THE WASHINGTON UNION PAPERS: NO. 29

RESTRUCTURING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO END WASTE

To the People of the United States,

The United States does not suffer from a lack of resources; it suffers from a government that hemorrhages taxpayer dollars with reckless abandon. This is not a system of governance; it is a racket, a siphon through which the wealth of a hardworking nation is funneled into an abyss of bureaucratic incompetence, corporate greed, and political self-indulgence. The American people do not work their fingers to the bone, sacrificing time, energy, and prosperity, just so Washington can squander their labor on pet projects, bloated agencies, and wasteful initiatives that serve no one but the entrenched elite.

A nation built on hard work and ingenuity is being strangled by a federal bureaucracy that grows fat on inefficiency, redundancy, and corruption. This is not the careful stewardship of a republic—it is legalized theft, an unchecked expansion of government that consumes wealth at an unsustainable rate while delivering little but frustration and dysfunction in return. Programs are created not to solve problems, but to perpetuate them, ensuring that entire agencies can justify their bloated budgets year after year. Departments overlap in function, each draining billions while achieving nothing. Contracts are awarded not for efficiency, but for political patronage, ensuring that connected corporations receive their cut from the ever-flowing river of government spending.

Washington does not tighten its belt, does not make sacrifices, does not operate with the discipline it demands of its citizens. It preaches fiscal responsibility to the working class while indulging in its own excesses. The American people are told to stretch their paychecks, to accept that Social Security may not be there for them, to watch their wages stagnate while inflation erodes their buying power. Meanwhile, the political class spares itself no luxury, no convenience, no security. Their salaries are guaranteed. Their benefits are untouchable. Their retirement plans are lavish. And when the budget runs dry, when the nation teeters on the edge of financial collapse, they do not cut their own waste—they demand more from the very people they have failed.

Instead, Washington consumes wealth and produces dysfunction, burning through trillions while delivering little but gridlock, waste, and self-preservation for those in power. Roads crumble. Schools fail. Healthcare remains a broken system designed to extract money rather than heal people. Veterans languish in an endless bureaucratic maze. Small businesses struggle under the weight of overregulation while multinational corporations feast on government subsidies and tax loopholes. The very institutions meant to serve the people have become parasitic, feeding off the nation while offering nothing in return but empty rhetoric and broken promises.

This betrayal must end. The American people must no longer accept a system that rewards failure and punishes productivity. They must demand that every dollar taken from their labor is treated with the care and respect it deserves, not thrown into the furnace of governmental waste. The politicians who champion inefficiency, who protect the bloated bureaucracy, who profit from the dysfunction must be held accountable. Their reign of excess and indulgence must come to an end. The people built this nation. The people sustain it. And the people will reclaim it from those who believe they can rule without consequence.

No more excuses. No more reckless spending. No more government fattening itself at the expense of the very people it was created to serve. The time for accountability has arrived, and those who resist it will find themselves standing in the way of a nation that has had enough.

The case for restructuring the federal government is not one of mere fiscal prudence—it is one of national survival. The United States government bleeds trillions in waste, mismanagement, and fraud, not because resources are scarce, but because corruption and incompetence have been permitted to take root. Programs exist not to serve the people, but to serve themselves, bloated agencies replicate tasks, and taxpayer dollars vanish into the abyss of inefficiency. Meanwhile, critical infrastructure crumbles, veterans languish in broken systems, and American workers are told there is not enough money to invest in their futures.

The Freedom Economy Plan and the No More Shutdowns Act offer a blueprint to end this decay, to bring about a government that serves rather than siphons. The path forward is clear: consolidate redundant agencies, eliminate corporate welfare, transition wasteful programs into self-sustaining models, and impose strict accountability measures on every dollar spent. The American people deserve nothing less than a government that treats their contributions with the same discipline and respect that they show in their daily lives.

