23 hrs ago Elon Musk is a force of nature. He has assembled the greatest fortune (more than $450 billion) in the history of mankind with a maniacal work ethic and fearlessness in challenging orthodoxies or tradition. He is a one-man show at SpaceX, Tesla and X (formerly twitter), and is poised to dominate artificial intelligence. Mr. Musk is a marvelous combination of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison in the private sector. We should rejoice that Mr. Musk has taken his superhuman talents to focus on the ultra-bloated federal government, which is bankrupt by any private business metric: a $36 trillion national debt, chronic budget deficits exceeding $1 trillion, millions of deadweight federal employees and contractors, and sub-mediocrity as the workplace ethos. × This page requires Javascript. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. 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