Comments by "TeeKay" (@teekay_1) on "Federal worker says 'not' speaking out is what DOGE, President Trump wants" video.

@hallhv01 You can thank Biden for that. He's the one who signed the deal.
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Well, it's a DC station. They want the federal workers to watch their channel when they are unemployed.
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@ostrich67 The reason they use contractors is two-fold, first they generally get more skilled workers and second, when the contract is over, the contractors are gone. And if a contractor is not doing their job, you just call the agency and they're removed. Trying to remove a federal worker for cause is very difficult.
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@Blackronin357 A lot of people in the executive branch are un-elected. Federal workers are un-elected. Department heads are unelected. The reality is not only does Musk have some of the highest security clearances in the government, but the president has created a department within his administration (DOGE) to do this, and he put Musk in charge. This is 100% legal and proper. USAID was created in 1961 using an executive order, and it was ended by an executive order. Let me put this another way. Couldn't the president hire Accenture, or Deloitte, or any of dozens of big consulting firms and do the same thing? This is mainly a talking point because the Democrat party uses agencies like USAID for graft and waste and they see their funding slipping away.
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@LPRLPR-t2m The US Government should not be the largest employer in the country. And what Musk and team are doing is simply looking through payments and flagging those that appear to be fraudulent or wasteful. And yes, the DOD is on that list. If Trump/Musk is successful, they may be able to balance the budget by simply eliminating wasteful spending throughout the government.
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@hallhv01 Not exactly; in many cases congress allocates a big bucket of money with broad discretion for the administration to spend on it. So no, it's not always the congress that is specific on what the money is meant to do; in fact more often then not the administration makes a decision on how to spend it.
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Exactly. The country is $36T in the hole right now and like any large entity, unfortunately the workers are the biggest cost to a company and are let go. This happens all the time in private industry.
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I did consulting over at OPM years ago and it's mostly people reading the newspaper. This guy claims he could easily make more money elsewhere, I suspect he'll find out shortly.
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@ It is inarguable that it's easier to get rid of a bad contractor than a Federal employee. And in reality if it was that easy to get a bump in salary, every federal employee would do it in a heartbeat. They stay because they assumed it was guaranteed employment unless they try to assault a co-worker
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@makaiokalahama Workers represent a fixed cost with a long tail, so every company tries to minimize the number of employees. Programs can be cut (we're seeing that now) but even if the worker does nothing he gets paid. The US government should not be the employer of last resort as it is now. Workers need to be incented with bonuses when they do an outstanding job and fired when they just sit around and only do what they're told.
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@markrobinowitz8473 Another silly talking point from Democrats terrified their leverage in DC is going away. There is no proof other than Jaime Ratskin claiming this. If he had real proof, he'd show it on TV. You've either been sucked into his silly lies, or aren't very smart. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say you were sucked in by one of the most useless congressmen in congress.
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@sandlotkrew8778 When you have a deficit of $2T, it is money not spent and makes the deficit less worse. Kind of like if you don't spend that $20 on lottery tickets, you just didn't spend as much money.
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@JTpnoy777 You are simply not liking the facts of the situation.
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@JTpnoy777 We get it, you voted for Kamala and you have TDS. You may even be a gubmint "worker". But a CEO of a major company can spot fraud, when you see the general ledger and there's no WBS's or even a memo what the expense was for then guess what.... it's fraud. The the GAO has 100's of accountants that couldn't find it, because they're government workers and they're told not to follow GAAP because then it would make it too hard to send money for pet causes without the public knowing about it. So much for getting accountants eh? P.S. Do you have an explanation of how congressmen go from being worth a couple hundred thousand bucks and 6 years later they're worth 20 million?
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@JTpnoy777 As long as they find fruitful areas to cut, it doesn't matter their age nor their titles. We're $35T in debt with another $2T this fiscal year. There will have to be painful cuts all over the government to even cut the deficit this year in half. This is a good start and you should be grateful there are people willing to do it. The alternatives are all significantly worse.
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