Washington, as it stands, is a machine built to serve itself. It rewards inefficiency, protects failure, and shields its own from consequence. Trillions are spent on programs that produce no measurable return, departments with overlapping functions duplicate efforts while neither achieves results, and subsidies flow not to those in need but to the corporations that need them least. Every year, the government wastes billions on unaccounted military expenditures, unused office space, outdated IT systems, and fraudulent contracts that serve only to enrich the well-connected. The public is told to tighten their belts while Washington gorges itself on the hard-earned wealth of the American worker.

This is not governance. This is theft. And those responsible must be made to answer for it.

The restructuring of the federal government must begin with an unflinching, merciless audit of every agency, every program, and every dollar spent. Redundant agencies must be consolidated or eliminated entirely. Wasteful subsidies must be stripped away, and programs that serve no function other than to perpetuate bureaucracy must be abolished. The government must be rebuilt not as a bloated, aimless behemoth, but as a streamlined force for national progress, one that invests in the people rather than extracts from them.

A core pillar of this restructuring is the implementation of public banking and financial sovereignty. For too long, the government has been at the mercy of private banking institutions, borrowing at interest when it could be financing itself. The creation of a national public banking system will not only eliminate the need for costly borrowing but will ensure that public funds are reinvested directly into the nation rather than into the pockets of foreign lenders and financial elites. A government-owned financial system will provide low-cost loans for infrastructure, small businesses, and local investment while systematically ending the parasitic relationship between Wall Street and Washington.

Additionally, the government must break its addiction to foreign debt and deficit spending. This is not merely a matter of fiscal policy—it is a matter of national survival. A nation that cannot fund its own needs without borrowing from adversaries is not a sovereign nation at all; it is a hostage, a debtor whose fate is no longer its own. Every dollar borrowed from a foreign power is a dollar surrendered, a dollar that weakens America’s position, a dollar that shifts control away from the people and into the hands of those who would see the United States diminished. This is not economics—it is servitude, and it must end.

For decades, politicians—spineless, short-sighted, and utterly devoid of discipline—have treated borrowing as the default solution to every challenge, kicking the financial burden down the road to future generations, as if debt is an abstract problem rather than an economic time bomb. They have sold the nation’s sovereignty piece by piece, funding programs, wars, and wasteful initiatives with money that does not belong to us, enriching foreign creditors while burdening American taxpayers with the interest. This is not governance—it is betrayal. And that betrayal has a price.

Under the Debt Buyback & National Debt Elimination Act, the United States will rip the leash from the hands of foreign creditors and ensure that no foreign power wields financial leverage over the republic. Every foreign-held Treasury bond, every debt instrument that gives another nation a say in our economic future, will be systematically repurchased and eliminated. This will not be done with more borrowing, more sleight of hand, or more financial trickery—it will be done through disciplined spending, strategic reinvestment, and a government finally forced to live within its means.

No longer will Washington be allowed to mortgage the future of its people to prop up its incompetence. Future administrations will be prohibited from engaging in reckless borrowing, stripping away the crutch of deficit spending that has enabled financial mismanagement for generations. No more borrowing to cover waste. No more debt to sustain bloat. No more IOUs written to foreign adversaries who delight in our dependence. Every dollar spent by the federal government will be held to a standard of economic sustainability, ensuring that this nation never again falls into the trap of fiscal servitude.

The stakes could not be higher. A government that borrows from its enemies is a government that has already lost. A government that cannot sustain itself without selling off its own sovereignty is a government that has forfeited its right to govern. The era of reckless debt accumulation is over. The age of economic self-reliance has begun. And those who stand in the way of this transformation—who defend the status quo, who profit from the current system of financial dependence—will find themselves standing on the wrong side of history. The American people will not be shackled by debt, and they will not tolerate leaders who would sell their country’s future to those who seek to control it.

Waste within military spending must also be confronted with an iron will. The Pentagon has routinely failed audits, lost track of trillions of dollars, and operated with a level of fiscal impunity that would bankrupt any private institution. National security is paramount, but waste is not defense—it is dereliction. The military budget must be restructured to prioritize readiness, efficiency, and modern warfare capabilities over redundant weapons programs and overpriced contracts. Fraudulent contractors must be prosecuted, and the Pentagon must be held to the same financial scrutiny as any other government entity.

