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I doubt very much that libraries are going anywhere. 1/4 of Team Trump's messaging is how stupid we've become as a nation because the Department of Education made everyone retarded. I don't see how closing all the libraries down two weeks later is going to help that messaging. I believe this is just more Legacy Media fearmongering.
My prediction, and though I've been wrong before but I'm usually not, is that they're just unearthing everything right now and when they put the pieces back there will be a new agency in charge of this or it will be in the purview of a new or already existing agency where those systems and money will be streamlined and all the waste will be cut out.
This is SixSigma. This is what our government has needed for generations.
It sucks when you're on the receiving end of it, I know. But I don't feel sorry about it when we've been employing people for decades that we can't afford to employ. We're $37 trillion in debt and it now costs us nearly $75,000 in debt per second to keep up this illusory world we're living in.
Our government spends nearly 10 times per second in debt that it costs me to pay for everything I need to live in a year.
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Our debt didn't accrue from Federal workers or libraries. You're being distracted by chaff being thrown into the air.
Maybe Trump and Elon are working on big-ticket items in the background (military, Medicare, Social Security, ACA etc) and just tossing out meaningless red meat "victories" to keep rabid antiDems happy. But so far, the only meaningful victories are
Closing the southern border (deportation needs more $$$ to be effective)
Closing USAID
Ending DEI policies
Dismissing and revoking security clearances of high level deep state operatives
NONE OF THAT IS DIRECTLY BUDGETARY.
The amount of $ being saved right now is trivial. I expect that, in future, once peple are required to start filling out those forms about who they're paying, and why, they'll be a lot less willing to splash money around.
Stop being so rabidly pro-Trump. Not everything that he does is golden, and some of the stupid stuff is to satisfy people like you, who expect to see Big Things every day.
BTW, Trump (or Elon, hard to tell) is deliberately targeting unions. But in my experience as an upper level supervisor in a government agency, dysfunction was a MANAGEMENT and POLITICAL problem (we were run by a Board of politicians)..
You read any agency contract, and the first thing spelled out is MANAGEMENT RIGHTS, including the right to determine programs, budget, and hire and fire.
We all knew who was pulling their weight, and who wasn't.
We all knew which manager was padding their staff budgets.
We all knew which programs were doomed to fail, set by political agendas that had nothing to do with our essential mission. (Pollution trading comes to mind.)
I think that we could have run the place better than management.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Our debt didn't accrue from Federal workers or libraries. You're being distracted by chaff being thrown into the air.
It absolutely did. Not the libraries, but the Federal workers. There are 10 times as many people working for the government than we need to be employing. Employee pay is one of the largest shares of government waste because of the sheer number of people that are on the payroll. They are all paid twice as much for the work they'd get in the public sector, they have the absolute best benefits packages on the planet, and they have retirement plans that we can't pay for.
That ends now.
They'll be fine. They can come work with us plebs and downsize they way they live.
We get laid off all the time in the private sector, so 90% or more of us under 50 years old have already been laid off at least once if not many times. This is just the way nearly everyone who isn't a government employee lives in America.
Ain't nobody going to shed any tears for them no matter what they choose to do now.
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Quote:Signym, you and 6ix, Trump and Putin, don't stop lying. I know how people like you came to be this way because Trumptards are common in Texas and I watched many grow from obnoxious children into untrustworthy and dishonest adults. (Many with money problems because they are untrustworthy and dishonest . . . They can't see the connection between what they are and what happens to them.)
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Says SECOND, who threatens and defames ... and incites violence and civil war ... from behind a wall of anonymity.
Dox yourself.
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Oh, and I see you're gaslighting us again about the economy.Quote:whuch went to illegals
By standard measures such as job [growth]Quote:Unequally shared
and GDP growthQuote:Same problem
and the stock market,Quote:For some.
the US economy was in excellent shape
Yeah, the economy under Biden*. It was great. /snark
Trump’s mentor, Roy Cohn, never feared for his life while ripping off the IRS or, earlier in his destructive life, working with Senator Joe McCarthy to wreck the government. But what if an anonymous killer had hit Cohn with a shotgun blast for being a horrible person? Fast-talking Trump would not have a real-life example to emulate that in America you can say and do whatever you want if your lawyers are glib.
The small-fry Trumptards I know are like Roy Cohn and Trump, misbehaving because they do not fear society’s disapproval or the law. If Anonymous could help these depraved souls to see a connection between their bad behavior and their one fear, they wouldn’t defecate on decency as openly as they do. They might stop embezzling. They might stop cheating on taxes. They might not be as horrible as their habit. But it would require gut-gnawing fear to civilize them, the kind of fear that deer have of anonymous hunters.
