Elon Musk Unveils Insane Federal Government Retirement System Deep In a Cave!
100 Percent Fed Up ^ | February 11, 2025 | Staff
Posted on 02/12/2025 6:29:15 AM PST by Red Badger
Every day we learn something new from Elon Musk’s DOGE team….
Today we learned the absolutely INSANE process our Government uses for Federal Employee Retirements.
You wouldn’t think that would be anything special or weird, but it is!
For some reason, back in the 1950s, our Government decided that Federal Employee Retirements would be processed in an abandoned limestone mine in Pennsylvania, 230 feet underground.
Because….why not?
Is that the most insane and stupid thing you’ve ever heard?
INSANE! pic.twitter.com/rR1cH8XpsS— Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) February 11, 2025
Here is Elon in the Oval Office explaining it in more detail….
Public employee unions and politicians will look you in the eye and tell you a limestone mine shaft is the only way to do retirement paperwork and you’re just not sophisticated in the ways of the sacred bureaucracy if you think a better way might be LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE. https://t.co/vL7O0hyQJJ— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) February 11, 2025
So for some reason we buried all of this 230 feet below ground, we process everything in paper by hand, and we are literally limited by the speed of the one elevator shaft that breaks down frequently.
Are you freaking kidding me?
Meanwhile, President Trump has just signed a new Executive Order mandating that all Government Agencies work with DOGE:
Breaking DOGE Executive Order: Trump Signs EO Giving More Teeth To DOGE To Root Out More Waste Fraud And Abuse
Trump: WE'RE FINDING BILLIONS IN FRAUD—COULD BE A TRILLION
Alex Jones Breaks Down What The EO Means And Shows Highlights From The Press Conference
More Breaking News… pic.twitter.com/VqiKV3hUdk— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) February 12, 2025
Here is the Executive Order in full:
IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT’S “DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY” WORKFORCE OPTIMIZATION INITIATIVE EXECUTIVE ORDER February 11, 2025 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose. To restore accountability to the American public, this order commences a critical transformation of the Federal bureaucracy. By eliminating waste, bloat, and insularity, my Administration will empower American families, workers, taxpayers, and our system of Government itself.
Sec. 2. Definitions. (a) “Agency” has the meaning given to it in section 3502 of title 44, United States Code, except that such term does not include the Executive Office of the President or any components thereof. (b) “Agency Head” means the highest-ranking official of an agency, such as the Secretary, Administrator, Chairman, or Director, unless otherwise specified in this order. (c) “DOGE Team Lead” means the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Team at each agency, as defined in Executive Order 14158 of January 20, 2025 (Establishing and Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency”). (d) “Employee” has the meaning given to it by section 2105 of title 5, United States Code, and includes individuals who serve in the executive branch and who qualify as employees under that section for any purpose. (e) “Immigration enforcement” means the investigation, enforcement, or assisting in the investigation or enforcement of Federal immigration law, including with respect to Federal immigration law that penalizes a person’s presence in, entry, or reentry to, or employment in, the United States, but does not include assisting individuals in applying for immigration benefits or efforts to prevent enforcement of immigration law or to prevent deportation or removal from the United States. (f) “Law enforcement” means: (i) engagement in or supervision of the prevention, detection, investigation, or prosecution of, or the incarceration of any person for, any violation of law; or (ii) the protection of Federal, State, local, or foreign government officials against threats to personal safety. (g) “Temporary employee” has the meaning given to it in 5 C.F.R. part 316. (h) “Reemployed annuitant” has the meaning given to it in 5 C.F.R. part 837.
