If you exclude security guards & maintenance personnel, the number of government workers who show up in person and do 40 hours of work a week is closer to 1%!

Per the latest from the BLS....

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

“...In November, government employment continued to trend up (+33,000), in line with the average monthly gain over the prior 12 months (+41,000). Over the month, employment continued to trend up in state government (+20,000)....”

It’s good to be Deep State...

Without hundreds of thousands of government employees, the District of Corruption would amount to little more than a newspaper stand. That joint is 100% reliant on U.S. taxpayer dollars to survive.

If you exclude security guards & maintenance personnel, the number of government workers who show up in person and do 40 hours of work a week is closer to 1%!
X ^ | Dec 5, 2024 | Elon Musk

Thank you Elon and George 76.

Hammering the government with brutal truth is the only way to begin cutting leviathan down to size.

“Now we know why they vote Democrat at almost 93%.”

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They also support every Democrat spending program that increases the taxpayers’ financial burden.

In the DC area the percentage of them who vote Dem is probably closer to 99%.

Call a federal office:

--- Press 2 to speak to a bureaucrat in swimsuit by the pool

--- Press 3 to speak to a staff person on a cell hone, out fishing.

---Press 4 to speak to a government spokesperson who will stop laughing, only long enough to blow you off.

---For other options, press yourself, sucker!

I worked out at a gym down the street from the capital in Tallahassee. I was unemployed at the time, so I went at all odd hours during the day. I very frequently was near some of then Governor Bush’s top-level people who seemed to be in there at all odd hours. I overheard a derisive conversation where they were incensed that he wanted them to explain what they did. From listening they didn’t have a ready answer but felt deserving of their high status and pay regardless. (They often talked at 11 am about their upcoming golf at two pm.) Bush fired them. Oh, my, gosh were they upset.

I want to be a security guard from home. I can eat donuts and monitor cameras just as well here.

For years I did the IT for the FAFSA application which essentially is a net worth statement. It was the most important DOE application and had very high level visibility if the slightest blip occurred. The feds threw a lot of bucks at it. This year after millions was spent reengineering the app to “make it simpler”, the app was a Obamacare scaled failure with students unable to process financial aid applications. I never understood why the DOE had anything to do with financial aid anyway. Why can’t the students just apply to the college or university directly?

Excluding Homeland Security personnel?

Actually this is utter BS and Elon knows it and I am going to call him out on his BS to his face. Elon knows well that the problem is not remote working which works very well in a wide variety of circumstance. The problem is not where or how people work, but what jobs they do, and much of the federal government is doing jobs not worth doing. Clogging up the highways to do it face to face or to attend long useless tiresome meetings is not a solution to a job with negative economic impact and a high percentage of federal jobs have negative economic consequences. The better they do their jobs the more they cost the economy. Sometimes in person work is valuable and necessary and sometimes it just creates distractions against actually getting real work done and it varies day to day and person to person and task to task. And Elon knows that better than anyone and he is blowing smoke here.

No wonder the majority of government employees in D.C. are Democrat voters and minorities....

The Democrats are the party for the government worker (non-military), rich, and unions.

It is a common misnomer that the rich support the Republicans. That was largely perpetuated by Hollywood.

Most billionaires in this country were made by government and for government, Google, Buffet, Soros, Bezos... Government is the primary way that folks become super wealthy (protectionism, subsidies, grants, contracts), but also expand on their wealth, example big pharma with vaccine mandates, epipen, huge government spending programs for hiv medications without any cost restrictions...

It’s a simple case of supporting those that you benefit most from, and unions, government, and the super wealthy do very well under Democrat leaders: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/US_Real_Wage_Growth_SITE.jpg