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Bro I can tell you we have this native Australian kind of shrub, it's called kangaroo paw, when you dig the bulbs out you see why, they're shaped exactly like a kangaroo paw, it's uncanny. Also this plant will slice your fingers open if you try pulling the reeds, despite not otherwise being a dangerous plant. I found extreme poisoning with glysophate in the bulbs makes digging bulbs out a lot easier. I mean since Elon mentioned removing the weeds.
I'm not sure about America's burocracy but I do know the precedent for this and the only case we really know about was Margaret Thatcher's changes in England. I mean England was almost communist when Thatcher got into power. The government was making all kinds of British cars. I think the government was in coal mining, the government owned a lot of housing which are called council estates. Not unlike Yeltsin's Russia, Thatcher just went ahead and sold off the government assets, eg., housing, to individuals.
I know when I was full time with the buses I totally approved of the right wing New South Wales government's desire to privatise the buses, it was an absolute no brainer. It was quite a change coming from taxi driving, basically being like a street fighter, to this unionised environment. On the other hand you get these folks like my father or even Trump who go to special colleges that groom folks to become corporate leaders. I mean Trump's father was already doing pretty well. I mean a lot of CEOs go to particular colleges, they're not necessarily business people like Trump or Musk, they won't give a shit about firing large amounts of folks. I know my father went to college with folks at his CEO like college that ended up running Mercedes Benz in Spain or whatever. One of my father's college soccer teammates went on to First division soccer league in Spain, my father was the team captain.
Back to the buses, whether I'm a 'wound collector' or malcontent or disruptor, I'll tell you we had guys in the overstaffed burocracy who were scared to lose their jobs. I wasn't afraid to run their faces in it reminding them they'd be made redundant and shouldn't be having long lunches, they even tried to get me fired probably just based on that. I also recall a regular rank and file bus driver who was coming to Sydney from Newcastle after retiring out of the NSW police to continue a few years longer incrementing his government pension as we were still with the government at this time, he seemed like a genuinely likeable guy however our paths only crossed briefly like ten minutes or so on a train ride. But back to the wasteful burocracy, yes we had this for decades in Sydney's government owned buses and these guys had no get up and go as people get institutionalized and can't readily leave and just start a gardening business or something.
I noticed this institutionalized effect also in downtown Los Angeles, spending five months or so at a homeless shelter every night, with few nights' exception. One fellow there had spent four years in the shelter after a long stint in jail. It seemed the circumstances of the homeless shelter, two hundred or so black men, security guards, free food and bed, a blanket, reminded him of communal life in jail so he was comfortable with that. No desire to leave.
I guess bottom line, American federal government workers being retrenched need a streamlined process for advice on resituating themselves.
Also some of these pensions are incredibly expensive and it's unclear if firing American government workers can save money if they become entitled to complete paid leave. I was amazed at one California white guy I knew, how much pension money the California police were getting.
Livestream, United States Senate hearing on defunding US government....
https://www.youtube.com/live/8aNlWN7Q_Aw?si=NtBthgO41ifTa3-q
Listening to these Washington DC politicians talking on this Livestream, reminds me of my auntie Rosa, an airline stewardess for decades for Spain's national airline, talking about some really out of the way places in Canada where it would be extremely cold and the only thing to do in a little town would be go to the one local store and sit around the fire and listen and talk.... Rosa ended up dying of lung cancer, ironically she wasn't a smoker but her husband was a chain smoker.
By the way, the bus job is the only job I ever had with paid holidays. I also paid off my student loan debt there. In China a high up in the communist party I worked for did pay me a bonus to cover my flight out of China after I quit her job. China's a funny place (funny as in strange).
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