Posted on 02/19/2025 3:07:37 PM PST by nickcarraway
What is a good way of reducing plane crashes? Obviously do not fire air safety experts and instil paranoia in those who remain. Yet that is what Elon Musk is doing to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), three weeks after America’s deadliest air collision in years. His team is moving fast to break things, as though Washington were an app. Other than China’s cultural revolution, history offers few parallels to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) assault on the state.
Musk’s declared aim is to slash US deficits by rooting out waste, fraud and abuse. His model is the 80 per cent of Twitter’s staff that he fired after buying the site - starting with its trust and safety group. If someone essential is let go in error, he says, they can be rehired.
That was indeed the case for hundreds of nuclear safety officials Musk fired earlier this month. It took a while to reinstate the staff monitoring America’s nuclear stockpile because DOGE had misplaced their contact details.The gulf between the jobs most federal employees do and how Musk depicts them is Orwellian. He has described US civil servants as radicals who use their bureaucratic powers for personal kickbacks. The now shuttered US aid agency was a “criminal organisation”. Some of its staff were worth tens of millions of dollars, Musk said. The US Treasury, meanwhile, was sending out millions of Social Security checks to dead people, terrorists and fraudsters.
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He compares it to the Cultural Revolution in China and nothing like that has happened.
Government is NOT America
Hes not torching America
Hes uncovering and exposing all the govt waste and grift we know has been going on for decades
“What is a good way of reducing plane crashes?”
Don’t hire unqualified DEI pilots?
Eddie Screw Luce from Asia News.
Biden torched American on behalf of a bunch of trannies and fags
I despise these people. Musk hasn’t and never will fire government employees. Do I have to really say he doesn’t have the authority. The left hasn’t learned anything. I for one, am over their infantile behavior, when it comes to our President and his team.
Dear eddie......😭😭😭😭🖕
WHAT DOES THIS “NEWS SOUCE” KNOW ABOUT AMERICA???
LOL!
It knows USAID will not be buying subscriptions to its content any longer
Up to this time NO flight controllers have been fired. This has been excess administrative staff.
It’s a feature, not a bug.
Build Back Boeing Better?
Moving HQ to ChIraq was an indication of a serious drop of focus on the Product.
Sad really.
There were no "air safety experts" layed off.
There were no "experts" of any kind layed off. No one becomes an expert of anything in a probationary period.
The torch is exposing the cockroaches.
Well, the LIEberals ARE ACTING OUT! AREN’T THEY’
And, all of the world is watching while they clearly demonstrate that they CANNOT EVER BE TRUSTED AGAIN!
Self-deluded on steroids barely describes their insane behavior.
Elon is coming for your gold fish!
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