i'm living just above paycheck to paycheck doing IT (could afford tickets to family this year, but used credit for groceries when I git back).
I see private sector job postings that pay more for my job, but after hundreds of applications since 2020... no one seems to hire people they don't know.
I worked for the Government for 12 years. I didn't see that anywhere ever. I worked with many great people who loved this country, though. Truly. On average, they are great people. It sucks that this angry knot of White Nationalist Broligarchy is allowed to treat all of them so goddamned awfully.
Elon & his merry band of DIGITAL BROWNSHIRTS. We are witnessing an electronic coup. Fight back! Confront the incels. Picket their lodgings. Write "Douche" on every Tesla you see. Egg Elon. Harass Fox News employees. Shout down GOP members. Protest and, most of all, shame those who have no shame.
He may be talking about people like me who have worked 40 some years for the Government and used Government's 401k Plan, the TSP, as authorized by law to save up to 15% of our annual income a year in the account. I thought work and savings were the way to build wealth, unlike Elon who inherited.
I know a few federal employees and none are wealthy. Main asset after 30+ years of service—not theft, corruption—is a legal federal 401k/IRA. Musk can rile up the MAGAs with his noise, but he’s produced no evidence of wrongdoing.
Let Elon decide whether rocket launch technology is more important than cancer research or school lunches! What could go wrong 🙄
Conflicts of interest law (18 U.S.C. § 208) prohibits govt employees from taking official action that could impact their financial interests (under 5 C.F.R. § 2635.402).
What is he calling himself out for 3 billion dollars in contracts, or the 400 million in armored tesla ordered, then the order getting altered to remove the tesla name?
What is the wealthy ‘line’ for the richest guy on the planet, anyway? No civil servant is making anything close to that. But congress…if they weren’t millionaires going in, they certainly are when they leave.
The highest paid Federal Workers don't much more than $200,000 a year. This is such bullshit, but the American public has totally bought the "government is the problem" lie while corporations and billionaires rob the country blind and get obscenely rich.
I have been a federal worker for 20 years! I am not rich! We are regular working ppl who care about our country and our community! This shit makes me sick because he is a literal parasite feeding off the government teet!
My ex husband was a federal worker. Some goons used to come around every 5 years to freak out our friends, family and neighbors with questions about our finances and to make sure our cars weren't too nice and shit.
The audacity of that lying POS. Unlike Musk (& Congress), civil servants are subject to conflicts of interest rules & ethics & fraud rules. The system long in place for dealing w/ that is through the OIGs, all of whom Trump is trying to boot. A civil servant can’t even accept a lunch tab pickup!
Also unlike Musk & his little DOGE nazi clown child army, non political career civil servants undergo *actual* background checks & financial disclosures, which get progressively more involved w/ the level of position & “public trust” factor. FUCK ELON MUSK
PLEASE someone…anyone…print out a copy of The Privacy Act of 1974 for that barely literate pathetic man-child & the rest of his fellow gremlins in the WH & spread out like fungi across gov’t agencies, JUST AS A START… https://bsky.app/profile/potrzebiesystem.bsky.social/post/3lhzpnbq5b22y
What he means is under the new mafia only the MuskRAT can defraud the orange don and the government and profit from it. Anyone who wants a democracy will be removed.
Federal workers, working for the people in a service role while Musk sucks the wealth from anyone and everyone. Or axes their assistance to let them suffer and possibly die.
Musk is so full of 💩.
“Neither Musk nor President Trump offered any evidence of corruption or improper enrichment that might explain federal employees allegedly getting rich off their government roles, and DOGE did not respond to Fortune’s request for examples.”
That’s a good article. Few journalists are able to distinguish between projections and appropriations, for instance, even when it’s written all over the document. It’s super frustrating, as someone who is also involved in reading and researching them.
@mmasnick.bsky.social Oh nooooo... People who _work_ were... _getting paid_ to do it? Getting paid enough to... _have money left over?_ Money for _luxuries?_ After doing the _job that I need them to do?_ An infrastructure job _I don't even think about until my meat is poisoned?_
Also like . . . yes, taxpayer money pays federal workers. Elon, that’s what a federal worker means. I would like my tax dollars to pay for federal workers to work that’s not fucking nefarious.
Welcome back, Mr. van Winkle. It's been an eventful 20 days, turns out we elected a South African weirdo as president somehow, and he's spent a fair chunk of his energy harassing workers and smearing the entire concept of civil service.
I have yet to meet a federal employee who is “getting wealthy at taxpayer expense.” Earning a dignified salary that’s commensurate with the valuable work they perform? Yes. Wealthy? Not unless they were already rich before entering public service.
Even if this idiot hadn't shown us time and time again who he is and what he's up to, would 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 disagree that this is a rather enormous conflict of interest in the best of circumstances? The line between that and corruption is rarely considered for even a second by those crossing it.
Elon Musk in charge of government efficiency? Sure, let’s scrap the IRS via X-post, make Congress a subscription service, and let an AI chatbot decide Supreme Court cases.
