Laying off food inspectors, tax auditors, veteran department employees, health workers, scientists, weather forecasters, FEMA employees, etc. doesn’t seem to be smart. Perhaps eliminating Tesla subsidies and taxing the wealthy properly would help with the debt.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 7:42 AM, Bob Bridges <[email protected]> wrote: It just occurred to me that government agencies may be missing an important point. Surely much of the inevitable bloat in any bureaucracy (not just ours but every long-lived government in history) comes from adding new responsibilities to existing agencies? "Hey, we already do THIS; The Peepul would benefit so much more if we can also do THIS." But with all these government layoffs, I see no hint in the news that everyone's going to eliminate services as a result. No, they'll all just try to keep providing all the same services with fewer people, and of course doing them badly (or at least more badly). --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* If you're not failing when you train or test your security, you're not learning anything. -Craig Tucker */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Monday, March 3, 2025 22:41 And don't forget inside attacks. DOGE firings, changes may result in missed Social Security payments, delays in payment enrollment. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/doge-actions-may-cause-social-security-benefit-interruption-ex-agency-head.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
