Department of Government Efficiency - DOGE

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A few things can help reduce government employment, and I am saying this as an executive in a government agency.

Comprehensive government wide staffing study. Determine how many people are needed to actually do the job. Shed dead weight through attrition/early retirement offers.
Mandatory retirement dates.
Any "physical" type job requires a medical clearance. Can't keep it? Bye.
Modernize. Automate as much as possible.
Reclassify employees out of bargaining unit positions. (bonus: crush the federal unions with extreme prejudice.)
Get fired from the government? You cant get rehired. I'm terminated an employee while they are in jail and I found out they have been fired twice before..
Lower/limit/remove government red tape = increase efficiency (unions hate that word efficiency)
Analyze what federal unions are proponents for. If it isn't safety related, do the opposite.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
A few things can help reduce government employment, and I am saying this as an executive in a government agency.

Comprehensive government wide staffing study. Determine how many people are needed to actually do the job. Shed dead weight through attrition/early retirement offers.
Mandatory retirement dates.
Any "physical" type job requires a medical clearance. Can't keep it? Bye.
Modernize. Automate as much as possible.
Reclassify employees out of bargaining unit positions. (bonus: crush the federal unions with extreme prejudice.)
Get fired from the government? You cant get rehired. I'm terminated an employee while they are in jail and I found out they have been fired twice before..
Lower/limit/remove government red tape = increase efficiency (unions hate that word efficiency)
Analyze what federal unions are proponents for. If it isn't safety related, do the opposite.
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Do away with ALL defined benefit retirement packages with the exception of military members that have actually been in combat zones. Give them all a card with 1-800 FIDELITY and a 401(k).
 
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SpaceCoastVol said:
Do away with ALL defined benefit retirement packages with the exception of military members that have actually been in combat zones. Give them all a card with 1-800 FIDELITY and a 401(k).
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We all have 401K's now. The pension only folks, oddly enough, are still here (they are like 70 years old) but slowly fading out. Our pensions (FERS) are (for non Air Traffic Control and LEO) 1% per year of your top 3 salaries. I believe there are plans to make that "top 5" salaries. The majority of folks only pull 20-30k in a pension and rely on their 401ks. Doing away with it all would be phased in and take decades to see any real results. I'd probably be dead by then.
 
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Grand Vol said:
Get rid of Congressional retirement packages...

I don't care how long you "served" in office. It was supposed to be public service, not a career and you've made enough from "campaign contributions" to last you.
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At least take them out of the federal bucket. They should be funded by the people they represent and nobody else. Let each state decide if they want to pay pensions or not.
 
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Move ALL government contracts to fixed price awards. The largest government contractors hate fixed price contracts which means that's probably the way we should go.

If you can't build it at what you said you could, you give up the right to finish the project and must turn over all work or fund it from internal means.

That would help make the bidding process more accurate and fair.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
At least take them out of the federal bucket. They should be funded by the people they represent and nobody else. Let each state decide if they want to pay pensions or not.
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Nope, gone entirely. There is no reason on this planet a Senator should serve five years (on a six year hitch) and get a pension.

As stated, they get enough from campaign contributions and lobbyists lining their pockets. The taxpayers should NOT be on the hook to continue to pay them.
 
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Grand Vol said:
Nope, gone entirely. There is no reason on this planet a Senator should serve five years (on a six year hitch) and get a pension.

As stated, they get enough from campaign contributions and lobbyists lining their pockets. The taxpayers should NOT be on the hook to continue to pay them.
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I’m not disagreeing with you. And yeah when created they were not a salaried position at all. Just trying to point out my federal tax dollars from Texas have zero business paying salaries for representatives from any other state. All payments to members of Congress in all forms.
 
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Grand Vol said:
Get rid of Congressional retirement packages...

I don't care how long you "served" in office. It was supposed to be public service, not a career and you've made enough from "campaign contributions" to last you.
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You'd have to redefine the civil service retirement since that is what they fall under. Most of them are FERS (FERS Information ) with some old timers on CSRS.
 
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Majors said:
Define how much fat needs to be cut, 500B? 2T? The left, no matter how much will see it as a dog and pony show and play the opposite card.
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Lot of variables. Is it a long term cut or just short term accounting shell game? Is it a reduction of the budget or is it rearranging chairs on the Titanic?

3-5% reduction in operating budget seems to be fair. What I will expect will happen is cutting 10B of wasteful stuff and replacing it with 12B of wasteful stuff...
 
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