The Federal government is the largest employer of VETs who are well trained, the most educated than any other U.S. employer. I posted education, reliability, and performance statistics a few years ago about our Veterans. The civilian sector was not even close. Also, many are from our elite military units (the most dangerous ones) work federal jobs after their service to our country. The only two people from this forum who had issues with U.S. military veterans were wildchild and Tony_Stark...both who never served and foreigners. Veterans from our military units (especially those from elite units) are the last people we want to make angry especially if they do not like immigrants...Elon Musk is a South African/Canadian. I've had run-ins with a few from my own unit who did not like me because I am a French American who immigrated to the United States from France as a child. Yet, if some were employed by the federal government when they then served in the military especially during combat...their jobs are protected by federal law when they return from duty. Also, disable veterans have "preference" for job retention if/when there's a layoff... If I'm not mistaken about the latter, the federal government are then required by law to find them another federal job of equal pay if it's a disable veteran. Yet, we already know Trump and Musk have a history of taunting and laughing at disable veterans. Ironically, Trump initiated a DEI program in 2019 to hire +20 people with physical disabilities to be trained as air traffic controllers (a federal job)...many not only passed their exams...they excel beyond those without physical disabilities. Trump then threw them under the bus when the U.S. Army Helicopter crashed into a civilian commercial airlines even though Trump did not know if any of those +20 disable people worked in D.C. at that airport. I'm not sure if they were included in the recent Musk firings because I thought that only involved those who were new on the job and still on probation. Also, several years ago, it was Trump who recommended to Musk to fire those Tesla employees who wanted to form a union. Trump then suggested that the fired employees be replaced with new employees at cheaper wages to save costs. Musk refused because they were his best employees and the most experienced. #chaos wrbtrader
State Department Completes Foreign Funding Review, Identifying 15,000 Grants Worth $60 Billion for Elimination
For Musk, DOGE is nothing more than a grift. He is trying to steer the Verizon contract and many other government contracts to himself. Now he is trying to direct the next-gen FAA air traffic technology upgrade contracts to himself while demanding retired air traffic controllers come back to work (due to the FAA upgrade problems he is creating). Just a reminder -- DOGE fired all the FAA employees involved in the next-gen FAA air traffic control upgrade. Elon Musk says upgrade of FAA’s air traffic control system is failing and SpaceX needs to take over Verizon’s contract https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/business/elon-musk-faa-air-traffic-control-failing-spacex/index.html
DOGE-y "savings". (MORNINGBREW) STAT Prime number: NOGE savings for DOGE Saul Loeb/Getty Images If a government contract is canceled but no money’s saved, does it make a sound? Per a report in the Associated Press yesterday, nearly 40% of the federal contracts axed by President Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are not going to save any money. That’s because the total value of those contracts has already been spent. “It’s like confiscating used ammunition after it’s been shot when there’s nothing left in it,” one expert in government contract law told the AP. The canceled contracts range from software that’s already been purchased to research studies that have already been granted. DOGE says it’s saved the government $65 billion so far, about 3% of Musk’s original goal of $2 trillion.—AE
Let's start with the mistake that Musk wants to blow over 30 million tax payer dollars every single week by forcing federal employees to submit what they did last week. Let's walk through some math. Suppose every federal employee did respond to Trump's email providing a summary of what they did that week. Most estimates state creating the summary takes each employee 15 minutes. The average federal government employee salary is $106,462 per year or about $51.18 per hour according to the latest figures. If there are 2.4 million civilian federal employees and each takes 15 minutes of time -- how much federal taxpayer money is spent to create these 2.4 million responses? 15 minutes of time is $12.80 --- multiplied by 2,400,000 employees equals $30,720,000 of tax payer money spent for no reasonable purpose. Yeah, and Musk wants to do this every week. DOGE now wants government workers to email their accomplishments on a weekly basis https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-second-productivity-email-federal-workers-more-soon-2025-2
We need to get rid of the useless government employees who dont contribute. Think of the rude and lazy DMV employee for perspective or the DEI department of a government agency.
DMV is privatized in my sunshiney state and we still pay higher and higher annual fees, plus even pay more for credit card use. And DEI are initiatives or policies, not depts silly dipchip.