Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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SIX
.. 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.[THAT'S SIX, PULLING NUMBERS OUT OF HIS ASS] Employee pay is one of the largest shares of government waste because of the sheer number of people that are on the payroll.[MORE ASS-GENERATED NUMBERS] 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.
Wow. Instead of wanting meaningful, stable, fairly administered jobs for Americans you want everyone to be just as miserable, uncertain, and angry as you?
That's fucked up.
I reiterate: if there is waste in Federal employment, it's a MANAGEMENT problem. You have an ignorant view of government employment.
You think that government employees can't be laid off? When our agency faced a serious budget crunch, it laid off 300 of 1,000 employees.
If there is one flaw in government employment, it's the difficulty of firing employees. You have to prove you're firing for cause. It's a huge multi-step process that requires reams of documentation.
But, strangely, you won't find that requirement in any union-negotiated contract. It's an HR requirement... once again, a management problem.
*****
But if you want to know where REAL waste comes from....
https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/reports-statements/financial-report/st
atement-of-net-cost.html
What does HHS (RFK's new bailiwick) do with its $1.9 trillion budget? I dunno... you tell me
https://www.hhs.gov/about/budget/fy2024/index.html
Waste comes from Medicare ($1.4 trillion) being prohibited from bargaining for best prices for prescription medicine.
https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/fy-2024-budget-in-brief.pdf
Social Security ($1.5 trillion)
Raise the threshold so that wealthy people pay more into the system. Social Security payments ... they're not extravagant. But the database seriously needs to be cleaned up.
DoD ($1.1 trillion)
The F35, for example, cost $400 billion... and counting. The DoD has failed every one of its last 7 audits. Thats $ to the MIC, not soldiers or staff.
Interest ($1 trillion)
Anyway, poke thru the budget. I'm sure you'll see a lot of pork.
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Quote:Why would I bother with you? 6ix, there are ten times worse Trumptards than you living next door to me. I know the DIRTY SECRETs of dozens of Trumptards who are modern-day manifestations of all the wickedness of the worst Confederates from the 1860s.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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.
What is more interesting is why these Trumptards sincerely believe with their whole hearts that they are "good" people, wholesome and pure on the outside, despite being nothing but evil on the inside, just like slave-owning Confederates once believed themselves to be righteous and deserving to ascend to the Kingdom of Heaven. Here is a little explanation in the abstract:
Heather Cox Richardson | Feb 15, 2025
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-15-2025
After World War II, the vast majority of Americans—Democrats and Republicans alike—agreed that the federal government should regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, promote infrastructure, and protect civil rights. But not everyone was on board. Some big businessmen hated regulations and the taxes necessary for social welfare programs and infrastructure, and racists and religious traditionalists who opposed women’s rights wanted to tear that “liberal consensus” apart.
They had no luck convincing voters to abandon the government that was overseeing unprecedented prosperity until the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decision permitted them to turn back to an old American trope. That ruling, which declared segregation in the public schools unconstitutional, enabled opponents of the liberal consensus to resurrect the post–Civil War argument of former Confederates that a government protecting Black rights was simply redistributing wealth from hardworking white taxpayers to undeserving Black Americans.
That argument began to take hold, and in 1980, Republican president Ronald Reagan rode it to the White House with the story of the “welfare queen,” identified as a Cadillac-driving, unemployed moocher from Chicago’s South Side (to signal that the woman was Black). “She has 80 names, 30 addresses, 12 Social Security cards and is collecting veteran’s benefits on four non-existing deceased husbands,” Reagan claimed. “And she is collecting Social Security on her cards. She’s got Medicaid, getting food stamps, and she is collecting welfare under each of her names.” The woman was real, but not typical—she was a dangerous criminal rather than a representative welfare recipient—but the story illustrated perfectly the idea that government involvement in the economy bled individual enterprise and handed tax dollars to undeserving Black Americans.
Republicans expanded that trope to denigrate all “liberals” of both parties, who supported an active government, claiming they were all wasting government monies. Deregulation and tax cuts meant that between 1981, when Reagan took office, and 2021, when Democratic president Joe Biden did, about $50 trillion moved from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. But rather than convincing Republican voters to return to a robust system of business regulation and restoring taxes on the wealthy and corporations, that transfer of wealth seemed to make them hate the government even more, as they apparently were convinced it benefited only nonwhite Americans and women.
