August 6, 2025 • 12 mins
This exercise helps illustrate governments where there should be obvious DOGEing to do and that’s assuming that there wasn’t already built in waste, fraud and abuse.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to the Brian Mud Show and thank you for listening.
It's time for today's Top three takeaways. Helpful, useful, repeatable.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, Florida's Doge and the magic number. Pretty interesting breakdown
for you as I was diving into how our local
governments are performing, taking a look at kind of the
big picture that the Florida Doge team is looking at
before they're deciding, Hey, we're going into this government next.
(00:35):
So I'm going to break down our counties locally, tell
you what your county's magic number is. But first a
word from our president. Speaking of numbers. Of course, the
President fired the chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
on Friday after another massive revision to the jobs report.
He was out with CNBC yesterday, had this to say.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Just days before the election, and they put out numbers
that it was like the country was on fire, was
doing so well. And then they did a revision about
two weeks later, and the revision was down by almost
nine hundred thousand jobs.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
The jobs not so many, And of course the bigger
story behind all that that I've brought.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You, you only had.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Fifty nine percent of jobs that were created under the
Biden administration that went to Americans. Forty one percent of
the jobs creating this country during that time went to
those who commonly would but do you wat ch'ell?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Well, they would find a border patrol agent there at
the southern border, an agent beaten down by life in
the Biden administration, A see this when I see asylum.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
And then you would have the border patrol agent that
would you know, hand brochures, travel brochures really to the
asylum seeking the magic a word person and would you
like a five star in Manhattan? Yes, do that for
several months and then go to South Florida.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, yeah, that kind of thing, right.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
So anyway, speaking of numbers, not only are those that
record lows the asylum seeking types and those that are
actually crossing the border.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
What is your favorite number? You have a favorite number?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Joe?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I mean, I really don't ask me this earlier. I
feel like one time I was a kid and I
saw somewhere it said three. I'm like one of those
Sagittarius scroll things they used to sell. Oh god, I'm
talking about okay, astrology thing.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Plus I figured, okay, it's it's you know, part of
thirteen of course of Dan Marino Dolphin fans. Of course, yeah,
we'll go with three course. But it's not something I
really think about.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Three is not bad numbers. Think about it. When you
said it, I'm like, well, you know, Holy Trinity, it's
pretty good.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So I h I remember that from my dad. I
was thinking about numbers. I'm a dad. He was a
Mickey Mantle fan in New York. His number six. I
don't know if it's still as five. I should have
asked me you still care. It's been a long time
for me. I can't really say I've ever had a
favorite number. You know, I was thinking about it because
you do kind of like, well, what numbers have I
(03:28):
been associated with?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And when I played sports?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And I was always number one in baseball, but in
football I ranged anywhere from number twenty three to forty five.
And I think there are only two years where I
ever had the same number and it was so it
really wasn't a thing I was hung up on. When
people have asked me, I've said thirteen, and I say
(03:53):
that just to be a contrarian, because you have so
many people that are superstitious, and definitely not because of
damn randochell oh in my case, but no, just to like,
you know, for the people are superstitious.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I was kind of like going there, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
But anyway, if I were to be to be more
considered today, I was thinking about this yesterday, Mike. Well,
if I were just going to choose a number, what
would I go with? And the reason I was thinking
of the Holy Trinity with three joels. I was thinking
in biblical terms, like, you know what, the number twelve,
it's pretty good number. Got the twelve tribes of Israel,
got the twelve Apostles, and Tom Brady, which is about
(04:29):
the depth of your consideration, I can tell. So twelve
not going to be your favorite number. I think is
as safe to say, is that?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
By the way, also related, did you know that the
most popular number sided in surveys is the number seven.
Ten percent of Americans choose the number seven and the
reason why. The most common responses have included seven being everywhere,
seven days and a week, seven colors and a rainbow,
(05:00):
seven wonders of the world, slot machines for the people
who believe in the lucky things, you know, seven treaty
is a lucky number. So in any event as what
as dose teams are out and about across the state
dozing away in Alachua, Broward and Orange Counties. The magic
number to look for in local government budgets it's inflation
(05:21):
plus population growth. Inflation plus population growth. So Governor d
Santas cited the previous five years as an example of
what this state was looking into. For example, how local governments,
flush with cash from soaring property values and a strong economy,
have they been abusing taxpayer money just because it's been there,
(05:44):
it's been available. Hey, let's go spin on something as
opposed to cutting taxes to offset unneeded increases.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
So on that note, consider this.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Here's what the growth rate in county budgets has been
over the past five years. Taking a look at fit
twenty twenty one through twenty five. In Indian River County,
the budget has grown by twenty seven percent over that time,
saying Lucy twenty nine percent, Martin County budget has grown
by thirty seven percent, and Palm Beach County forty six percent.
