To the editor: If the chief govt of any personal firm have been to conduct a “downsizing” as chaotically and cruelly as Elon Musk has as head of the so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity, he can be fired. (“Key agencies tell workers not to respond to Musk email demanding to know what they did last week,” Feb. 23)
Think about 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 completed within the final week, below risk 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 group with chainsaws and ship out demeaning cartoons on X oblivious to the anxiousness, 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 Individuals 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 critically affecting folks’s lives.
Carlos Mestas, Camarillo
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To the editor: There have been a number of letters to the editor lately asking why there was a lot outrage over the Trump/Musk downsizing of the federal forms.
In 1993, President Clinton inherited a bloated forms after the top of the Chilly Conflict. His administration systematically carried out a overview of federal businesses 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 executed 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 certain to end in immense collateral harm.
However inflicting such harm seems to be the objective of the present president.
Gabrielle Nurre, Albuquerque