Corporate welfare must be abolished. It is not capitalism. It is not free enterprise. It is a government-sponsored heist, a system designed to reward those with the best lobbyists rather than the best ideas. The current system does not reward innovation, entrepreneurship, or competition—it rewards political influence, backroom deals, and campaign donations. It is a rigged game where billion-dollar corporations, already drowning in profit, stretch out their hands not for opportunity, but for handouts, siphoning wealth from the American taxpayer while pretending they are too important to survive without government assistance. This is not a free market. This is corruption disguised as policy, and it must end.

Billion-dollar corporations receive subsidies they do not need, tax breaks they do not deserve, and government contracts that produce no return for the taxpayer. They are not struggling mom-and-pop shops in need of assistance to get off the ground. They are financial behemoths that manipulate lawmakers into granting them special privileges, all while they offshore jobs, evade taxes, and gut American industry to fatten their bottom lines. These corporate giants play both sides—they demand free-market policies when it suits them, but they are the first in line for government bailouts when their reckless greed catches up with them. It is theft in the highest form, a scheme where the wealthiest use their influence to extract even more wealth while hardworking Americans foot the bill.

Meanwhile, small businesses—the backbone of the American economy—struggle to survive under the weight of burdensome regulation and predatory financial institutions. The entrepreneur with a vision, the family-owned shop passed down for generations, the worker who dares to strike out on their own—all are crushed under the heavy hand of policies designed to favor the rich and the powerful. The banks will not lend to them. The tax code does not favor them. The regulations suffocate them. And yet, they are told to compete against corporate monopolies that have been given every possible advantage by a government that has sold itself to the highest bidder.

The Fair Trade & American Jobs Act Expansion will put an end to this betrayal. It will redirect financial incentives away from multinational conglomerates and toward domestic industry, ensuring that American businesses and workers—not corporate lobbyists—are prioritized in federal policy. It will strip away the perverse incentives that allow companies to collect taxpayer dollars while sending jobs overseas. It will eliminate the subsidies that allow billion-dollar corporations to artificially lower their costs and crush competition. It will ensure that tax breaks and financial support are directed where they belong—to the small businesses, the workers, and the industries that actually create jobs, invest in communities, and build a future for this nation.

This is not about punishing success. It is about ending the illusion that corporate handouts are necessary for economic growth. They are not. The only thing corporate welfare has ever done is enable a system where the wealthiest demand socialism for themselves while forcing capitalism onto everyone else. The American worker is not a pawn in this game. The American taxpayer is not an ATM for corporate greed. The time has come to sever the pipeline of public money flowing into private pockets, to end the era where government policy is dictated by those with the deepest wallets, and to restore a system where businesses succeed not because they are politically connected, but because they are good at what they do.

No more subsidies for billionaires. No more golden parachutes funded by the public. No more tax breaks for corporations that send jobs overseas. Let them compete. Let them innovate. Let them survive by the same rules they impose on everyone else. The era of corporate welfare is over. The age of real capitalism has begun.

Finally, the federal workforce itself must be made efficient, accountable, and responsive to the people it serves. Federal employees who fail in their duties must be removed, agencies that exist solely to sustain bureaucracy must be dismantled, and government payrolls must reflect the productivity expected in any other sector. Every dollar spent on public administration must be justified by the service it provides to the people.

A government that consumes more than it produces is a government destined to collapse. The time for excuses has ended. The American people will no longer tolerate a system where their sacrifices fund incompetence, where their tax dollars sustain waste, and where their government serves itself rather than them. The restructuring of the federal government is not an option—it is a necessity.

