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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]to the muskrats,

I have worked as a contractor for multiple government agencies.

Every agency is filled with waste.  Every agency.

And every federal worker will say they are working so hard, every federal worker.

[b]Meanwhile they never work on weekends, or work late during the week.   They will be there from 7 to 3:15 and do the absolute minimum of work.   You could fire 50% of the workers and the agency will work BETTER!. [/b]

Be respectful and be kind, but most of america wants significant reductions in the waste in government.

for every action, think, is it fair for a single parent with a child, struggling to make ends meet, have their taxes go to this federal mission.   stop the waste, help the middle class , that is being kind and respectful. [/quote]

I've been married to a federal worker for 25 years and I wish that were true. He works almost every weekend at home, he's had to go into the office more weekend than I can count, he's worked on vacations, he loses some of his PTO every year because he can't take it all, he didn't get to take any paternity leave with our second kid...  And he could be making 3-4x his government salary in the private sector, because he is capped like all federal workers--he didn't even get a raise for many years because the federal schedule didn't budge. So I do mean this most sincerely, f*ck you and everyone else who thinks like you and/or voted for Trump. [/quote]

+100 .  All of my family members who are federal workers work more than the required hours and aren't eligible for overtime pay because of their pay grade.  They are professional, responsible and passionate about the work they do.  This constant accusing ALL government workers of being lazy is getting old and trite.  Surely there must be a more humane way to keep the talented people who are invested in their jobs and not insult them by calling them "low productivity."[/quote]

Agreed.

The sad thing is that of course there is waste in federal government. Of course there are people or even divisions that are not productive or get mired in bureaucracy. There are also myriad inefficiencies that result from bad processes, inadequate or obsolete technology, or cultural issues. This is true in any organization, much less one as large as the fed. If Trump and Musk approached the project of identifying waste in government and fixing it, with curiosity and optimism, I actually think (in theory) they could do good.

But they are starting from the premise that federal workers are de facto lazy and federal regulations are de facto bad, and are making cuts and seizing control based on to on evidence of waste or inefficiency, but political ideology. Is USAID a particularly wasteful agency? Nope, and in fact because it attracts people who are particularly passionate about the work that it does, you find remarkably hardworking people there. In terms of ROI, it's very hard to calculate the benefit it has to the US in terms of spreading goodwill and encouraging democratic, pro-US ideals abroad. Yet this is where Musk began.

It tells you everything you need to know.[/quote]

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