Weird, I lost my previous comment. Not disagreeing with you, just wanted to let you know that there are some of us that are not the bad guys. We just do the work that no one else can or wants to do. As far as some of the rest of the agencies, absolutely they need to be gutted or eliminated. I can think of several that shouldn't exist and quite a few more that needs both personnel and funding cut from.
The CDC just reinstituted masking and as one of a very few unshot folks, I have to test every week to go into the lab. The DoD still has me on a no travel status. This may be my last year of service. I hit 20 years a few months ago. I will probably defer retirement at the end of this year. Pension won't start for another 12 years at the amazing sum of $24k a year, but even if I stayed in for the extra 10 years, it would only increase to about $42k a year. The pension sytem isn't quite what people think about government employees. It is 1% per year of service with a kicker at 30 years of service for 1.1% per year (33%). The shock is that there is no one to replace me. I have been the only one for over 10 years, since my mentor retired. In 10 years, we haven't found one single person for me to train as a replacement. Several started, but they quit after a year or two. The workload and the lack of return is just a hard sell.
People do surprising things when they're about to lose a key component to their core operations. Hopefully you get a better offer or a better opportunity outside of DoD.
There are entire departments and agencies that serve redundant purposes. These purposes are so ineffectually executed that it is almost like they are not even there. There needs to be a review of every single agency with the forced cutback of 25-30% of the least productive members. After that stage, look at redundant/overlapping tasking and redirect or eliminate the excess personnel and authority/responsibility to areas that are lacking. There are many areas that are underserved and there are many Federal employees that are overworked. I know most people believe that there are no Fed workers that do anything, but that isn't true at all. Some of us have a ridiculous workload that is nearly unbelievable and extremely demoralizing. A small percentage of the workforce accomplishes a large majority of productive work. The excess personnel actually impede work being completed, rather than providing assistance. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Some of us are holding everything together with string, super glue and duct tape. Without the technical knowledge, skill and historical data, virtually all of our high tech technology will become useless. I work for the DoD and without us, there are systems that will break and eventually become useless that are irreplaceable. There are no civilian equivalents to many of these systems and no talent pool to draw from that can replace the lost skills. Even finding new hires to train to replace us is one of the most difficult part of our job. It takes a certain skill set and a certain type of psychological makeup to do what we do. The people that can be trained are difficult to find and are often unwilling to go to combat zones to fix critical systems. The work we do and the lengths that we go to is unappreciated, but we do it anyway because we know it is important.
My point is every beaurocratic agency that was created out of thin air in an unconstitutional method needs to be deleted...period. Delete the 4th branch of government. Not saying it must be done all at once. It has already started with the Supreme Court EPA ruling. We've only just begun.
50k? Go for 3million, all federal beaurocratic unconstitutional entity employees...all of them.
....exactly....
Rest will be removed through the justice system.
https://qalerts.app/?n=1927
Q drop reminded me that there are a shit ton of sealed indictments. An indictment can be for more than one person.
https://bad-boys.us/
Weird, I lost my previous comment. Not disagreeing with you, just wanted to let you know that there are some of us that are not the bad guys. We just do the work that no one else can or wants to do. As far as some of the rest of the agencies, absolutely they need to be gutted or eliminated. I can think of several that shouldn't exist and quite a few more that needs both personnel and funding cut from.
100%, thank you for all you do.
The CDC just reinstituted masking and as one of a very few unshot folks, I have to test every week to go into the lab. The DoD still has me on a no travel status. This may be my last year of service. I hit 20 years a few months ago. I will probably defer retirement at the end of this year. Pension won't start for another 12 years at the amazing sum of $24k a year, but even if I stayed in for the extra 10 years, it would only increase to about $42k a year. The pension sytem isn't quite what people think about government employees. It is 1% per year of service with a kicker at 30 years of service for 1.1% per year (33%). The shock is that there is no one to replace me. I have been the only one for over 10 years, since my mentor retired. In 10 years, we haven't found one single person for me to train as a replacement. Several started, but they quit after a year or two. The workload and the lack of return is just a hard sell.
People do surprising things when they're about to lose a key component to their core operations. Hopefully you get a better offer or a better opportunity outside of DoD.
Let's say an annual salary of 60k. That's saving tax payers 3,000,000,000 if 50k roles are gone.
You say 3 mil in useless roles. That's 1,800,000,00,000.
Imagine how many potholes will be filled in with that extra cash 🤣
There are entire departments and agencies that serve redundant purposes. These purposes are so ineffectually executed that it is almost like they are not even there. There needs to be a review of every single agency with the forced cutback of 25-30% of the least productive members. After that stage, look at redundant/overlapping tasking and redirect or eliminate the excess personnel and authority/responsibility to areas that are lacking. There are many areas that are underserved and there are many Federal employees that are overworked. I know most people believe that there are no Fed workers that do anything, but that isn't true at all. Some of us have a ridiculous workload that is nearly unbelievable and extremely demoralizing. A small percentage of the workforce accomplishes a large majority of productive work. The excess personnel actually impede work being completed, rather than providing assistance. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Some of us are holding everything together with string, super glue and duct tape. Without the technical knowledge, skill and historical data, virtually all of our high tech technology will become useless. I work for the DoD and without us, there are systems that will break and eventually become useless that are irreplaceable. There are no civilian equivalents to many of these systems and no talent pool to draw from that can replace the lost skills. Even finding new hires to train to replace us is one of the most difficult part of our job. It takes a certain skill set and a certain type of psychological makeup to do what we do. The people that can be trained are difficult to find and are often unwilling to go to combat zones to fix critical systems. The work we do and the lengths that we go to is unappreciated, but we do it anyway because we know it is important.
My point is every beaurocratic agency that was created out of thin air in an unconstitutional method needs to be deleted...period. Delete the 4th branch of government. Not saying it must be done all at once. It has already started with the Supreme Court EPA ruling. We've only just begun.