Making the Federal Government Great Again & This is Still About Islam – Top 3 Takeaways, October 7th, 2025
Takeaway #1: It’s coming...
I think. Here we are entering day seven of the federal government shutdown. Also known as the seventh consecutive day that you wouldn’t have known that there’s a partial government shutdown unless you’d heard it in the news (or as Joel pointed out yesterday, potentially reading about it in your banking app – because ya know – your bank doesn’t give a rip you if you’re laid off in the real world, but if there’s a furloughed federal government employee...well gee). So actually, about that, using historical employment data, how many people do you think are laid off in the private sector during the average day in this country? The answer is 78,600. What that means is that every ten days there are more layoffs that happen in the private sector than all currently furloughed federal government employees. How often do you hear stories about this dynamic? Anyway, aside from that illustrative point that from certain banks to news media they evidently view federal government employees as being more important than you...there’s this. It may well be the case that the largest partial government shutdown in history, in terms of the scope of furloughed employees, ends up being the largest reduction in the size of the federal government’s bureaucracy in history. In yesterday’s Q&A I mentioned that I stumbled onto something that was potentially significant regarding whether President Trump may follow through with historic RIFs on this note of his from last week: I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent. I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. We never heard what came out of that meeting but based on what I uncovered yesterday it may well be coming. In case you missed what I found it was this... The Office of Management and Budget’s guide for furloughed employees is extensive – 65 pages in total. Notably, on page 50, there’s an entire section explaining that there may be resulting reductions in force that are implemented during the shutdown, and explaining the difference between reductions in force and furlough’s. The Warn Act, requires 60-day notifications for layoffs at the federal government level. It would seem as though that clock began ticking last week. In other words, this point is this. Whether President Trump comes out an says “X” number of employees will be fired as part of a permanent reduction in force or not has no bearing currently. The notice to all furloughed employees to begin the 60-day clock is already underway. And when I asked Eric Trump about this yesterday...he had this to say...
Takeaway #2: Yeah, I think he's planning to do exactly that.
It was on January 2nd, in my Top 3 Takeaways, the first of this year that I said this... <This country was founded with only 5 government agencies. Now we have 430. More government equals less freedom every time. Some agencies directly erode our rights, all agencies erode our personal financial freedom because we’re forced to pay for them. Our country went its first 137 years without a permanent income tax. How much are you forced to pay today? The fact is we don’t need 430 federal government agencies. How many of those 430 agencies do you think are really operating every day to make your life better? Do you think you could do better things with your money than hundreds of government agencies you couldn’t name if your life depended on it, or do you think all of those government agencies are doing better things with your money than you could? I’ve always used this as an example. I’d be willing to bet that if we locked all 535 members of congress in a room without internet for a day, gave them all a pen and a piece of paper and had them name as many government agencies as they could, most government agencies wouldn’t be named by a simple member of congress, and yet, due to baseline budgeting, that no one actually reads, they’re funded at our literal expense. We don’t need all of those agencies. It’s a choice. The fact is we don’t need to be forced to pay a third or more of what we make in income tax. It’s a choice.> What we’ve already proven is that more than a third of the entire federal government can be offline without it having any kind of a measurable impact on your life. Hopefully President Trump has made the choice to deliver historic downsizing of the federal government and to finish what DOGE started. Eric Trump seems to think so. That’s an encouraging sign. Speaking of which...
Takeaway #3: Two years later...
Two years ago today the most horrific attack on Jews since the Holocaust took place. 1195 Israelis were murdered in Hamas’s horrific terrorist attack with an additional 240 hostages taken. Two years later President Trump is working to broker what could be historic peace for the region. But the reality is this. It’s still about Islam when practiced under Sharia Law. How many Islamic terror attacks do you think have occurred around the world so far this year? The answer is 1,622,or an average of six per day. How many people do you think have been killed in these attacks this year? 10,401, or 37 people per day. These seldom make the news because they’re so common. The victims are usually religious minorities in Muslim majority countries. And it’s a reminder that even if a deal is brokered with Hamas, peace will never be guaranteed because peace isn’t what those practicing Sharia law seek. As the Pew Research Center has previously uncovered 74% of the world’s Muslim population is supportive of Sharia law, which among other things means no Jews, or you – unless you practice Sharia law too. Two years later we’re potentially close to the end of the Israel-Hamas war, but make no mistake – this is still about Islam which presents a daily threat to innocent people around the world.