Sec. 3. Reforming the Federal Workforce to Maximize Efficiency and Productivity. (a) Hiring Ratio. Pursuant to the Presidential Memorandum of January 20, 2025 (Hiring Freeze), the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall submit a plan to reduce the size of the Federal Government’s workforce through efficiency improvements and attrition (Plan). The Plan shall require that each agency hire no more than one employee for every four employees that depart, consistent with the plan and any applicable exemptions and details provided for in the Plan. This order does not affect the standing freeze on hiring as applied to the Internal Revenue Service. This ratio shall not apply to functions related to public safety, immigration enforcement, or law enforcement. Agency Heads shall also adhere to the Federal Hiring Plan that will be promulgated pursuant to Executive Order 14170 of January 20, 2025 (Reforming the Federal Hiring Process and Restoring Merit to Government Service). (b) Hiring Approval. Each Agency Head shall develop a data-driven plan, in consultation with its DOGE Team Lead, to ensure new career appointment hires are in highest-need areas. (i) This hiring plan shall include that new career appointment hiring decisions shall be made in consultation with the agency’s DOGE Team Lead, consistent with applicable law. (ii) The agency shall not fill any vacancies for career appointments that the DOGE Team Lead assesses should not be filled, unless the Agency Head determines the positions should be filled. (iii) Each DOGE Team Lead shall provide the United States DOGE Service (USDS) Administrator with a monthly hiring report for the agency. (c) Reductions in Force. Agency Heads shall promptly undertake preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force (RIFs), consistent with applicable law, and to separate from Federal service temporary employees and reemployed annuitants working in areas that will likely be subject to the RIFs. All offices that perform functions not mandated by statute or other law shall be prioritized in the RIFs, including all agency diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives; all agency initiatives, components, or operations that my Administration suspends or closes; and all components and employees performing functions not mandated by statute or other law who are not typically designated as essential during a lapse in appropriations as provided in the Agency Contingency Plans on the Office of Management and Budget website. This subsection shall not apply to functions related to public safety, immigration enforcement, or law enforcement. (d) Rulemaking. Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) shall initiate a rulemaking that proposes to revise 5 C.F.R. 731.202(b) to include additional suitability criteria, including: (i) failure to comply with generally applicable legal obligations, including timely filing of tax returns; (ii) failure to comply with any provision that would preclude regular Federal service, including citizenship requirements; (iii) refusal to certify compliance with any applicable nondisclosure obligations, consistent with 5 U.S.C. 2302(b)(13), and failure to adhere to those compliance obligations in the course of Federal employment; and (iv) theft or misuse of Government resources and equipment, or negligent loss of material Government resources and equipment. (e) Developing Agency Reorganization Plans. Within 30 days of the date of this order, Agency Heads shall submit to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget a report that identifies any statutes that establish the agency, or subcomponents of the agency, as statutorily required entities. The report shall discuss whether the agency or any of its subcomponents should be eliminated or consolidated. (f) Within 240 days of the date of this order, the USDS Administrator shall submit a report to the President regarding implementation of this order, including a recommendation as to whether any of its provisions should be extended, modified, or terminated.
Sec. 4. Exclusions. (a) This order does not apply to military personnel. (b) Agency Heads may exempt from this order any position they deem necessary to meet national security, homeland security, or public safety responsibilities. (c) The Director of OPM may grant exemptions from this order where those exemptions are otherwise necessary and shall assist in promoting workforce reduction.
Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect: (i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or (ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations. (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
THE WHITE HOUSE, February 11, 2025.
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1 posted on 02/12/2025 6:29:15 AM PST by Red Badger
To: Red Badger
2 posted on 02/12/2025 6:31:09 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
To: Red Badger
I bet he is referring to the limestone caves in eastern Kansas City. My friend at the IRS used to go there to physically file things. The Jackson County Missouri Recorder of deeds has the old records in the limestone caves.
3 posted on 02/12/2025 6:33:07 AM PST by yldstrk (Nothing like the1 truth)
To: AbolishCSEU
It needs to get to the point where names are published and how much and when.
4 posted on 02/12/2025 6:33:21 AM PST by oldasrocks
To: Red Badger
The final deposition/archiving of hard records - an old limestone mine would be just fine. Excellent perhaps.