That hatred has led to a skewed idea of the actions and the size of the federal government. For example, Americans think the U.S. spends too much on foreign aid because they think it spends about 25% of t
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
SIX
.. 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.[THAT'S SIX, PULLING NUMBERS OUT OF HIS ASS] Employee pay is one of the largest shares of government waste because of the sheer number of people that are on the payroll.[MORE ASS-GENERATED NUMBERS] 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.
Wow. Instead of wanting meaningful, stable, fairly administered jobs for Americans you want everyone to be just as miserable, uncertain, and angry as you?
That's fucked up.
I reiterate: if there is waste in Federal employment, it's a MANAGEMENT problem. You have an ignorant view of government employment.
You think that government employees can't be laid off? When our agency faced a serious budget crunch, it laid off 300 of 1,000 employees.
If there is one flaw in government employment, it's the difficulty of firing employees. You have to prove you're firing for cause. It's a huge multi-step process that requires reams of documentation.
But, strangely, you won't find that requirement in any union-negotiated contract. It's an HR requirement... once again, a management problem.
*****
But if you want to know where REAL waste comes from....
https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/reports-statements/financial-report/st
atement-of-net-cost.html
What does HHS (RFK's new bailiwick) do with its $1.9 trillion budget? I dunno... you tell me
https://www.hhs.gov/about/budget/fy2024/index.html
Waste comes from Medicare ($1.4 trillion) being prohibited from bargaining for best prices for prescription medicine.
https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/fy-2024-budget-in-brief.pdf
Social Security ($1.5 trillion)
Raise the threshold so that wealthy people pay more into the system. Social Security payments ... they're not extravagant. But the database seriously needs to be cleaned up.
DoD ($1.1 trillion)
The F35, for example, cost $400 billion... and counting. The DoD has failed every one of its last 7 audits. Thats $ to the MIC, not soldiers or staff.
Interest ($1 trillion)
Anyway, poke thru the budget. I'm sure you'll see a lot of pork.
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I never said that government employees can't be laid off.
Just that a vast majority of them are unnecessary and work in departments that are unnecessary.
They will now simply be removed. Like it or don't like it.
And if the media didn't talk about it every day, I have very little doubt that you wouldn't even be aware it was happening because it wouldn't impact your life in the slightest.
And yeah. You're goddamned right. They can come down here with me and work for shit wages and zero benefits like the rest of us do. Nobody inside our government gave one single fuck when all of this happened to us, and some of them were even partially responsible for it.
Reality sucks. Like it or don't like it.
But don't ever ask me to shed tears for somebody else who gets their livelihood taken away in America. That shit is just your average Tuesday for the vast majority, after the American Baby Boomers had a real nice ride via the greatest standard of
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SIX
yeah. You're goddamned right. They can come down here with me and work for shit wages and zero benefits like the rest of us do. Nobody inside our government gave one single fuck when all of this happened to us,
Wow, you pretend to mind-read all of those government employees??? You want everyone to be miserable?
That's stupid, and you're fucked up.
Stop pretending to be “righteous“. You're just petty and vindictive.
Quote:Politicians, son. Politicians of both parties. They're not "government employees". They're elected officials. Know the difference.
and some of them were even partially responsible for it.
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SIX
yeah. You're goddamned right. They can come down here with me and work for shit wages and zero benefits like the rest of us do. Nobody inside our government gave one single fuck when all of this happened to us,
Wow, you pretend to mind-read all of those government employees??? You want everyone to be miserable?
I want everyone to be on the same playing field. Nothing more. Nothing less.
It sucks that the playing field not funded by $37 Trillion worth of debt is SHIT.
I didn't fucking make it that way.
Tough titty for everyone.
Anybody who hasn't already been through it once or ten times by now is in for some shit.
Buckle up.
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Quote:Life is hard for tens of millions of Trumptards because they are mentally unstable. Stephen Miller should be fired because he is ill, but his boss is even more sick, so Miller stays:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Reality sucks. Like it or don't like it.
But don't ever ask me to shed tears for somebody else who gets their livelihood taken away in America. That shit is just your average Tuesday for the vast majority, after the American Baby Boomers had a real nice ride via the greatest standard of living that any race or nationality of people in the history or future of the world will ever know.
Stephen Miller Loses His Cool on Fox News
Miller is a key architect of Trump’s hardline immigration policies.
Miller threw around insults after being challenged on Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which is intended for wartime.