(06:20):
Now here's the population growth rate for each during that time.
And by the way, I'm going to boil this down
so you don't have to sit there and like on
the fly, paying attention to not getting hit by the
person next to you, and trying to calculate this at
the same time. I'm just walking through this. I think
it's you know, if you hear your county and the number,
it might be interesting information for you. So the population
(06:43):
growth rate for each of these counties over that same
wind to have time, Indian River County nine percent. Saint
Lucy has been the biggest boomer by a lot, seventeen percent,
Martin County five percent, population growth, Palm Beach County seven percent.
So that's a lot of numbers, a lot of numbers though,
But I'm going to tie this all together now. One
(07:04):
last one before I do. The number is twenty four percent,
and that is the net Biden inflation rate over the
prior five years.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Which just has an aside.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You know, when I was putting this together for you yesterday,
I'm sitting there thinking, does is that just suck? I
mean everything associated with dementia, Joe, but just that a
buck in your pocket right now only has the buying
power seventy six cents compared to where we were five
years ago.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I would say that sucks. Yes, that's brutal, not really
it just.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
So, this is how you can tell if your state
in county governments are being more considerate of your money
or using it to grow the size of government. The
key to determining that number is to add the inflation
rate and population growth rate and subtract it from the
budget number. Okay, so take the inflation rate the population
(08:02):
growth rate, and then subtract that from the budget. When
you do that, these are the numbers that we see.
And by the way, a negative number is a good
number here.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Indian River County negative six percent. St.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Lucie County negative twelve percent, Martin County eight percent, Palm
Beach County fifteen percent. So this tells a very specific
story about how stating local governments are respecting your money.
Indian River and Saint Lucy are spending less on an
inflation and population adjusted basis than they were five years ago.
They've been relatively good stewards of your money. Martin County,
(08:42):
they've grown the size of the government relative to the
population by eight percent, not great. Palm Beach County much worse.
Fifteen percent more government on a relative basis than five
years ago. To this exercise helps illustrate governments where there
should be obvious dosing to do, and that's assuming that
(09:05):
there wasn't already built in waste broaden abuse. Keep in mind,
if they're just like every year they're engaged in waste
frauden abuse and it had been there over five years ago,
none of that's accounted for here. I'm just giving you
what's happening over the past five because again, that was
kind of the lay of the land that the state
said they were taking a look at in this evaluation process.
So my third takeaway for you today, DeSantis, he's walking
(09:28):
the talk. So now let's take a look at what's
happening with the State of Florida, right because we can
do the same exercise for the state government too. So
Florida's net number over that same five years is negative
nine percent, meaning the State of Florida is spending nine
percent less money on an inflation and population adjusted basis
(09:53):
compared to five years ago. Governor DeSantis, State of Florida, generally,
they are walking the talk. State has credibility on this
in comparison to the way the State of Florida has
handled taxpayer money. Palm Beach County performed twenty four percent
worse over the same period, with only Saint Lucy of
the local examples cited performing as well or better than
(10:14):
the state of respecting our tax dollars. And what's even
more remarkable in context when you think about the incredible
achievements that the state has accomplished here for this time,
like universal school choice for example, which, by the way,
think back to that.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I mean, remember how the oh it's way too, way
too expensive, way too what's the FBA guy locally, what's
his name? Way too expense, all those people I think
spar or something.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
His name Andrew Spark.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
There you go, yeah, I can't afford it. Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Not only have we afforded a jackwagon, but we also
have nine percent less government on a relative basis than
we did five years ago.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Back to you Penhead.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
So anyway, Florida ranks at or near the top and
gum efficiency. Every year, we spend two point six times less,
for example, than the least efficient state, which is New York,
while also maintaining the top economy of the country, and
with having ranked first or second in education each of
the past three years. So without a doubt, Florida the
(11:19):
best run state in the country. And this doge exercise
helps illustrate that point. So as local governments and leftist
DeSantis critics expressed frustration and concern over this doging process
that's underway, what they should be doing instead addressing why
the heck they're not running local governments anywhere nearly as
efficiently as the state is. Imagine, for example, if you
(11:42):
were to get a permanent twenty four percent tax break
in Palm Beach County, and that would only catch you
up to the state's level of efficiency over the past
five years, and that should help paint the picture about
what's potentially on the line here. So I said it
last week, I will say it again. Of these findings,
dojes please you know Palm Beach and Martin. And by
(12:05):
the way, when you're hearing, oh, they're not just targeting
blue county. Clearly it's not just blue counties because Martin
is a red county. They're not necessarily coming to Martin.