Roy Cohn’s Disbarment and Death (Trump learned nothing from two impeachments because his relatives were on the jury. He won’t be inhibited by Libtards’ legal maneuvers. What method does that leave?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn#Disbarment_and_death
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:6ixStringJack is calling for the firing of 90% of Federal employees. If you want to fire 90% of government employees, start with the local government, then move to fire state employees.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Our debt didn't accrue from Federal workers or libraries. You're being distracted by chaff being thrown into the air.
It absolutely did. Not the libraries, but the Federal workers. There are 10 times as many people working for the government than we need to be employing. Employee pay is one of the largest shares of government waste because of the sheer number of people that are on the payroll. They are all paid twice as much for the work they'd get in the public sector, they have the absolute best benefits packages on the planet, and they have retirement plans that we can't pay for.
That ends now.
They'll be fine. They can come work with us plebs and downsize they way they live.
We get laid off all the time in the private sector, so 90% or more of us under 50 years old have already been laid off at least once if not many times. This is just the way nearly everyone who isn't a government employee lives in America.
Ain't nobody going to shed any tears for them no matter what they choose to do now.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
State and local governments employ 19.6 million people nationally, with the majority (14.2 million) working in local government. The U.S. federal government employs around 3 million people in total, with workers in departments like the Armed Forces, Postal Service, and the Department of Justice.
https://www.ringover.com/blog/largest-employers-us
How many people work for the federal government?
The federal government employs around 3 million people, making it the nation's 15th largest workforce.
Updated December 19, 2024 by the USAFacts team
As of November 2024, the federal government employed just over 3 million people. The number of federal employees has topped 3 million since September 2024. The last time the government could claim that many employees was in September 1994.
Federal employment numbers peaked at 3.4 million in 1990 and the most recent low was in 2014, with 2.7 million.
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-work-for-the-federal-gov
ernment/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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We’ve Officially Entered the Next Phase of Trump’s Dictatorship Era
By Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern | March 17, 2025 1:04 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/king-donald-trump-dictator
ship-deportations-court-orders.html
The Trump administration pushed forward into a new phase of the rolling national constitutional crisis over the weekend, reportedly defying two different federal court orders imposing limits on its deportation of immigrants without due process. First, immigrant authorities deported Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist at Brown University, despite a judge’s Friday order halting her removal. Second, authorities deported about 250 Venezuelan migrants, flouting another judge’s explicit directive to turn around American planes that hadn’t yet landed in El Salvador, where the migrants were being sent. The Justice Department claimed that it could not comply with the order barring Alawieh’s removal because it arrived too late. But the White House defended its defiance of the order prohibiting deportations of Venezuelans, insisting that the judge had no jurisdiction over the migrants—and that Trump holds absolute, unreviewable constitutional authority to expel noncitizens.
Another novel late-night claim of presidential power: On Monday, Donald Trump purported to reverse President Joe Biden’s pardons of Jan. 6 committee members. In a Truth Social post that came just after midnight, Trump claimed the pardons are now “VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT,” asserting the power to undo their clemency because Biden allegedly signed it “by Autopen.” (It is the official position of the executive branch, unchallenged by the courts, that autopen qualifies as a valid presidential signature.)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ixStringJack is calling for the firing of 90% of Federal employees. If you want to fire 90% of government employees, start with the local government, then move to fire state employees.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Our debt didn't accrue from Federal workers or libraries. You're being distracted by chaff being thrown into the air.
It absolutely did. Not the libraries, but the Federal workers. There are 10 times as many people working for the government than we need to be employing. Employee pay is one of the largest shares of government waste because of the sheer number of people that are on the payroll. They are all paid twice as much for the work they'd get in the public sector, they have the absolute best benefits packages on the planet, and they have retirement plans that we can't pay for.
That ends now.
They'll be fine. They can come work with us plebs and downsize they way they live.
We get laid off all the time in the private sector, so 90% or more of us under 50 years old have already been laid off at least once if not many times. This is just the way nearly everyone who isn't a government employee lives in America.
Ain't nobody going to shed any tears for them no matter what they choose to do now.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
State and local governments employ 19.6 million people nationally, with the majority (14.2 million) working in local government. The U.S. federal government employs around 3 million people in total, with workers in departments like the Armed Forces, Postal Service, and the Department of Justice.
https://www.ringover.com/blog/largest-employers-us
How many people work for the federal government?
The federal government employs around 3 million people, making it the nation's 15th largest workforce.
Updated December 19, 2024 by the USAFacts team
As of November 2024, the federal government employed just over 3 million people. The number of federal employees has topped 3 million since September 2024. The last time the government could claim that many employees was in September 1994.
