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Addition to Week 2

This week, a large number of federal employees got a buy-out offer:


In a separate email sent on Tuesday entitled “Fork in the Road,” most federal workers were effectively offered an eight-month severance package to leave their jobs, simply by sending hr@opm.gov a message with the word “Resign” in the subject line between now and February 6. Military personnel, postal workers, and national-security and immigration officials are not eligible.​
The Executive branch has no authority to offer those buyouts or deferrred resignations. What about those working in the IRS? Who will process our tax refunds? Who will make sure Social Security is working? Who will be working to make sure Medicare bills are pain?

Earlier in the week, Trump stopped all federal grants and loans causing a great deal of confusion and fear.
The Office of Management and Budget sent a vaguely worded two-page memo to all federal agencies Monday night directing them to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance" that could conflict with President Donald Trump's agenda.​
The following morning, nonprofit organizations said they were unable to get into a system used to access federal funds to pay for expenses, like salaries and rent.​

It had to be rescended and is in court.

Then yesterday, Musk and his buddies hack the OBM and locked out career employees from their computers.
According to Reuters, since taking the office for the second time, US President Donald Trump has initiated a sweeping overhaul of the federal workforce while sidelining numerous civil servants and installing loyalists in key positions. The team of Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reportedly set up living arrangements in the OPM headquarters to facilitate the continuous work.​


Are Musk's buddies vetted? Do they have security clearance to see the work records of all federal employees?

Why are they doing this? Rachel Maddow had a segment discussed what is behind this hostile takeouver of the government The segment is in the video below. One man speaks for about 10 seconds then it is Rachel Maddow.




So who is this Curtis Yarvin? He has influenced a number of wealthy men and J.D. Vance. Are Americans going to stand by and let the Federal government be torn apart so that it could be remade as a corportation that has a CEO who is effectively a dictator? According to Yarvin, Americans need to get over their fear of distators. ???
That is very unAmerican imo. Americans do not want a king. For 250+ years, America has resisted any attempt to have a dictator. Our fathers, grandfathers fought against a dictator during WWII. What Musk and Vance and Trump are doing is a slap in the face or memory of every WWII vet, Korean vert and VietNam vet.
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