately need new infrastructure:

Musk warned that the nation’s record $3 trillion deficit could lead to negative consequences. 

“If this was a company, it would be a $3 trillion loss,” he said, addressing the federal government’s level of spending. “This can’t keep going.”

Musk said the U.S. government could “delete” all billionaires and still not be able to fix the deficit. 

It is true. The three trillion dollars could lead to negative consequences. Doing nothing could also lead to very negative consequences.

Meanwhile, the government is not supposed to be operating like a corporation that is trying to make money or even break even. The deficits are a problem – tax higher! – But they are also betting on growing the economy to suck up some of that deficit, trickle UP.

We are not the richest people on earth, but there are some things we can figure out… Oh, and regulations are not at all forever. Does anyone remember Trump changing a lot of the Obama regulations?

Musl got ripped on Twitter by the type of people that would rip him, and was praised vociferously by the MAGAs that want Biden to fail at all costs, even if it hurts the country.

Shame on mean, greedy, short sightedness of billionaires to reject any support to hard working families, struggling to make their living form pay check to paycheck. These greedy billionaires are feeding the fodder to Manchin & Sinema not to get on board, despite majority support. https://t.co/7fTilXvYtb

— Concerned for Future (@AlvaAshok) December 7, 2021

oh yeah remind me how billionaires are going to solve climate change
? https://t.co/fkrtkuEb90

— Brad Johnson SUBSCRIBE TO HILLHEAT.NEWS (@climatebrad) December 7, 2021

https://twitter.com/AefcArty/status/1468097365135527938

https://twitter.com/vgcrutchfield/status/1468140522262962177

And there are definitely a lot of MAGAs that agree with him, but primarily because they hate Biden and know that Biden’s success is their loss or something.

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