Posted on 02/23/2025 12:01:34 PM PST by MNDude
Elon Musk took to social media to allege that the identities of deceased people, or "non-existent" people, were being used by unauthorized persons to collect federal paychecks.
Musk sent out an email to federal employees across departments on Saturday in which he asked them to justify their jobs, requesting that they "reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished this week and cc your manager."
The reason this matters is that a significant number of people who are supposed to be working for the government are doing so little work that they are not checking their email at all!" he wrote, explaining the correspondence on X (formerly Twitter).
In some cases, we believe non-existent people or the identities of dead people are being used to collect paychecks. In other words, there is outright fraud," he continued.
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The obvious question is who are collecting these payments?
You have to admit that doing nothing is better than doing harmful things.
The old “no show” job scam.
Some government employees, such as air traffic controllers, rarely use email. Could be an issue with some.
I’m starting to think that literally 50% of the budget is fraud.
I’m not even talking about Government waste.
The federal budget, outside the military will probably be reduced 80 percent when DOGE is done. Although probably a third of the Pentagon budget is downright fraud also.
You have paid activists, NOT federal workers..I think the main reason for the outrage from the left is that many of them are not actually working, yes many of them do work but many of them are being paid by US to be activists, show up at protests..did you ever wonder when they have mass protests against Trump or pro hamas protests “Where do these people come from dont they work” UH, yeah, their job is to protest and we are paying them to do it
It's possible. The last time we've had an actual budget was in 1996.
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This explains the email we all got telling us to respond with five accomplishments. It’s the HR equivalent of “check all the boxes with street lights”. I can’t wait to see how many phantom employees we have on the books.
With 4 point something trillion “almost impossible to trace”…yeah, half easy!
Hey — if you can collect a government paycheck, you can vote. And if you don’t have to have a pulse to vote ....
Democrats think this is a valid position.
"I hope a massive audit of the jobs on the books for the federal government is conducted too. I can believe that there have been ghost employees on the payroll of our government for decades, putting taxpayer dollars in the pockets of people who don't actually exist."
Linda Grahmnasty?
This is the most jewish thing I have ever heard. Jews have done this through out history from country to country.
ping
In my last job, if i went away for a week, it would take a whole day to go thru email. And some i missed. People would then send a duplicate and ask: “You were out did you see this?”
Once we find out, I bet we will not be surprized
We know some of this occurs as there periodically news reports on it. But is it extensive and pervasive or an anomaly here & there?
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