Elon Musk Unveils Insane Federal Government Retirement System Deep In a Cave!

100 Percent Fed Up ^ | February 11, 2025 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Every day we learn something new from Elon Musk’s DOGE team….

Today we learned the absolutely INSANE process our Government uses for Federal Employee Retirements.

You wouldn’t think that would be anything special or weird, but it is!

For some reason, back in the 1950s, our Government decided that Federal Employee Retirements would be processed in an abandoned limestone mine in Pennsylvania, 230 feet underground.

Because….why not?

Is that the most insane and stupid thing you’ve ever heard?

INSANE! pic.twitter.com/rR1cH8XpsS— Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) February 11, 2025

Here is Elon in the Oval Office explaining it in more detail….

Public employee unions and politicians will look you in the eye and tell you a limestone mine shaft is the only way to do retirement paperwork and you’re just not sophisticated in the ways of the sacred bureaucracy if you think a better way might be LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE. https://t.co/vL7O0hyQJJ— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) February 11, 2025

So for some reason we buried all of this 230 feet below ground, we process everything in paper by hand, and we are literally limited by the speed of the one elevator shaft that breaks down frequently.

Are you freaking kidding me?

Meanwhile, President Trump has just signed a new Executive Order mandating that all Government Agencies work with DOGE:

🚨 #BREAKING: Elon Musk and his son Lil X are in the Oval Office with President Trump as he signs an executive order MANDATING federal agencies work with DOGE

LFG @elonmusk! Give ‘em hell!

📸 @ShelbyTalcott pic.twitter.com/wNg8leIe3P— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 11, 2025

Breaking DOGE Executive Order: Trump Signs EO Giving More Teeth To DOGE To Root Out More Waste Fraud And Abuse

Trump: WE'RE FINDING BILLIONS IN FRAUD—COULD BE A TRILLION

Alex Jones Breaks Down What The EO Means And Shows Highlights From The Press Conference

More Breaking News… pic.twitter.com/VqiKV3hUdk— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) February 12, 2025

Here is the Executive Order in full:

IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT’S “DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY” WORKFORCE OPTIMIZATION INITIATIVE EXECUTIVE ORDER February 11, 2025 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. To restore accountability to the American public, this order commences a critical transformation of the Federal bureaucracy. By eliminating waste, bloat, and insularity, my Administration will empower American families, workers, taxpayers, and our system of Government itself.

Sec. 2. Definitions. (a) “Agency” has the meaning given to it in section 3502 of title 44, United States Code, except that such term does not include the Executive Office of the President or any components thereof. (b) “Agency Head” means the highest-ranking official of an agency, such as the Secretary, Administrator, Chairman, or Director, unless otherwise specified in this order. (c) “DOGE Team Lead” means the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Team at each agency, as defined in Executive Order 14158 of January 20, 2025 (Establishing and Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency”). (d) “Employee” has the meaning given to it by section 2105 of title 5, United States Code, and includes individuals who serve in the executive branch and who qualify as employees under that section for any purpose. (e) “Immigration enforcement” means the investigation, enforcement, or assisting in the investigation or enforcement of Federal immigration law, including with respect to Federal immigration law that penalizes a person’s presence in, entry, or reentry to, or employment in, the United States, but does not include assisting individuals in applying for immigration benefits or efforts to prevent enforcement of immigration law or to prevent deportation or removal from the United States. (f) “Law enforcement” means: (i) engagement in or supervision of the prevention, detection, investigation, or prosecution of, or the incarceration of any person for, any violation of law; or (ii) the protection of Federal, State, local, or foreign government officials against threats to personal safety. (g) “Temporary employee” has the meaning given to it in 5 C.F.R. part 316. (h) “Reemployed annuitant” has the meaning given to it in 5 C.F.R. part 837.

