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DEI must die: All federal employees need to explain their work immediately — or be fired!

Government employees will have to share what they’ve been working on in the last week or face dismissal, Elon Musk said Saturday.

The President signed an executive order last Tuesday for agencies to work with DOGE to make “preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force.”

More firings are on the way: The Pentagon announced Friday its plans to fire 5,400 employees, and other agencies have also indicated they’re continuing to look for cuts.

A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and destruction of water, food, humans, animals, plants and any kind of tools and infrastructure. The woke must go.

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ElwoodBlues · M

@sree251 says

Federal employees under scrutiny by Doge are not doing research.

DEAD WRONG.
Bird flu researchers were fired; now tRump is trying to hire them back.

The USDA fired staffers working on bird flu. Now it's trying to reverse course
... Within days, however, the agency sought to reverse some of those firings — particularly those related to its handling of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302019/bird-flu-usda-firings-reversed

@Reason10 whines

Excuse me? DemoNazis CREATED THE POOR.

There were no US poor people until the 1960s????
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT

most of it from the WELFARE STATE.

The budget of the US dept of Agriculture is $200 billion per year – there's a TON of welfare for agribusiness there. The 2023 US Defense budget was $916 billion – welfare for defense contractors. And their stockholders. $916 billion is more than the next NINE countries' defense budgets combined.

tRump''s Covid era welfare was 10.2 million Paycheck Protection Program loans that were forgiven or partially forgiven. With average forgiveness $72,000, that works out to $734 billion in loan forgiveness welfare to business owners.

If we're a welfare state, @Reason10, the welfare is going to big business and their stockholders.

And what about welfare for citizens??

In 2023, the federal government spent $1.35 trillion on Social Security, which was 22% of the total federal budget. That's money people paid in over their working lives and are now withdrawing. Medicare, $848 billion in 2023, is another program where people paid in over their working lives.

Thus, the largest part of the budget is non-discretionary spending; driven by payroll deductions, NOT income tax.

As of 2023, SNAP spending was $112.8 billion; TANF's block grant stands at a fixed $16.5 billion per year. The total federal budget in 2023 was $6.2 trillion. So aid to the poor - what @Reason10 considers welfare - amounts to 2.1% of the total federal budget.

And of course this discussion wouldn't be complete without a note about where the money comes FROM. Taxes are roughly proportional to GDP. And the vast majority of our GDP comes from BLUE AREAS.

@Convivial

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues

ElwoodBlues · M

@sunsporter1649 You have different numbers, sunstroke? Please, enlighten us, share them with us!!

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues

- $2 million for Moroccan pottery classes

- $2 million promoting tourism to Lebanon

- $20 million for a Sesame Street show in Iraq

- Sending Ukranians to Paris Fashion Week

- $1 million to help disabled people in Tajikistan become climate leaders

- $15 million for 'contraceptives and condoms’ in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan

$45 million scholarship program for students in Burma.

$25,000 award entitled “Empowering LGBTQIA+ Refugees in Greece”

– $10M for “Mozambique voluntary medical male circumcision”

– $9.7M for UC Berkeley to develop “a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills”

– $2.3M for “strengthening independent voices in Cambodia”

– $32M to the Prague Civil Society Centre

– $40M for “gender equality and women empowerment hub”

– $14M for “improving public procurement” in Serbia

– $486M to the “Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening,” including $22M for
“inclusive and participatory political process” in Moldova and $21M for voter turnout in India

– $29M to “strenghening political landscape in Bangladesh”

– $20M for “fiscal federalism” in Nepal

– $19M for “biodiversity conversation” in Nepal

– $1.5M for “voter confidence” in Liberia

– $14M for “social cohesion” in Mali

– $2.5M for “inclusive democracies in Southern Africa”

– $47M for “improving learning outcomes in Asia”

- $265k for a “food and nutrition service 3 day leadership retreat in Atlanta”

- $30K for “Malaysia study tour facilitation services”

-$324,671 grant for “Increasing DEIA Programming for Integrated Pest Management”

– $2M to develop “sustainable recycling models” to “increase socio-economic cohesion among marginalized
communities of Kosovo Roma, Ashkali, and Egypt”

ElwoodBlues · M

@sunsporter1649 Those add up to what, 0.001% of the federal budget?

You have different federal budge numbers, sunstroke? Please, enlighten us, share them with us!!

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues Whoda guessed that you would approve of wasteful gubberment spending, fraud, and abuse. Fits your profile to a tee

sree251 · 41-45, M

@ElwoodBlues You are stuffed with information. Are you working from home?

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sree251 · 41-45, M

@ElwoodBlues Why are you people making a fuss and protesting the US Government doing its job to cut waste and improve efficiency? If it screws up, Congress can take necessary action. You need to sit back and relax.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@sree251 ”Now, what is the left’s worldview in general? What is it? If you had to attach not a philosophy but an attitude to a
leftist worldview, it’s one of pessimism and darkness, sadness. They’re never happy, are they? They’re always angry about
something. No matter what they get, they’re always angry.”

RHL

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sree251 · 41-45, M

@sunsporter1649

”Now, what is the left’s worldview in general? What is it? If you had to attach not a philosophy but an attitude to a
leftist worldview, it’s one of pessimism and darkness, sadness. They’re never happy, are they? They’re always angry about
something. No matter what they get, they’re always angry.”

RHL

The left's worldview is that of a disgruntled teenager's. They are miserable dogs that bite hands that feed them.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues "Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal.”

"When you figure out how to give a tax cut to someone who does not pay taxes, please let us know"

"Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no
longer need it.”

ElwoodBlues · M

@sunsporter1649

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues

ElwoodBlues · M

@sunsporter1649

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues

ElwoodBlues · M

@sunsporter1649 Top dog Tяump

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues