Who, Exactly, do They Work For?

The U. S. Gubmint leases more than 14,000 buildings.

(!)  

The New Administration just provided lessors of its intent to break 7,500 of those leases.

That's because, according to that same Gubmint, only 7% of that office space is currently occupied.  Empty.  Vacant.  Silent.  Nobody home.

Most of the 93% "working" remotely have done so since the Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak occured.  That was 4 years ago.  One wonders how many of those 2,700,000 employees toiling away at home are still working?  Or being supervised?  Or even still alive?

Maybe they're watching Jerry Spring reruns, while eating bon bons and sucking back Pabst Blue Ribbon.  And stroking a key every now and again to try and fool the algorythm.  

That's exactly what the New Administation has been asking.  Where are all those nice folks who were sent home a few years ago.  By an Administration that apparently didn't give a sh*t about getting a $Dollars' worth of work out of the Taxpayers' employees for a $Dollars' worth of pay.  

And then nobody bothered to ask them to return.  Back to the office.  Nobody overseeing their acitivities.  Their output.  Their contribution to the Organization.  That would be Us.  The U.S.  Seems to me there's a whole lot of Chiefs in D.C., and a whole lot of Indians, but dammm few Braves to make sure the trains run on time.

Those nearly 3 Million Federal Employees make (earn?) an average salary of $106,000 a Year.  Did you know that?  Don't know about you, but I'm wondering just how many of these "remote" workers have at least one other job?  Wouldn't you like to know that also?  

After all, it's your Tax Money!

Yet again, the outcry from these Federal Workers has been cacophanous!  They've been crying their eyes out on the Clinton News Network and what's left of MSPMS.  Too think!  "I'm being asked to spend a minute providing 5 bullet points of what I did last week!  Five!  By a miserable billionaire!  And then send them back by email!  Or get fired!  That's insulting!  I have a Master's Degree from Columbia!  Who do they think they are?"  

I'm guessing none of these nice folks has ever had a private sector job.  Where you have to justify your contribution to the organization Every Single Day.  Justify your very existence or get shown the door.  You get fired.  Canned.  Dumped.  Excised.  Culled from the herd.  Removed from the scene.  

With extreme prejudice.

I must admit, I've been fired a couple of times.  Because I wasn't performing.  But it steeled my spine.  And forced me to become so valuable to my employers that they fought to keep me.  And I learned enough to venture out on my own.  And made a success of it.  Seems to me a rather large number of those "Swamp Dwellers" could use a good firing.  Or maybe just cushion the blow by one of those "Reduction in Force" memos.  

Just imagine if we were operating on a Balanced Budget.  And where everyone hired must be justified or not happen.  And every Department and Secretariat operating on Zero-Based Budgeting.  Every year you start back at zero and they have to justify every expense they seek.  No more of that last year's budget plus an automatic 17% bump for "inflation."

You should know that our Gubmint rakes in about $4.6 TRILLION DOLLARS every year from income taxes.  An all-time record, BTW.  Yet, it spends more than $1.5 TRILLION DOLLARS more than that!  That's why we're nearly $37 TRILLION DOLLARS in debt! 

When Elon Musk (over)paid $44,000,000,000 for Twitter, he immediately fired 80% of its staff.  And you'll notice "X," the old Twitter, is humming along quite nicely.  I doubt such draconian cuts would prove necessary in D.C.  But I'm betting we could get along without at least 25% of the Federal Gubmint's workforce.  After all, they're not coming to work anyway!  

Oh yeah, and free them from the burden of having to reply to their Boss...

Here's a question on my way out the Digital Door, do they work for us, or do we work for them?