From the Chasing Ghosts podcast:
Memo to DOGE:
Fire all 8,222 Federal Senior Executive Service (SES) employees. Rehire if needed as Limited Term appointments only as defined under 5 U.S.C. 3132 (a)(5): limited term appointee means an individual appointed under a nonrenewable appointment for a term of 3 years or less to a SES positions the duties of which will expire at the end of such term. In 2024, the basic annual salary for SES members ranges from $180,000 to $246,200.
Fire all 93 federal district attorneys.
Fire all Ambassadors (they have to submit their resignations with each new administration, they serve "at the pleasure of the President",) and all 7,999 Foreign Service officers, called "generalist" diplomats.
Fire all serving active-duty general and flag officers (GFOs) and impose a ten year moratorium on working for industry after retirement. Employ two phases: retire all flag officers with an odd number in their SSN in February 2025 and even numbered SSNs in March 2025. As of March 2024, the number of GFOs in the US Department of Defense (DoD) was 809. This was 48 fewer than the maximum of 857 authorized by law. Reduce the GFO authorization to 100 authorized by law immediately.
Relocate all 168 Foreign Embassies and 727 Consulates placed in the territory of United States to Greenland once it is acquired.
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Close the UN in New York and reflag it as Trump Tower. Relocate the 6500 NY UN personnel to Diego Garcia in Quonset huts or barges in the atoll.
There's more at the link.
Just think of the kerfuffle if the Trump team were to take such advice literally! It'd have a seismic impact on the USA. Unfortunately, it's not practical as written, but it contains a whole lot of things that I'd like to see implemented on as wide a scale as possible, given the constraints of reality.
I'm seriously thinking of recommending that FEMA staff be retroactively and immediately relocated to any and every disaster that they try to alleviate, 24 hours after it occurs. Let them live and work under the same conditions the survivors have to endure, and see how long their bureaucrats remain disdainfully ignoring the reality they're supposed to administer!
Peter
1 comment:
I've been suggesting that the U.N. be moved top Thule for some time. While civil service laws often makes it difficult to fire civil "servants", who have retired in place or committed fraud, nothing says that cannot be assigned to Elmendorf AFB or Pascagoulah.
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