To the editor: If the chief government of any personal firm had been to conduct a “downsizing” as chaotically and cruelly as Elon Musk has as head of the so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity, he could be fired. (“Key agencies tell workers not to respond to Musk email demanding to know what they did last week,” Feb. 23)
Take into account Musk’s report: Indiscriminate mass firings of workers with out regard to {qualifications} or efficiency; absurd calls for that Pentagon supervisors produce lists inside days of 1000’s of civilian workers to be fired; insulting necessities that authorities workers clarify what they’ve achieved within the final week, below menace of termination in the event that they don’t; and clueless terminations of workers who safeguard our nuclear arsenal (oops).
Within the face of criticism of this scorched-earth destruction of the federal workforce (will anybody ever need to work for the federal government once more?), President Trump and his wingman Musk mug for the gang with chainsaws and ship out demeaning cartoons on X oblivious to the nervousness, fears and uncertainty of each a type of fired workers.
No regular CEO would ever survive such a present of incompetence and cruelty.
Brian Gough, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: I together with many different People consider that we as a rustic overspend by way of our authorities. So, I respect the shut have a look at how our tax {dollars} are spent.
However because the saying goes, don’t use a cannon to kill a mosquito. Cautious, you could be severely affecting folks’s lives.
Carlos Mestas, Camarillo
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To the editor: There have been a number of letters to the editor just lately asking why there was a lot outrage over the Trump/Musk downsizing of the federal paperwork.
In 1993, President Clinton inherited a bloated paperwork after the top of the Chilly Conflict. His administration systematically carried out a evaluate of federal companies and departments. It diminished the federal workforce by 400,000 folks over a number of years.
There was no hue and cry as a result of it was accomplished in a considerate, thought-about and accountable method.
Few folks would disagree that the federal system must be overhauled. What so many are objecting to is the Trump administration’s slash-and-burn method, which is sure to end in immense collateral harm.
However inflicting such harm seems to be the purpose of the present president.
Gabrielle Nurre, Albuquerque
