A whopping 13,000 federal employees reportedly received an abusive email on Thursday after a new broadcast system was quickly exploited.
  • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
    481·
    22 days ago

    Number of federal employees

    1970: 2.8 million

    2024: 3.0 million

    US Population

    1970: 203 million

    2024: 340 million

    All they do is lie. Federal employees make life better for all, and all they’ve ever seen is shrinking resources and more workload.

    Fuck Republicans and fuck everyone who votes for this shit.

    American lives will get worse, and unfortunately the morons who vote for this are too fucking stupid to connect dots and realize how nice their lives are with what government does for them.

    • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      22 days ago

      Just to look at that a different way, 1970 = 1 fed employee for every 72.5 citizens, 2024 = 1 fed employee for every 113.3 citizens. Add on top of that a budget that likely has not increased proportionally, and the strain gets even greater. So it sounds like our government is able to operate half as effectively as it was in the 70s, and they think that is too much.

      • lazynooblet@lazysoci.alEnglish
        1·
        22 days ago

        operate half as effectively

        I think you mean double effective. Seeing as each fed needs to cater for double the populace.

        • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          22 days ago

          We mean the same thing I believe. I phrased it thinking of how on a per citizen basis they now only have half a fed workers time they used to, while your phrasing comes at it from the employee has to do twice as much with the same resources.

          I’ll concede I probably was not clear in the way I intended and I appreciate you reframing my thoughts for me. 😅

          • lazynooblet@lazysoci.alEnglish
            0·
            22 days ago

            No you’re right. Now that I’ve slept on it I see your point. When looking from the population perspective there are half as many fed agents available so they are half as effective (increased wait times, reduction of services etc).

            • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
              0·
              21 days ago

              We have succeeded in getting each other to see it though the other person’s perspective, so this has turned into a better comment chain than probably 90% of political posts! 😁

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
    20·
    22 days ago

    This is Elon’s fault.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-doge-executive-order-elon-musk-us-digital-service-it/

    https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/21/doge_us_digital_service_renamed/

    DOGE is actually just a rebranding of US Digital Services, basically the IT for the Federal government.

    To repeat: Elon, the idiot who blew up Twitter’s technical back and frontend, is in charge of IT services for the Federal government.

    EDIT: Oh dear god.

    https://futurism.com/elon-kids-gutting-opm-doge

    Yep, for the stuff Elon isn’t directly in control of, he’s appointing basically interns and other employees from his and his techbro friend’s (Thiel) companies.

  • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    23 days ago

    What about tagging posts with “Trump” (elon, zuck… Etc)?

    That way all our spam filters will work way better and our sanity may stay intact :-)