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Heartlanders are mostly frugal people – and the monied or wealthy among them … well, they didn’t get there by spree spending. The adage “waste not, want not” is always in the back of the mind, and when DOGE began uncovering the doozies of wasteful government spending, there wasn’t a still tongue at the Foxhole Pub in Williamsport, Indiana – The Crossroads of America, if they do say so themselves. Also on the docket of political talk was the storming of Europe by Vice President JD Vance. This hillbilly’s elegy is far from complete.
DOGE in Action
When President Trump reactivated and renamed the US Digital Services (USDS) into DOGE and put Elon Musk and his minions in charge of rooting out federal waste, middle America knew Trump…
