21 February, 2025 by Eric Dunkelberger

It’s been an extremely busy week, this being the fifth week of President Trump’s second term in office. Thus far, most of the Cabinet positions have been confirmed. The Secretaries are hard at work and the Deep Swamp creatures are panicking! The supportive DemCommunists are showing themselves as the rats they are, being forced to “justify” the huge amounts of graft, corruption or pay-offs. The Sewer Stream Media is carrying the load of manure for them as well. Doge, to date, has found over $120,000,000,000 worth of fraud, etc. The big fraudsters are still to come!

There is a proposal on the table, an idea possibly from Elon Musk himself, whereby 20% of funds found be given back to the American taxpayers. Now, to be honest, I was thinking that money ($5000 keeps getting mentioned) would come in handy, especially after the years of Bidenflation! After visions of things for which I would spend the money went through my mind, I began to think further. The whole idea of finding the misused funds and regaining access to them was to bring down the National Debt. As a reminder, our National Debt is still $36.5T ($36,500,000,000,000) and the interest we pay on that sum is over $1T. The annual budget of the Defense Department is over $100B less. In other words, as much as we would like that extra money in our pockets, it would be better to apply it to the National Debt, as originally planned. Let’s face it; that money would last most of us a couple of months, giving fleeting pleasure, then we’re back to worrying about the Debt. True, the Consumer Price Index might go up, but it wouldn’t really cause inflation to decline.

Another proposal, more than likely from Elon too, is to video a tour of the gold in Ft. Knox. This would truly be intriguing. On the other hand, I’ve seen way too many movies (Goldfinger comes to mind) of efforts to steal the gold out of the Federal Depository at Ft. Knox. Add to that the memory of Geraldo Rivera’s revealing of Al Capone’s vault. After a huge build up, the vault was pretty much empty. It was a big disappointment! Imagine, if they go into Ft. Knox and find the gold gone, or some of it missing. We know from the 1950’s how much gold is supposed to be there. In 1973, They just opened the gate and looked in and, after a peek-a-boo glance, claimed it was all there! Just think, how fast would the economy crash if there was a full audit and it came up short? Real short? Whether or not there’s a video of it, there will be adverse effects. If it’s on video, it will be instantaneously seen. Given the corruption of the Swamp, both inside and outside of the Government, it wouldn’t surprise me that some or all of the gold is gone. I just dread the pain it will cause. But, then again, that’s all the Deep Swamp is good for; causing pain!