Lol Trump never pays his workers. How many decades until people learn?
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2025
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He's implying that U.S. taxpayers are paying for this, through the U.S. Treasury theft they are currently conducting.
I still half expect these payouts to never happen. Gotta "save taxpayer money" after all! It's efficiency!
The federal hydra sheds 75k heads, but the beast grows new ones faster than Musk’s DOGE can print memos. Efficiency theater at its finest—billionaires playing Jenga with lives while preaching fiscal responsibility from their diamond-encrusted pulpits.
They’ll burn $1 trillion on a spreadsheet fantasy, yet can’t fathom why overhead costs exist in a system built on Kafkaesque bureaucracy. The unions warned them—trusting a reality TV state to honor deals is like expecting integrity from a payday lender.
Meanwhile, the same zombie logic guts medical research and consumer protections. Priorities: yes to border spectacles, no to curing cancer. The real virus here is short-termism, metastasizing through every hollowed-out institution.
But hey, at least the propagandists will spin this as draining the swamp. Never mind that the alligators are now running the drainage company.
Well now this was just pleasantly well written.
That's a little over 3% of the entire federal workforce, to put it in perspective
When a federal worker takes this buyout, the 8 months pay still comes out of the budget of whatever office/department they were employed by. So many of our federal institutions are already cash strapped right now due to funding cuts and straight up DOGE sabotage.
When these workers take the buyout, those facilities lose a worker and spend money for nothing out of their appropriated budgets.
I'd bet most of these people that have taken the buyout already earned their pentions. This isn't "saving" as much money as you think, it's just meant to break shit and its working.