Yet these are ones I'm going out for them. I
know they should be though, right exactly
Welcome to the Brian Mud Show and thank you for listening.
It's time for today's Top three takeaways. Helpful, useful, repeatable.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, Florida's Doge and the magic number. Pretty interesting breakdown
for you as I was diving into how our local
governments are performing, taking a look at kind of the
big picture that the Florida Doge team is looking at
before they're deciding, Hey, we're going into this government next.
(00:35):
So I'm going to break down our counties locally, tell
you what your county's magic number is. But first a
word from our president. Speaking of numbers. Of course, the
President fired the chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
on Friday after another massive revision to the jobs report.
He was out with CNBC yesterday, had this to say.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Just days before the election, and they put out numbers
that it was like the country was on fire, was
doing so well. And then they did a revision about
two weeks later, and the revision was down by almost
nine hundred thousand jobs.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
The jobs not so many, And of course the bigger
story behind all that that I've brought.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You, you only had.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Fifty nine percent of jobs that were created under the
Biden administration that went to Americans. Forty one percent of
the jobs creating this country during that time went to
those who commonly would but do you wat ch'ell?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Well, they would find a border patrol agent there at
the southern border, an agent beaten down by life in
the Biden administration, A see this when I see asylum.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
And then you would have the border patrol agent that
would you know, hand brochures, travel brochures really to the
asylum seeking the magic a word person and would you
like a five star in Manhattan? Yes, do that for
several months and then go to South Florida.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, yeah, that kind of thing, right.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
So anyway, speaking of numbers, not only are those that
record lows the asylum seeking types and those that are
actually crossing the border.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
What is your favorite number? You have a favorite number?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Joe?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I mean, I really don't ask me this earlier. I
feel like one time I was a kid and I
saw somewhere it said three. I'm like one of those
Sagittarius scroll things they used to sell. Oh god, I'm
talking about okay, astrology thing.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Plus I figured, okay, it's it's you know, part of
thirteen of course of Dan Marino Dolphin fans. Of course, yeah,
we'll go with three course. But it's not something I
really think about.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Three is not bad numbers. Think about it. When you
said it, I'm like, well, you know, Holy Trinity, it's
pretty good.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So I h I remember that from my dad. I
was thinking about numbers. I'm a dad. He was a
Mickey Mantle fan in New York. His number six. I
don't know if it's still as five. I should have
asked me you still care. It's been a long time
for me. I can't really say I've ever had a
favorite number. You know, I was thinking about it because
you do kind of like, well, what numbers have I
(03:28):
been associated with?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And when I played sports?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And I was always number one in baseball, but in
football I ranged anywhere from number twenty three to forty five.
And I think there are only two years where I
ever had the same number and it was so it
really wasn't a thing I was hung up on. When
people have asked me, I've said thirteen, and I say
(03:53):
that just to be a contrarian, because you have so
many people that are superstitious, and definitely not because of
damn randochell oh in my case, but no, just to like,
you know, for the people are superstitious.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I was kind of like going there, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
But anyway, if I were to be to be more
considered today, I was thinking about this yesterday, Mike. Well,
if I were just going to choose a number, what
would I go with? And the reason I was thinking
of the Holy Trinity with three joels. I was thinking
in biblical terms, like, you know what, the number twelve,
it's pretty good number. Got the twelve tribes of Israel,
got the twelve Apostles, and Tom Brady, which is about
(04:29):
the depth of your consideration, I can tell. So twelve
not going to be your favorite number. I think is
as safe to say, is that?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
By the way, also related, did you know that the
most popular number sided in surveys is the number seven.
Ten percent of Americans choose the number seven and the
reason why. The most common responses have included seven being everywhere,
seven days and a week, seven colors and a rainbow,
(05:00):
seven wonders of the world, slot machines for the people
who believe in the lucky things, you know, seven treaty
is a lucky number. So in any event as what
as dose teams are out and about across the state
dozing away in Alachua, Broward and Orange Counties. The magic
number to look for in local government budgets it's inflation
(05:21):
plus population growth. Inflation plus population growth. So Governor d
Santas cited the previous five years as an example of
what this state was looking into. For example, how local governments,
flush with cash from soaring property values and a strong economy,
have they been abusing taxpayer money just because it's been there,
(05:44):
it's been available. Hey, let's go spin on something as
opposed to cutting taxes to offset unneeded increases.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
So on that note, consider this.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Here's what the growth rate in county budgets has been
over the past five years. Taking a look at fit
twenty twenty one through twenty five. In Indian River County,
the budget has grown by twenty seven percent over that time,
saying Lucy twenty nine percent, Martin County budget has grown
by thirty seven percent, and Palm Beach County forty six percent.
