Iron Mountain!
I bet he is referring to the limestone caves in eastern Kansas City. My friend at the IRS used to go there to physically file things. The Jackson County Missouri Recorder of deeds has the old records in the limestone caves.
The final deposition/archiving of hard records - an old limestone mine would be just fine. Excellent perhaps.
But moving the functional aspects of the office into said space? Someone’s idea of ‘efficiency’ back in 1970s, to keep the workers near the records, then government workers being government workers - the process becomes the alter upon which all must worship.
Thanks Elon Musk and D.O.G.E. team. Why aren’t ANY of the 535 in CONgre$$ praising / thanking / helping Elon?
Mine is in there somewhere....at my last retirement class as part of the curriculum the instructor went through this very thing.
30 people in the class and we were all looking at each other shaking our heads in disbelief at the antiquated system.
If anyone can fix it Elon can.....thst is If he doesn’t get 100 roadblocks thrown in his path by democrats.
Remember the “penny plan” that Congress could never bring itself to sign on to?
Looks like we need the “quarter” plan: reduce federal budgets by 25% across the board, then in the next year reduce them be 25% more.
Except we know Congress will never deliver on that either, given how much money they make on delivering pork-barrel spending instead.
So the president needs to be the tough guy. And actually, that was a good part of the role of the office historically. It turns out that only in the aftermath of the Nixon administration Congress passed a patently unconstitutional law to prevent presidents from exercising their traditional power of “impoundment”, or not spending funds that aren’t necessary, wise or within constitutional constraint. The Trump admin is setting up to challenge this.
Here is a great article on the historical and constitutional basis for impoundment: https://americarenewing.com/the-history-of-impoundments-before-the-impoundment-control-act-of-1974/
Comforting to know bureaucrat retirement records will be safe from a nuke.
The 1950’s? If that’s the case, I suppose the reason was probably survivability and continuity of government in the event of a nuclear war.
We should arguably have done more of this, not less, but in any event ... in the event of a nuclear apocalypse, it is good to know that government pension benefits at least will continue normally.
“I didn’t know this place existed.”
Feds: “it doesn’t!”
Well, if it’s good enough for Batman . . .
“We must not have a Retirement Mine Shaft Gap!”
Probably continuity of government planning. Even in a nuclear war those government retirements will be processed. :-)
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.
I suspect Iron Mountain is going to be in hearings and the results will not go well for them...
I wonder what else is hidden down there after all these years.