Federal employment numbers peaked at 3.4 million in 1990 and the most recent low was in 2014, with 2.7 million.
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-work-for-the-federal-gov
ernment/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Great idea.
We can do both. Let's do it.
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Originally posted by second:
We’ve Officially Entered the Next Phase of Trump’s Dictatorship Era
By Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern | March 17, 2025 1:04 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/king-donald-trump-dictator
ship-deportations-court-orders.html
The Trump administration pushed forward into a new phase of the rolling national constitutional crisis over the weekend, reportedly defying two different federal court orders imposing limits on its deportation of immigrants without due process. First, immigrant authorities deported Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist at Brown University, despite a judge’s Friday order halting her removal. Second, authorities deported about 250 Venezuelan migrants, flouting another judge’s explicit directive to turn around American planes that hadn’t yet landed in El Salvador, where the migrants were being sent. The Justice Department claimed that it could not comply with the order barring Alawieh’s removal because it arrived too late. But the White House defended its defiance of the order prohibiting deportations of Venezuelans, insisting that the judge had no jurisdiction over the migrants—and that Trump holds absolute, unreviewable constitutional authority to expel noncitizens.
Another novel late-night claim of presidential power: On Monday, Donald Trump purported to reverse President Joe Biden’s pardons of Jan. 6 committee members. In a Truth Social post that came just after midnight, Trump claimed the pardons are now “VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT,” asserting the power to undo their clemency because Biden allegedly signed it “by Autopen.” (It is the official position of the executive branch, unchallenged by the courts, that autopen qualifies as a valid presidential signature.)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Yes. We are going to put Fauci in prison.
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Quote:There really is no reliable way to get through to Trumptards without being brutal: hit them in the face with a shotgun blast. Or firing them. Or canceling their contracts. Or their wives kicking them out. Trumptards can only weakly understand and more words seldom bring fuller enlightenment to a Trumptard. But someone else wrote the words for me. Maybe this time 6ix will comprehend.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Great idea.
We can do both. Let's do it.
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Park Service Employees at White House Were Exempted from Mass Firings
Park rangers for me, but not for thee
By Jimmy Tobias | Mar 17, 2025
https://www.publicdomain.media/p/park-service-employees-at-white-house
As the Trump administration fired hundreds of probationary Park Service employees in February, it spared a special subset from the purge — it exempted from the mass firings National Park Service staffers that help manage the White House and President’s Park.
Records viewed by Public Domain show that at least three NPS probationary employees at the White House, including park guides, received exemptions from the mass firings specifically on the grounds that they worked at the White House. The records were corroborated by an Interior Department source familiar with the matter, but who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation.
The National Park Service maintains the White House property and President’s Park. The NPS workforce there includes gardeners, guides, painters and maintenance staff. The Park Service, in a statement, said it does not comment on personnel matters. It did note, however, that NPS employees at the White House have security clearances.
In mid-February, in what has come to be known as the Valentine’s Day massacre, the Trump administration eliminated roughly 1,000 NPS probationary employees across the country. These employees served as rangers, guides, visitor center staffers, scientists, and more. The firings spanned the nation, from Valley Forge in Pennsylvania to California’s Yosemite. Particularly hit hard were places like Everglades National Park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, all supremely popular destinations that reportedly lost a dozen or more employees each. These firings were part of the broader effort, driven by Elon Musk’s DOGE, to decimate staffing at federal agencies in all parts of government.
But while the general American public was witnessing the sudden loss of large numbers of staff members at their favorite Park Service locations, the President and his visitors were spared the same experience at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The directive to exempt the NPS probationary staff at the White House came down to NPS from higher up in the Interior Department, according to the source.
The DOGE-driven mass firings may have been illegal. A federal judge in Northern California last Thursday ordered the Trump administration to immediately reinstate thousands of probationary employees across government, calling the administration’s justification for the terminations a “sham.” The Trump administration is appealing the order.
“It is a sad, sad day when our government would fire some good employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that’s a lie,” wrote U.S. District Judge William Alsup of President Trump’s actions. “That should not have been done in our country.” Among those to be reinstated are Park Service probationary staff.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:There really is no reliable way to get through to Trumptards without being brutal: hit them in the face with a shotgun blast.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Great idea.
We can do both. Let's do it.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
I can't figure out why you still haven't figured out who I am or where I live. All I used to hear about back in the day was you hiring private detectives to find out who Kiki and maybe others were. I've known who you are and where you live for probably 4 years now.
If ever you figure that one out, big scary tough dude guy man, come on over and we'll sort this out in person.
I'd say BYOB, but I don't reckon you'll be needing it where you're going.
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