Posted on 02/12/2025 11:44:47 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Elon Musk announced on Tuesday that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was looking into a limestone mine in Pennsylvania, where the cost-cutting organization says federal employee retirements are processed manually using a system that could take months.
Musk told reporters about the mine on Tuesday during an appearance with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, as the president prepared to sign an executive order concerning the billionaire’s work leading DOGE.
"And then we're told this is actually, I think, a great anecdote, because we're told the most number of people that could retire possibly in a month is 10,000," Musk said.
"We're like, well, what? Why is that? Well, because all the retirement paperwork is manual on paper," he continued. "It's manually calculated and written down on a piece of paper. Then it goes down to mine and like, what do you mean, a mine?"
DOGE wrote on X that an old limestone mine in Boyers, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles north of Pittsburgh, is where about 700 workers operate more than 230 feet underground to process about 10,000 federal retirement applications per month.
The applications are processed by hand using paper, and are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes, DOGE said.
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"And then the speed, the limiting factor is the speed at which the mine shaft elevator can move, determines how many people can retire from the federal government," Musk said. "And the elevator breaks down and sometimes, and then you can't, nobody can retire. Doesn't that sound crazy?"
Musk said the flawed system of "carrying manila envelopes to, you know, boxes in a mine shaft" could be remedied with "practically anything else."
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How backward can the system get?
I like it myself.
Let them know the pain that their ineptitude causes.
I imagine it can’t be any better at the VA.
I once knew a person who operated in a certain capacity which shall remain nameless. His/her file was to be paper only never put on to a computer so said this person.
I envision some of those files might be buried somewhere in the same way
This is insane...
Republicans should remake the ad used in final hours of Trump campaign.
Elon and DOGE is for you. Show all the fraud he’s found going to foreign countries. End with screaming Democrats and say
Democrats are for they/them.
Once it goes viral, media will talk about it.
With a constant temperature should save on utilities. Move all federal office into mines.
It beggars belief.
“Mr. President, we cannot allow a mine-shaft gap!”
Sounds not dissimilar to USARPERCEN in St. Louis.
The applications are processed by hand using paper, and are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes,
- = .
It’s climate controlled and immune to Chinese hackers. That’s a bad thing?
Turn the GD mine into a high security prison for all those in Congress who have been ripping us off at gunpoint. Seize all their accounts, assets, mansions, everything.
Do they run the place with a steam engine? Come on, you can do the same thing with a hard drive.
Wait until he hets to USPS.
This is simple data processing...Wonder what these “clerks” are making??
10,000/700 people = 14.28 per person in a month. OR
10,000 /20 days/mo = 500 files/day/700 people....each person does less than 1 file per day.
I'm pretty tired...correct me if I'm wrong but be gentle.
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