He should be DEPORTED! He's the scum of the earth and simply wants to destroy the middle class and the subjugation of our population to work for scraps from the Oligarchs tables! I REFUSE!
Same song
second verse..
Could get better
but gonna get worse………
Unless Americans take off the blinders and start paying attention!!
Perhaps: Check out some history books and brush up on some countries didn’t pay attention! Germany, Russia, the Philippines—
just to name a few!!
Not to nitpick, but I'd argue a better way to write it is with the truth first:
"The federal government has paid Elon Musk's companies more than $20 billion, yet he falsely claims federal workers are getting rich at taxpayer expense."
"The federal government has paid Elon Musk's companies more than $20,000,000,000, yet he falsely claims federal workers are getting rich at taxpayer expense."
Musk's haul is much bigger than $20 Billion. We are paying for his SpaceX R&D and then transferring the intellectual property to him. For example, this $38 million contract with the California Institute of Technology. (There's so much more of this). https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80NM0020F0072_8000_80NM0018D0004_8000
Today, Musk, or those taking his orders, illegally fired thousands of probationary employees, who are typically GS5-GS7s—so salaried at $35K-$42K. (Source below, which is publicly available info.)
I can’t comprehend being a billionaire targeting them, of all people.
Absolutely f...... crazy. They are not cutting down on waste
They are shifting funds away from the average US citizen and giving it to people set on destroying our nation.
Federal workers generally traditionally got paid less for equivalent credentials in the private sector. Some one should remind the public of that fact.
How does this sort of in-your-face bullshit not anger even Conservatives?! I just can’t wrap my brain around how astoundingly stupid these people actually are!
When have conservatives NOT meant what they say? They have a nasty habit of telegraphing their intent, and Progressive have a nasty, stupefying habit of not paying attention!
I read today that eliminating a full quarter of the federal workforce would save 1% of the federal budget. It's not about money. It's about stopping agencies from accomplishing their missions. Infuriating.
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I see private sector job postings that pay more for my job, but after hundreds of applications since 2020... no one seems to hire people they don't know.
Name one.
We'll wait.
Doggerel: no, not that government employee
SpaceX signed an initial, company-saving $1.6 billion contract with NASA in 2008.
Tesla received a critical $465 million loan from DOE in 2010.
But who needs government?
If this is true MUSK, show us the money and the proof... you BOZO!
https://www.jandehn.com/post/where-is-robin-hood
Elon Musk becomes the richest person from getting USA taxpayers 💰!
Elon Musk
= The biggest welfare recipient in the US history! 🤬
I know exactly zero wealthy federal workers.
Conflicts of interest law (18 U.S.C. § 208) prohibits govt employees from taking official action that could impact their financial interests (under 5 C.F.R. § 2635.402).
https://openomb.org/file/11410065#tafs_11410065--011-0041--3--2025
"According to available data, the average Social Security check for a single female is around $1,643 at full retirement age (age 67), "
then we get to listen to that idiot complain that SSers usually "waste" their money gambling or buying drugs.
Tax payers don’t actually create our money supply
Our government and banks create our money supply
On the doge website, he won employee of the month.🤔
Merry Xmas everyone!!
Anyone taking notes in your newsrooms?
POS
“Neither Musk nor President Trump offered any evidence of corruption or improper enrichment that might explain federal employees allegedly getting rich off their government roles, and DOGE did not respond to Fortune’s request for examples.”
What socialist […]
"Musk Companies Benefit From $20 Billion In Government Contracts, Complains Government Workers Are Overpaid"
Who, unlike Elon Musk, ARE taxpayers.
Just spit-balling ideas here...
Thankfully the Constitution prevents this.
https://medium.com/@leephillips.sr/elon-musk-as-head-of-the-department-of-government-efficiency-the-constitution-says-no-90a8e1b2edc0
Use the app from
5calls.org
PLEASE take fine minutes to make DAILY calls to your representatives. Scripts make it easy if you are not used to calling. 💪
Tell everyone YOU know to tell everyone THEY know!!
The rest of the federal workforce is NOT !!!
second verse..
Could get better
but gonna get worse………
Unless Americans take off the blinders and start paying attention!!
Perhaps: Check out some history books and brush up on some countries didn’t pay attention! Germany, Russia, the Philippines—
just to name a few!!
"The federal government has paid Elon Musk's companies more than $20 billion, yet he falsely claims federal workers are getting rich at taxpayer expense."
"The federal government has paid Elon Musk's companies more than $20,000,000,000, yet he falsely claims federal workers are getting rich at taxpayer expense."
I can’t comprehend being a billionaire targeting them, of all people.
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/salary-tables/pdf/2025/GS.pdf
CEOs of companies that have Federal contracts, ABSOLUTELY.
They are shifting funds away from the average US citizen and giving it to people set on destroying our nation.
"But he'll lower MY taxes..."
https://youtube.com/shorts/isEiygyttjo?si=Hd0GC4ebpTThxPFc