I don't watch TV, but from reading Internet sites and a few cautious conversations with liberal friends (the handful I still have), I gather none of this is being reported in the legacy media
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now we know where the writers of raiders of the lost ark got their inspiration
'Wasteful and dangerous': DOGE's top five most shocking revelations
Since its launch, Elon Musk's DOGE has uncovered billions in wasteful spending across the federal government
First of the five:
Musk reveals ‘Iron Mountain’ mine nightmare
Musk revealed this week that DOGE is investigating a limestone mine in Pennsylvania where federal employee retirements are processed manually.
"Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process takes multiple months," Musk announced on X.
Musk said only 10,000 federal employees can retire a month because it takes so long to process the paperwork and sort through the millions of manila envelopes. He described the "Iron Mountain" mine as a "time warp" slowing down a completely manual federal retirement process.
"The limiting factor is the speed at which the mine shaft elevator can move, determines how many people can retire from the federal government. The elevator breaks down sometimes, and then nobody can retire. Doesn't that sound crazy?" Musk told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday.
Thomas Jefferson said of federal bureaucrats, “Few die, and none retire”. Nothing’s changed; in fact, this system was designed to make sure that it didn’t.