ThunderHorse
Verified Military
I work with training simulators. Our growth has been explosive in a building from the 80's. Without a massive new complex, we have no hope of seating all of our people. As training sims continue to grow, our footprint will grow accordingly. Anyone want to fund that project?
Does our Federal gov't need some trimming? Absolutely. Should we trim with a chainsaw or pruning shears? In the long run, a chainsaw will bite us in the ass. That's the problem I have with some of the EO's: we need to cut in layers, not a wholesale lopping off of trees. We need to cut our Federal workforce over time and with some targeted cuts, not this Kool Aid man approach.
Maybe that is the thing. Toss out the buyouts and RTO and see what sticks, see who leaves, and re-evaluate in 6-12 months. Maybe that's the plan and it fits Trump's MO. Trump comes across as a bull in a china shop, but I think that's more for show than anything. Like the tariffs, Trump is stick-carrot, not carrot-stick. What I fear is what we're seeing which is Musk and his acolytes, some of whom are barely out of high school, wielding extraordinary amounts of influence.
I really, really wish we had Jared Kushner as Trump's right-hand man instead of Elon. Elon's out of his depth on this one.
So I'm reading through all of this stuff and I would bet dollars to donuts the government has more chairs than it has bodies or at least the amount of bodies doesn't far exceed chairs. BUT where those chairs are allocated is the problem. There are ton of agencies that have leased office space that don't even have a single employee to walk in and utilize that lease. Which should not be a surprise I guess.