On 2/18/2025 8:03 PM, JAB wrote:
USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now
trying to rehire them
An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials
are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716
I'd be more concerned about who the people working for Elon Musk than
Musk himself. Those are the people making the decisions. Is there any accountability?
Those are the people making the decisions.
Accountability will come only with the full evolution of the now ongoing >train wreck that will embrace us all.
Accountability will come only with the full evolution of the now ongoing >train wreck that will embrace us all.
On 20 Feb 2025 03:31:22 -0400, Mike Spencer
<[email protected]e> wrote:
Accountability will come only with the full evolution of the now ongoing
train wreck that will embrace us all.
Economist Warns That Elon Musk Is About to Cause a "Deep, Deep
Recession"
"This is going to be very, very bad."
A professor and former Department of Labor economist is warning that
unelected White House advisor and multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon
Musk is sending the United States headlong into a huge recession.
In a post on Bluesky, Jesse Rothstein, a University of California,
Berkeley public policy professor who was the DOL's chief economist at
the start of the Obama administration, addressed the dire situation we
could soon be facing.
"It seems almost unavoidable at this point," Rothstein wrote, "that we
are headed for a deep, deep recession."
https://futurism.com/economist-elon-musk-recession
Haha.. an economist from the public sector complaining about cuts in the >public sector. This is pathetic!
Cargo cult government. The president and his appointees, Musk and his Musketeers are Dunning-Kruger poster children, tearing around
emulating the rituals of the despised Elite [1]. They have no more
notion of how to operate the government that the deluded Melanesians
had of operating aircraft or airfield towers. But like the Melanesian islanders, they're convinced by a charismatic leader that if they
perform the rituals, they'd get cargo -- in this case power and status
rather than tangible goods.
Accountability will come only with the full evolution of the now ongoing train wreck that will embrace us all.
[1] Viz. people of responsibility that know what they're doing.
The only way forward is to go full blast towards the crash.
JAB wrote:
USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now
trying to rehire them
An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials
are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
JAB wrote:
USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now
trying to rehire them
An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials
are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
JAB wrote:
USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now
trying to rehire them
An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials
are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:11:13 -0700, Retrograde
<[email protected]d> wrote:
The only way forward is to go full blast towards the crash.
They have no economic model for predicting the outcome(s) as they
slash away. Intertwined economic relationships exist...taking down a
big ship means smaller supply ships suffer consequences.
And of course, tax revenues decrease as they slash away....
On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:42:29 +0100, D <[email protected]> wrote:
Haha.. an economist from the public sector complaining about cuts in the
public sector. This is pathetic!
If the cuts are deep enough, they will affect other businesses
bottom-line.
His view, as you say, "this is the truth."
Those public workers will then be getting new
entry-level private sector jobs
On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:45:02 +0100, D <[email protected]> wrote:
Those public workers will then be getting new
entry-level private sector jobs
Is Musk hiring at X ?
On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:54 +0100, D <[email protected]> wrote:
Maybe? ;)
Highly unlikely in Kansas City those fired will find a job in the
private sector. Firing IRS workers means the big tax cheats will have nothing to fear.
"While federal workers brace for more changes and fear for their
livelihoods, economists warn that any major reduction in federal jobs
-- and the inevitable disruptions in government services that follow
-- could be devastating to Kansas City's economy."
https://thebeaconnews.org/stories/2025/02/03/kc-federal-workers-braces-for-job-cuts-as-trump-plans-purge/
So what is happening to them is karma.
Maybe? ;)
On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:34:29 +0100, D <[email protected]> wrote:
So what is happening to them is karma.
Your karma credit card is like vaporware....
Firing IRS workers is not Kosher.
Firing IRS workers is not Kosher.Of course it is.
On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:06:59 +0100, D <[email protected]> wrote:
Firing IRS workers is not Kosher.Of course it is.
If there was an AI program to find all tax cheats, then a minimum
staffing is needed.
Musk wants to AI-ize FAA, but since he talks about fraud/etc., he
should have attempted to AI-ize IRS....
but now we're talking when it comes
to working smarter!
I am against all taxes on principle
On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:44:17 +0100, D <[email protected]> wrote:
but now we're talking when it comes
to working smarter!
I'm opposed to HAL 9000 flying airplanes...a PIC is needed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARJ8cAGm6JE
On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:44:17 +0100, D <[email protected]> wrote:
I am against all taxes on principle
I'm not aware of a tech-based society existing without some economic
means for supporting a military/etc.
March 8, 1996
Flat tax legislation sponsored by Rep. Dick Armey (R-Tex.) and
endorsed by presidential candidate Malcolm S. "Steve" Forbes, Jr.
would raise taxes on the vast majority of Texas families, while
showering enormous tax cuts on very wealthy people such as Forbes
himself.
Armey's flat tax bill calls for a 20% tax on wages, fringe benefits
and self-employment earnings, with exemptions for interest, dividends
and capital gains. The flat tax rate is supposed to fall to 17% after
two years-the figure usually cited by Forbes-but, in fact, the rate
would actually have to be considerably higher than the proposed 20% to
avoid enormous additions to the federal budget deficit.
A computer microsimulation analysis of the effects of the Armey-Forbes
flat tax plan on Texans by Citizens for Tax Justice finds that under
the plan at its proposed 20% tax rate:
Federal revenues would plummet by at least $49 billion a year.
Despite these huge revenue losses, the vast majority of Texans-all
income groups but the top 4.6% of Texas families-would pay higher
federal taxes.
In contrast, the very best-off Texans-the 1.1% making more than
$200,000 a year-would see their federal taxes cut in half.
CTJ also found that if the flat tax rate is increased to avoid revenue losses:
Federal taxes would increase on all Texas income groups except the
best off 1.1%.
Texans in the $20,000 to $75,000 income ranges would face tax
increases of 24% to 70%. That would mean $900 to $1,900 a year in
higher federal taxes for these families.
(A February CTJ analysis found that under his flat tax plan, Steve
Forbes personally would save a total of $1.9 billion over the rest of
his lifetime.)
"Because the flat tax cuts taxes so drastically on super-rich people
like Steve Forbes, it inevitably means much higher burdens on everyone
else," noted CTJ director Robert S. McIntyre. "Our new analysis
quantifies the size of those increased burdens on residents of Texas."
https://ctj.org/dick-armey-steve-forbess-plot-to-raise-taxes-on-most-texans/
I'm opposed to HAL 9000 flying airplanes...a PIC is needed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARJ8cAGm6JE
Why?
On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:25:01 +0100, D <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm opposed to HAL 9000 flying airplanes...a PIC is needed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARJ8cAGm6JE
Why?
A faulty sensor or off calibrated sensor can fool HAL, unless all
"what ifs" are within programming.
Autonomous vehicles ain't there yet....
A faulty sensor can throw off a pilot as well.
Much easier to automate
I'm opposed to HAL 9000 flying airplanes...a PIC is needed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARJ8cAGm6JE
Why?
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