The only path forward is one of discipline, reform, and unwavering accountability. The era of bloated government excess, of unchecked spending, of politicians who grow rich while the nation rots, is over. The American people have paid for Washington’s indulgences long enough. They have watched as their hard-earned money has been funneled into black holes of bureaucratic waste, as failed programs are funded year after year, as career politicians ensure that the system remains broken because the dysfunction benefits them. But the people have had enough. The reckoning is here.

The bloated behemoth of inefficiency must be torn down, brick by brick, and in its place, a government worthy of the American people must be built. No more unaccountable agencies hoarding power with no results. No more budgets that balloon while the nation’s working class is told to sacrifice. No more politicians who write laws only to exempt themselves from their consequences. The waste must be ripped out, root and stem. The corruption must be exposed and eradicated. And those who have treated the people’s trust as nothing more than a tool for their own gain must face the full force of accountability.

Washington will no longer be a refuge for waste, corruption, and political indulgence. The days of the ruling class enriching themselves while America declines are finished. The halls of government will no longer serve as a marketplace for influence-peddling, for taxpayer-funded luxuries, for endless committees that do nothing but generate reports no one reads. The business of government will be to serve the people, not itself. And those who fail in that mission will not be given a chance to fail again.

And those who stand in the way of this reform—who defend the inefficiency, who protect the waste, who profit from the dysfunction—will find themselves swept aside, made irrelevant by a nation that has awakened to its own strength. Let them resist. Let them mock. Let them cling to their dying privileges and their crumbling system of self-preservation. It will not save them. The American people will not be denied. They have seen through the lies. They have felt the betrayal. And they are done waiting for Washington to fix itself. They will demand change. They will enforce it. They will purge the parasites who feed off their labor and restore a government that functions with the discipline, efficiency, and accountability that every American deserves.

The American people will accept nothing less than a government that is lean, effective, and, above all, accountable. This is not a suggestion. This is not a debate. This is a warning. Reform or be removed. Serve the people or be discarded. The era of waste is over. The age of responsibility has begun. And those who cannot stand in the light of that truth will be cast aside into the irrelevance they so richly deserve. The time for talk has passed. The time for action is now. The nation will not wait. And it will not forgive those who try to stand in its way.

The time for patience has ended. The time for half-measures is over. The American people have waited, they have trusted, they have given Washington every opportunity to correct its course, and in return, they have been met with nothing but deception, stagnation, and betrayal. The political elite have mistaken the patience of the people for passivity. They have mistaken their resilience for resignation. They have miscalculated, and now their reckoning has arrived.

The machine of government—bloated, corrupt, and incapable—must be dismantled. The era of inefficiency, of unaccountable bureaucracy, of reckless spending that robs the present and mortgages the future must come to an end. The American people do not exist to serve the government; the government exists to serve them. And yet, for decades, it has done the opposite. It has drained the wealth, the energy, and the hope of the people, feeding its own self-indulgence while the nation crumbles under the weight of mismanagement.

But no more. The people will no longer stand idle while Washington gorges itself on power, while special interests dictate policy, while career politicians play-act at governance without ever solving a single problem. They will take back what is theirs. They will demand a government that is lean, disciplined, and effective. And they will no longer accept the tired excuses of a system that exists only to perpetuate itself.

The two-party system has been the greatest enabler of this failure, the perfect mechanism to keep the American people divided, distracted, and disarmed. It has created a cycle of manufactured outrage, of hollow promises, of rigged contests where the only guaranteed losers are the citizens who cast their votes in good faith. It has turned elections into farce, policy into performance, and leadership into little more than a revolving door for incompetence. The time has come to break this duopoly, to rip apart the false choice, to dismantle the illusion that two parties—a system designed for their benefit, not ours—are the only path forward.

The system is not broken. It was built this way. And it is time to destroy it.

The American people must rise. They must reject the false narratives, the empty rhetoric, the illusion of choice that has been imposed upon them. They must seize their government back from those who have failed them, back from the bureaucrats, the lobbyists, the corporations, and the politicians who have mistaken power for entitlement.

The next battle begins here: The Two-Party System is Failing America. And it must be torn down.