By Erkki Forster | Mar. 17 2025 6:05PM EDT
https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-miller-loses-his-cool-on-fox-new
s-absolute-moron/
Stephen Miller threw a veritable hissy fit on Fox News Monday after a host questioned whether Donald Trump’s invocation of wartime authority to deport migrants would hold up legally.
During an interview with The Story host Martha MacCallum on Monday, Miller was asked about MSNBC pundit Andrew Weissmann’s argument that the president should not be allowed to invoke an 18th-century law to deport migrants because it was intended for wartime use. Instead of addressing the point, Miller launched into a tirade.
“First of all, Andrew Weissmann is an absolute moron,” Miller fumed. “He is a moron, and he is a fool, and he’s a degenerate. Andrew Weissmann has devoted his career to putting innocent Americans in jail, taking away their civil liberties.”
Stephen Miller is a key architect of Trump’s hardline immigration policies.
Forgetting the original question, Miller fixated on Weissmann’s record as a former prosecutor who worked on Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“He was involved in the Mueller coup against a democratically elected president, Donald J. Trump,” Miller said, before shouting, “Weissmann should never be on TV anywhere! He should hang his head in eternal shame for what he’s done to this country!”
As MacCallum attempted to regain control of the conversation, Miller—a key architect of Trump’s hardline immigration policies—continued railing against Weissmann and defending Trump’s legally questionable use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants over the weekend.
“You can call Weissmann names, and he can call you names, and that’s what’s great about living in America,” MacCallum interjected with an exasperated smirk, only for Miller to cut her off again.
“This is a tip for Weissmann!” Miller yelled. “I will defend American lives working for President Trump, and Andrew Weissmann can defend illegal alien rapists, terrorists, and predators! I’ve chosen my side!”
It’s the second time in a month that a TV anchor has grappled with an out-of-control Miller.
Last month, CNN host Brianna Keilar had to ask a hysterical Miller to “calm down” in a live interview after he blew up while trying to defend Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
On Monday, a federal judge ordered the White House to explain why it defied a court order by deporting the Venezuelan migrants, whom Trump claims are violent members of the Tren de Aragua gang.
In a direct challenge to the judiciary, the administration argued Monday afternoon that the judge’s orders were “not enforceable.”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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March 17, 2025 in PC Magazine
The $42.5 billion Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program is being shifted from fiber to Musk’s Starlink, which is a slower service at a higher price to the customers, but Elon Musk benefits so it is great.
Lawmakers have raised alarm bells about the revamp after The Wall Street Journal reported that Starlink could receive as much as $20 billion in subsidies, up from a mere $4 billion.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/us-official-blasts-trumps-broadband-funding
-shift-from-fiber-to-starlink
The Winds of Change are filling Musk’s bank account.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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SIX, going after Federal workers is penny ante shit.
There are roughly 3 million Federal workers. Roughly half of them make appx $75,000 a year. A lot of those are nurses, technicians, doctors and so forth associated with VA.
Those are not astonishingly high wages for nurses, doctors, techs, and so forth.
By Department, the largest employer is VA, with about 486,000 employees. But the figures are misleading, bc if you combine the Army, Navy, Air Force, and DoD, which are listed individually, you get a total of appx 763,000 employees. Between obligations to past servicemembers and current servicemembers and military programs, the military takes up a whopping 38% of employees.
Total in wages and salaries is about $450 billion. Sounds like a lot, but not compared to the current $6.8 TRILLION budget. Thats 6.6% of the total budget, if I have my figures correct.
Quote:I agree that Dept Education has done a piss-poor job, and should be abolished.
The smallest Cabinet-level department, with 4,245 workers, is the Department of Education.
But going after that, and not DoD ... that's penny ante shit. Low hanging fruit. The real savings are elsewhere.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/01/07/what-the-data-says-
about-federal-workers/#which-federal-departments-and-agencies-employ-the-most-people
Seeing as you're getting FREE MEDICAL CARE that my taxes pay for, you can hardly complain about poor benefits.
My advice, SIX, is that if you want to climb out of the low-wage/ no wage hole that you're in? Become a certified EMT, respiratory therapist, nurse, or something like that. Or medical IT.
But better brush up on your people skills.
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You're not paying for shit.
The $37 Trillion dollar lie you want to keep funding is paying for it all.
I'm just getting my property taxes and all the other taxes I've ever paid back before I die.
Get fucked Sigs.
They're all getting laid off.
Boo hoo.
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Yeah.
Thanks for doing your part in adding to the debt. You're more expensive than the average govt employee. AND we don't even get any work out of you.
Time to kick you off the rolls.
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