But moving the functional aspects of the office into said space? Someone’s idea of ‘efficiency’ back in 1970s, to keep the workers near the records, then government workers being government workers - the process becomes the alter upon which all must worship.
5 posted on 02/12/2025 6:36:38 AM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
To: Red Badger
Thanks Elon Musk and D.O.G.E. team. Why aren’t ANY of the 535 in CONgre$$ praising / thanking / helping Elon?
6 posted on 02/12/2025 6:37:49 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
To: AbolishCSEU
Saw an episode from Ozzie Osborne television show some years back when they visited the place. Have an unbelievable collection of songs. They even played one of Ozzies songs for him.
7 posted on 02/12/2025 6:38:56 AM PST by mware
To: PGalt
1. The ones that have profited from these grifts are pissed.
2. The ones that are profiting from these grifts are pissed.
3. The ones that haven’t yet profited are pissed.
8 posted on 02/12/2025 6:40:22 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
Mine is in there somewhere....at my last retirement class as part of the curriculum the instructor went through this very thing.
30 people in the class and we were all looking at each other shaking our heads in disbelief at the antiquated system.
If anyone can fix it Elon can.....thst is If he doesn’t get 100 roadblocks thrown in his path by democrats.
9 posted on 02/12/2025 6:41:06 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
To: Red Badger
Remember the “penny plan” that Congress could never bring itself to sign on to?
Looks like we need the “quarter” plan: reduce federal budgets by 25% across the board, then in the next year reduce them be 25% more.
Except we know Congress will never deliver on that either, given how much money they make on delivering pork-barrel spending instead.
So the president needs to be the tough guy. And actually, that was a good part of the role of the office historically. It turns out that only in the aftermath of the Nixon administration Congress passed a patently unconstitutional law to prevent presidents from exercising their traditional power of “impoundment”, or not spending funds that aren’t necessary, wise or within constitutional constraint. The Trump admin is setting up to challenge this.
Here is a great article on the historical and constitutional basis for impoundment: https://americarenewing.com/the-history-of-impoundments-before-the-impoundment-control-act-of-1974/
10 posted on 02/12/2025 6:46:07 AM PST by 9YearLurker
To: PGalt
“Why aren’t ANY of the 535 in CONgre$$ praising / thanking / helping Elon?”
Because he’s in the process of unplugging their ATMs.....when it comes out who was benefitting from these kickbacks democrats may never recover.....hopefully.
OBTW, anyone who thinks all Republicans hands are clean are sadly mistaken.
11 posted on 02/12/2025 6:48:04 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
To: Red Badger
Comforting to know bureaucrat retirement records will be safe from a nuke.
12 posted on 02/12/2025 6:52:25 AM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)
To: yldstrk
“I bet he is referring to the limestone caves in eastern Kansas City”
Salt mines.
13 posted on 02/12/2025 7:15:22 AM PST by dljordan
To: Red Badger
The 1950’s? If that’s the case, I suppose the reason was probably survivability and continuity of government in the event of a nuclear war.
We should arguably have done more of this, not less, but in any event ... in the event of a nuclear apocalypse, it is good to know that government pension benefits at least will continue normally.
14 posted on 02/12/2025 7:19:05 AM PST by sphinx
To: dljordan
15 posted on 02/12/2025 7:21:26 AM PST by yldstrk (Nothing like the1 truth)
To: dljordan
16 posted on 02/12/2025 7:23:42 AM PST by yldstrk (Nothing like the1 truth)
To: Red Badger
“I didn’t know this place existed.”
Feds: “it doesn’t!”
17 posted on 02/12/2025 7:23:54 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
To: Red Badger
Well, if it’s good enough for Batman . . .
18 posted on 02/12/2025 7:25:01 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
To: Red Badger
“We must not have a Retirement Mine Shaft Gap!”
19 posted on 02/12/2025 7:28:21 AM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
To: Red Badger
Probably continuity of government planning. Even in a nuclear war those government retirements will be processed. :-)
20 posted on 02/12/2025 7:31:26 AM PST by plain talk
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