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
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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.
Inform the UN all diplomatic immunities will be revoked in 30 days and all staff will be subject to arrest and incarceration if convicted of a crime. Then hire one of the controlled demolition companies to implode everything as soon as the buildings can be configured after the 30 days is complete. Let them move to Brussels, I imagine the EU buildings will be free soon.
This would be just a start for the housekeeping that is needed to clean up the massive mess that poses as a "government".
@ Anonymous
I've known some very pleasant, hard-working people who are/had been assigned to Thule (0r Pituffik as it's known at present):
I wouldn't do that to them.
Sturge Island in the Balleny Island group, though, might accomdate all of them
I resent that remark. The Balleny Islands are a dependency of New Zealand where I live. We don't want that lot of scroungers, bludgers and parasitic leeches in any way, shape or form associated with New Zealand.
Dropping them into the sea wearing life jackets midway between New Zealand and the Islands would be an acceptable compromise.
Phil B
Civil Service ended December 31, 1983.
FERS has been the retirement system since then. They'll tell you they're employees , not servsnts.
The 94 USA are usually replaced by every new Administration.
Just oust the UN. Hold a moving sale to cover the unpaid parking tickets, etc.
Let them find their own way home, or to the new headquarters
As the saying "A good first start".
Regardless, it is going to be uphill, both ways, on foot, in the snow, chased by wolves, polar bears and alligators.
I've considered that the U.N. should be moved every 2 years. Lagos is a good start. When the move is made, the U.S. ends any foreign aid to that country for the 2 years. There is usually so much grifting from the UN salaries that few should miss the loss of foreign aid.
Then to Shiraz (not Teheran) for 2, Port-au-Prince, Khartoum, and finally Harare. After those 10 years, no one would be willing to serve as UN ambassador, effectively ending the UN as an organization. Western nations should stay out of the UN anyway.
As a former Assistant U S Attorney for 35 years, I will endorse this comment. It is the prevailing practice for all US Attorneys to tender their resignations so that an incoming president may replace them if he or she so chooses. Usually all but a handful are replaced with persons of the incoming president's preference.
Yep, put 'their' fancy boots on the ground and see how they like it... And the same with Red Cross leaders...
Immediately move all administrators to a 401k with 4% match, and stop offering pensions to all new hires. No pensions for elected offices, to go with term limits and raise the qualifying time for
nonmilitary employees to Collect their pensions to 30 years' continuous employment. All offices will be relocated to where they can best serve theirnstakeholders. USDA goes to the midwest, NOAA to Maine and Alaska, NIH to Detroit, Indian Affairs to a reservation and PBS to Sault ste Marie.
"We don't want that lot of scroungers, bludgers and parasitic leeches in any way, shape or form associated with New Zealand."
And how would you see any difference in NZ government or bureaucracy? 😁
My Uncle Bob was assigned to Thule in the Air Force. "I'd shoot my commanding officer and then myself before going there again."
So in short I endorse your idea, but can we require them to build using minimum insulation. Cuz global warming will warm up the building eventually.
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