(06:20):
Now here's the population growth rate for each during that time.
And by the way, I'm going to boil this down
so you don't have to sit there and like on
the fly, paying attention to not getting hit by the
person next to you, and trying to calculate this at
the same time. I'm just walking through this. I think
it's you know, if you hear your county and the number,
it might be interesting information for you. So the population
(06:43):
growth rate for each of these counties over that same
wind to have time, Indian River County nine percent. Saint
Lucy has been the biggest boomer by a lot, seventeen percent,
Martin County five percent, population growth, Palm Beach County seven percent.
So that's a lot of numbers, a lot of numbers though,
But I'm going to tie this all together now. One
(07:04):
last one before I do. The number is twenty four percent,
and that is the net Biden inflation rate over the
prior five years.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Which just has an aside.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You know, when I was putting this together for you yesterday,
I'm sitting there thinking, does is that just suck? I
mean everything associated with dementia, Joe, but just that a
buck in your pocket right now only has the buying
power seventy six cents compared to where we were five
years ago.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I would say that sucks. Yes, that's brutal, not really
it just.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
So, this is how you can tell if your state
in county governments are being more considerate of your money
or using it to grow the size of government. The
key to determining that number is to add the inflation
rate and population growth rate and subtract it from the
budget number. Okay, so take the inflation rate the population
(08:02):
growth rate, and then subtract that from the budget. When
you do that, these are the numbers that we see.
And by the way, a negative number is a good
number here.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Indian River County negative six percent. St.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Lucie County negative twelve percent, Martin County eight percent, Palm
Beach County fifteen percent. So this tells a very specific
story about how stating local governments are respecting your money.
Indian River and Saint Lucy are spending less on an
inflation and population adjusted basis than they were five years ago.
They've been relatively good stewards of your money. Martin County,
(08:42):
they've grown the size of the government relative to the
population by eight percent, not great. Palm Beach County much worse.
Fifteen percent more government on a relative basis than five
years ago. To this exercise helps illustrate governments where there
should be obvious dosing to do, and that's assuming that
(09:05):
there wasn't already built in waste broaden abuse. Keep in mind,
if they're just like every year they're engaged in waste
frauden abuse and it had been there over five years ago,
none of that's accounted for here. I'm just giving you
what's happening over the past five because again, that was
kind of the lay of the land that the state
said they were taking a look at in this evaluation process.
So my third takeaway for you today, DeSantis, he's walking
(09:28):
the talk. So now let's take a look at what's
happening with the State of Florida, right because we can
do the same exercise for the state government too. So
Florida's net number over that same five years is negative
nine percent, meaning the State of Florida is spending nine
percent less money on an inflation and population adjusted basis
(09:53):
compared to five years ago. Governor DeSantis, State of Florida, generally,
they are walking the talk. State has credibility on this
in comparison to the way the State of Florida has
handled taxpayer money. Palm Beach County performed twenty four percent
worse over the same period, with only Saint Lucy of
the local examples cited performing as well or better than
(10:14):
the state of respecting our tax dollars. And what's even
more remarkable in context when you think about the incredible
achievements that the state has accomplished here for this time,
like universal school choice for example, which, by the way,
think back to that.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I mean, remember how the oh it's way too, way
too expensive, way too what's the FBA guy locally, what's
his name? Way too expense, all those people I think
spar or something.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
His name Andrew Spark.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
There you go, yeah, I can't afford it. Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Not only have we afforded a jackwagon, but we also
have nine percent less government on a relative basis than
we did five years ago.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Back to you Penhead.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
So anyway, Florida ranks at or near the top and
gum efficiency. Every year, we spend two point six times less,
for example, than the least efficient state, which is New York,
while also maintaining the top economy of the country, and
with having ranked first or second in education each of
the past three years. So without a doubt, Florida the
(11:19):
best run state in the country. And this doge exercise
helps illustrate that point. So as local governments and leftist
DeSantis critics expressed frustration and concern over this doging process
that's underway, what they should be doing instead addressing why
the heck they're not running local governments anywhere nearly as
efficiently as the state is. Imagine, for example, if you
(11:42):
were to get a permanent twenty four percent tax break
in Palm Beach County, and that would only catch you
up to the state's level of efficiency over the past
five years, and that should help paint the picture about
what's potentially on the line here. So I said it
last week, I will say it again. Of these findings,
dojes please you know Palm Beach and Martin. And by
(12:05):
the way, when you're hearing, oh, they're not just targeting
blue county. Clearly it's not just blue counties because Martin
is a red county. They're not necessarily coming to Martin.
Yet these are ones I'm going out for them. I
know they should be though, right exactly
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