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“I’ll come back when Trump is in jail, and the GOP are not in office”
I don't understand how Trump is firing so many people and still spending a lot more money than previous presidents?
Employee salaries make up like 5% of the federal budget
Because he picked a single apple off the highest part of the tree, instead of the low hanging fruit that the DoD/Pentagon currently has on full display.
Climbed right past them, all the way to the top, to pick the smallest fucking apple that hurts the most people.
Hurting people was always the point.
Doesn’t help that dod pentagon is so big because the USD is so strong. Kinda bad for national defense if the dollar loses value.
Doesn’t help that dod pentagon is so big because the USD is so strong. Kinda bad for national defense if the dollar loses value.
Looks at the USD forex over the last month. Umm, I think I have some bad news...
To answer the question you wrote:
I don't understand how Trump is firing so many people and still spending a lot more money than previous presidents[; explain] ?
It costs money to move or get or toss people. Doge is spending a LOT on this 'churn' cost with no idea whom it should fire and why it shouldn't fire so many. Because they're kids led by an idiot, and not much comprehension in the group.
So they pay severance and kick the people out with no transition. And planes fall out of the sky. And when they realize they fucked up, or the courts tell them how they fucked up, they need to beg people to come back. I think they do not get their severance money back.
Dotcoms trying to run a gov is just tragic comedy.
It would be prohibitively expensive to bring me back. I'd be paying taxes in the top bracket and my signing bonus would be 7 figures.
Increases in defense spending and increases in tax cuts for the rich (which isn't really spending more, but reduces government revenue which thereby increases budget deficits.
It wasn't about cutting spending, DOGE has three objectives:
I'm gonna need to see the math on that second point.
They are currently trying to blackmail immigrants to self-deport. And apparently some citizens. They are also sanctioning employers of prominent public figures they don't like (at least one law firm). They are blackmailing universities who don't help oppress protestors. It's a matter of perspective, but they are 100% using that data to threaten others to silence critics.
You could argue it on a technicality if you don't like that definition of blackmail but it's an apt enough word for colloquial use.
You forgot increases in travel expenses so that he can line his heavily inflated golf club coffers with lovely taxpayer lucre.
Increases in other contracts that funnel tax money into oligarc pockets but provide no value to tax payers, decrease in revenue collected to offset expenses due to IRS cuts and tax code changes, and the other big one is from judicial fund settlements that have already surpassed pre trump levels.
Trump’s a s*** show
FTFY
Career Transition workshops after you resign... Lol capitalist are some of the dumbest people. You don't want people that already resigned to actually leave, but don't improve working condition and pay. Just a few meetings about how shitty the job market is and how leaving would turn your old job into hell on earth. My two we resignation would quickly become two weeks of doing fuck all but work.
Lol eat shit loser. Should have thought of that before you got in bed with a fascist.
One example given by the employee included an announcement by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy that workers needed to obey a dress code.
"why are people leaving?!" /s
I’d have a hard time returning/might stay away out of spite/principal.
I’d return for a significantly higher salary, then spend most of my time leveraging that for even more in the private sector.
DOGE Strikes Again!
Employees facing resignation have been forced to attend a series of "career transition" workshops, described as “insulting.”
I would immediately look into how the contract was awarded for those workshops. I'll bet Elon gave them to a friend in a no-bid fashion, at a grossly inflated price. Efficiency!
The vast majority of offers are said to come from employees at the Federal Aviation Administration. [...] A department spokesperson told Politico [...] that employees who perform critical safety work are exempt. “Our teams are layered with redundancies to ensure efficiency initiatives will not compromise safety,”
Really? Cause that's really not the image they've been projecting.
"It feels like it’s intended to tell us we’re being dramatic or that we’re not professional enough to go through turmoil and remain detached and completely calm. It feels out of touch,” an anonymous employee said
Ri-ight. Because when I think of hysterical federal employees, the first group that comes to my mind is the FAA....
Department of Transportation?