Sec. 3. Reforming the Federal Workforce to Maximize Efficiency and Productivity. (a) Hiring Ratio. Pursuant to the Presidential Memorandum of January 20, 2025 (Hiring Freeze), the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall submit a plan to reduce the size of the Federal Government’s workforce through efficiency improvements and attrition (Plan). The Plan shall require that each agency hire no more than one employee for every four employees that depart, consistent with the plan and any applicable exemptions and details provided for in the Plan. This order does not affect the standing freeze on hiring as applied to the Internal Revenue Service. This ratio shall not apply to functions related to public safety, immigration enforcement, or law enforcement. Agency Heads shall also adhere to the Federal Hiring Plan that will be promulgated pursuant to Executive Order 14170 of January 20, 2025 (Reforming the Federal Hiring Process and Restoring Merit to Government Service). (b) Hiring Approval. Each Agency Head shall develop a data-driven plan, in consultation with its DOGE Team Lead, to ensure new career appointment hires are in highest-need areas. (i) This hiring plan shall include that new career appointment hiring decisions shall be made in consultation with the agency’s DOGE Team Lead, consistent with applicable law. (ii) The agency shall not fill any vacancies for career appointments that the DOGE Team Lead assesses should not be filled, unless the Agency Head determines the positions should be filled. (iii) Each DOGE Team Lead shall provide the United States DOGE Service (USDS) Administrator with a monthly hiring report for the agency. (c) Reductions in Force. Agency Heads shall promptly undertake preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force (RIFs), consistent with applicable law, and to separate from Federal service temporary employees and reemployed annuitants working in areas that will likely be subject to the RIFs. All offices that perform functions not mandated by statute or other law shall be prioritized in the RIFs, including all agency diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives; all agency initiatives, components, or operations that my Administration suspends or closes; and all components and employees performing functions not mandated by statute or other law who are not typically designated as essential during a lapse in appropriations as provided in the Agency Contingency Plans on the Office of Management and Budget website. This subsection shall not apply to functions related to public safety, immigration enforcement, or law enforcement. (d) Rulemaking. Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) shall initiate a rulemaking that proposes to revise 5 C.F.R. 731.202(b) to include additional suitability criteria, including: (i) failure to comply with generally applicable legal obligations, including timely filing of tax returns; (ii) failure to comply with any provision that would preclude regular Federal service, including citizenship requirements; (iii) refusal to certify compliance with any applicable nondisclosure obligations, consistent with 5 U.S.C. 2302(b)(13), and failure to adhere to those compliance obligations in the course of Federal employment; and (iv) theft or misuse of Government resources and equipment, or negligent loss of material Government resources and equipment. (e) Developing Agency Reorganization Plans. Within 30 days of the date of this order, Agency Heads shall submit to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget a report that identifies any statutes that establish the agency, or subcomponents of the agency, as statutorily required entities. The report shall discuss whether the agency or any of its subcomponents should be eliminated or consolidated. (f) Within 240 days of the date of this order, the USDS Administrator shall submit a report to the President regarding implementation of this order, including a recommendation as to whether any of its provisions should be extended, modified, or terminated.

Sec. 4. Exclusions. (a) This order does not apply to military personnel. (b) Agency Heads may exempt from this order any position they deem necessary to meet national security, homeland security, or public safety responsibilities. (c) The Director of OPM may grant exemptions from this order where those exemptions are otherwise necessary and shall assist in promoting workforce reduction.

Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect: (i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or (ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations. (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

THE WHITE HOUSE, February 11, 2025.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.

[BikerJoe]

Iron Mountain!

Yup, just NE of the 'burgh. A friend works there.

Maybe there are better ways to do stuff, but storing hard copies of records there isn't stupid. (They have a big data center their now as well). And yes, it was originally, and to a certain extent still, about COG.

[ExSES]

Simply google "Boyers, PA Limestone Caves". As to why OPM operates there..., as always, a political deal was negotiated by a Pennsylvania Senator years ago and in 1960, OPM moved into the limestone cave owned by Iron Mountain (NYSE "IRM").

[Seruzawa]

Idiots. The US Govt was worried about nuclear war and decided to move the operations underground. Get a grip. Remedy your own ignorance of history.

[dljordan]

The document repository near Kansas City is an old salt mine. There are driveways in there that will take a tractor trailer and they have a railway. There are even businesses in there.

[Vendome]

I suspect Iron Mountain is going to be in hearings and the results will not go well for them...

[mass55th]

I wonder what else is hidden down there after all these years.

[Red Badger]

Jimmy Hoffa........................

[mass55th]

"Jimmy Hoffa........................"

LOL!! And whatever wasn't in Al Capone's safe when Geraldo got it open.

[yldstrk]

OK, if you say so.

[dljordan]

You’re right the one beneath Kansas City IS limestone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1YDufouqbY

My apologies.

[yldstrk]

It’s fine, I’m from there, I’ve been in them.