Education Department Plans to Fire Up to Half Its Staff
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Reminds me of the sopranos where phil beats the shit out of one of tonys guys.
Phils guy say “jesus phil what was that”
Phil says “ a start”.
Screw them kids with learning and developmental disabilities.
And don’t forget how educational achievement has skyrocketed since the DoE was established.
This is the lady in charge of doing its. She’s been running a fashion influencer racket for her 800 followers from her office. Apparently that’s the type of thing you need to do to not get fired.
Trump official tasked with defending DOGE cuts posted fashion influencer videos from her office | CNN Politics
As the Office of Personnel Management oversaw the layoffs of thousands of federal workers and pressed others to justify their positions, the agency’s chief spokesperson repeatedly used her office for a side hustle: aspiring Instagram fashion influencer.
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I’ve been involved in facilitating a lot of layoffs and letting large swaths of people go over the years. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a group more genuinely giddy about people losing their jobs than the current crop of repubs.
Correlation how does it work?
Like this;
Usually when someone affiliated with the WWE enters into national politics bad sh!t happens and seemingly intelligent Americans show their ass by providing milquetoast defense.
They have been as long as I have been on this site.
The department is bloated to the point of craziness.
Gut it.
America's children will be much better off without the Department of Education interfering with their educations.
Again, you're ignorant. You know only what Elon and Trump tell you. Party of life has no clue how this is going to affect our nation's kids.
And you would know this how exactly?
The Department of Defense is the one in need of a trim. Cutting education is mostly political.
There’s probably some truth to it but ultimately none of us have no idea. All of these MAGA boyz raucously cheering on job losses of their fellow Americans are nothing more than fanboys cheering from the cheap seats that have replaced critical thinking with fanaticism.
So why do you assume that just because a job exists, it is useful and necessary? Culling happens in the private sector every day and in every industry at every company. It NEVER happens in the federal government, so I'm sure it is waaaaaay over due.
I’d be cool with cutting all spending to the DOE. As long as it goes straight into classrooms. More teachers, para teachers, supplies, etc. every study shows that’s the most useful thing for education spending. Which means we don’t need more studies.
Every private sector company experiences stagnated growth and regression at some point. There has never been a day since 1776 in which the USA did not grow in size. That doesn't mean there doesn't need to be some trimming. But the comparisons to private sector companies should be limited.
Then you should pay attention to where this appears to be heading...
As someone who routinely deals with both my state DoED and fed DoED there are real issues that could be addressed through thoughtful and measured reforms.
However, this isn’t the presidential admin or secretary of education to do that.
However, this isn’t the presidential admin or secretary of education to do that.
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So basically the other 50% of workers will now need to take on all of their responsibilities for the same pay.
Great job Trump and Musky and all of you who voted for them.
Great job Trump and Musky and all of you who voted for them.
My issue will be similar to the lottery. When we were told that’s all going to education. As long as the block grants are strictly towards education and can’t be used for Volleyball courts. It wouldn’t bother me. We have too many administrators already in education.
The sad part is they could have made DOGE incredibly popular by conducting a complete and methodical review of every department of the executive branch and recommended various cuts. Instead they just went in with a chainsaw and lots of dynamite without regard for the consequences.
Once again, government is not and should not be operated like a business.
And even in the private sector they don’t typically lay off half a company on a whim.
There are definitely units within government that should be run more like a business. However I agree that on the whole there are important functions of government that shouldn’t be looked at from a business efficiency standpoint.
An example: I spent a little over 2 years within the procurement operation of state government. We did everything we could to run like a business. During my time, the governor asked the heads of all agencies to find ways to revert money back to the general fund. The most successful agency in this endeavor was Child Services. They became a lean organization by instituting a hiring freeze and upping the number of kids each caseworker was responsible for tracking. The reverted nearly $60 million in one biennium. They also saw the number of children with an active DCS case who died go from non-existent to nearly 50 over a 4 year period. But son of gun they were efficient.
Phuck them kids (after they're born). 'Merica! Repubber style!
The problem when people want to run government like a business is that they forget businesses are meant to make money, and taking care of their consumers takes a back seat to that. In government, they’re ultimately meant to take care of people, which means that a certain amount of inefficiency is inevitable.
I’m all for reviewing and looking at ways to streamline things so that they don’t spend more spending money figuring how the best way to spend their money and just let people do their jobs.
I completely agree that there is wasteful spending. I just don't believe a foreign billionaire and a bunch of 19-20 year olds with hacking skills are the people to do it. You HATE wasteful spending but vote for the guys who blow up the debt every time they are in office. There's no logic in that.
America's children will be much better off without the Department of Education interfering with their educations.
now they'll be free to learn about how jesus rode dinosaurs
Versus "the little prince who is now a princess".
You are assuming that the amount of work one person could do 30 years ago remains constant so as the population increases, the more employees the DOE needs. That is not true. With modern technology, one person can do what it took many people to do in the past. That's called modern productivity and happens everywhere and the fact that the DOE is a public entity versus a private company is irrelevant.
