[newsreaderguy]

ask yourself who is doing the whipping into frenzy

the media + bureaucratic class + democrat leaders who all have a vested interest in these un-audited institutions remaining in the shadows,

or

the people doing exactly what half the country asked them to do: clean up the government in an unprecedented way

[nmz]

There's no media here, just people talking about the jobs they lost and the jobs they're going to lose, everyone can see it.

For better or worse, there is no media, only social media mobs.

[l0t0b0r0s]

Maybe if DEI is in your job title its not a real job.

I would think both sides of the political spectrum agree that the government spends money frivolously; so I am confused on why people are so upset. Maybe they aren't actually upset and all we are hearing in any form of media are government leeches crying about the end to their gravy train.

[nmz]

Apparently neither is accountant, auditor, federal employee, journalist, judge, reporter, lawmaker, lawman, weatherman, scientist, congressman, etc.

And yes, everyone agrees that there is waste on government, however, what is being labeled as waste is medicare and SNAP and foreign aid.

Why are people upset? there's 200,000 people getting laid off and its only february, of course people are upset, I very much doubt 200k employees are DEI hires.

> The layoffs include between 1,200 and 2,000 employees at the Department of Energy (DOE), including staff from the nuclear security administration and the loans office, two sources familiar with the decision told Reuters.

https://www.newsweek.com/federal-layoffs-live-thousands-prob...

Let's not forget about FAA, which immediately had 2 crashes after it was gutted.

> The aviation security committee, which was mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, will technically continue to exist but it won’t have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports. Before Tuesday, the group included representatives of all the key groups in the industry — including the airlines and major unions — as well as members of a group associated with the victims of the PanAm 103 bombing. The vast majority of the group’s recommendations were adopted over the years.

https://apnews.com/article/coast-guard-homeland-security-pri...

[l0t0b0r0s]

>And yes, everyone agrees that there is waste on government, however, what is being labeled as waste is medicare and SNAP and foreign aid.

Its not our Job to aid the world. Foreign aid is a huge money laundering scam by and large. We have major problems here on our own shores.

> The layoffs include between 1,200 and 2,000 employees at the Department of Energy (DOE), including staff from the nuclear security administration and the loans office

Good. Maybe we can actually build some more nuclear plants instead of having to fight green energy bureaucracy.

>Let's not forget about FAA, which immediately had 2 crashes after it was gutted.

Circumstantial timing. The FAA has been having close calls before it was gutted. The government can do more with less. The plane crashes will stop when we return to meritocracy.

[nmz]

> Its not our Job to aid the world. Foreign aid is a huge money laundering scam by and large. We have major problems here on our own shores.

Not that huge, not a scam either given America is so deeply hated on most of the world, America decided to fight and kill everyone who even thought about "communism" whatever that meant, USAID is its foreign marketing team. Seems like it doesn't want to market itself. that's fine, You also quoted medicare and snap there, I hope you're not one of those that think having well fed people and farmers is not part of a governments job.

> Good. Maybe we can actually build some more nuclear plants instead of having to fight green energy bureaucracy.

If you can't build a nuclear power plant safely, maybe you shouldn't build it at all. Also some firings were people who handle the nuclear weapons.

> Circumstantial timing. The FAA has been having close calls before it was gutted. The government can do more with less. The plane crashes will stop when we return to meritocracy.

It's so great that you mention doing more with less and a meritocracy in this instance given that, the washout rate for being an air traffic controller is incredibly high and there is a deficit of air traffic controllers.

https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/one-thing/episodes/8b310a...

> The government can do more with less.

Can it though?

https://www.gq.com/story/no-irs-audits-for-the-rich

> The cuts are depleting the staff members who help ensure that taxpayers pay what they owe. As of [2017], the IRS had 9,510 auditors. That’s down a third from 2010. The last time the IRS had fewer than 10,000 revenue agents was 1953, when the economy was a seventh of its current size. And the IRS is still shrinking. Almost a third of its remaining employees will be eligible to retire in the next year, and with morale plummeting, many of them will.

> The plane crashes will stop when we return to meritocracy.

Return to when? When was this true?

[l0t0b0r0s]

>Not that huge

Doesnt matter how huge, its a waste of money doing DEI programs in Burma.

>If you can't build a nuclear power plant safely

plenty of safe nuke plants running and they are building more for datacenters

>washout rate for being an air traffic controller is incredibly high

not really a problem of government spending unless you are saying they should pay more? not sure what youre getting at

>Can it though?

Yes it can I mean afterall we had no income tax during the industrial revolution

>Return to when? When was this true?

this was true when we hired people based on merit and not immutable characteristics.