Anonymous ID: 2eb31d Nov. 27, 2024, 5:44 p.m. No.22068336   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Two Syrian soldiers captured by HTS (ISIS) Zionist lapdogs. Violent clashes erupt between the Syrian army and HTS in western Aleppo.

I ask again, is this a coincidence HTS (ISIS) launch this offensive the day of the Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire?

Anonymous ID: 2eb31d Nov. 27, 2024, 6:13 p.m. No.22068489   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8491 >>8681

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>American Federation of Government Employees

https://archive.is/qHlPS

Two Replies to Musk and Ramaswamy’s DOGE Plan

The American Federation of Government Employees and Planned Parenthood respond.

Regarding Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s op-ed “The DOGE Plan to Reform Government” (op-ed, Nov. 21): Our union, the American Federation of Government Employees, represents more than 800,000 government workers. Federal employees across America inspect our food, protect us from dangerous criminals, patrol our borders, care for our veterans, issue Social Security benefits and preserve our national parks and monuments. More than 642,000 of them are veterans. I’m a veteran of the Army and a retired Defense Department employee.

I don’t argue that there’s no government waste or inefficiency or that government employees can do no wrong. Any large organization can do better, and 10,000 federal employees are fired every year for that reason.

But let’s be honest about where the waste, fraud and abuse is happening. I’ve seen firsthand the waste resulting from for-profit, private contractors milking the government for all it’s worth. The U.S. spent $759 billion last year on private contractors, an increase of $33 billion from the year before. That’s 3.5 times the budget of the entire Environmental Protection Agency.

These contractors work side by side with civil servants whose compensation totals only a third of that—about $271 billion annually. While the contract workforce has ballooned each year, the size of the civil service hasn’t changed since 1967, even as the U.S. population nearly doubled.

Then there’s the estimated trillion dollars in tax the Internal Revenue Service fails to collect each year because of sophisticated tax evasion, the $72 billion in improper payments by Social Security last year and the $60 billion a year in Medicare fraud as well. This is what the average, honest taxpayer wants to stop.

Our union is willing to work constructively with DOGE and the Trump administration to cut the real waste, fraud and abuse in government spending. After all, efficiency is more than cuts; it’s about making services better for the Americans who count on them. But let’s do so in a way that makes both dollars and sense.

Everett Kelley

President, American Federation of Government Employees

Washington

Anonymous ID: 2eb31d Nov. 27, 2024, 6:13 p.m. No.22068491   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8681

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>The American Federation of Government Employees and Planned Parenthood respond.

Messrs. Musk and Ramaswamy make clear that they will use their future positions of power to target and attempt to “defund” Planned Parenthood. This reckless move would strip millions of people—especially the most vulnerable—of life-saving health services, including birth control, STI testing and treatment and cancer screenings.

The first Trump administration came with catastrophic consequences for access to healthcare. Now, more than 44% of women of reproductive age—including half of all black women—live in states that bar them from accessing the full range of reproductive healthcare.

The “federal overspending” that Messrs. Musk and Ramaswamy are railing against ensures that thousands of people have access to essential sexual and reproductive healthcare every day. If they get their way, that care will disappear.

Messrs. Musk and Ramaswamy would have you believe Planned Parenthood gets a blank check from the federal government. In reality, like any other healthcare provider, Planned Parenthood affiliates are reimbursed for the health services they provide to patients, ensuring that no one is turned away for care regardless of their ability to pay.

We fought these defunding efforts during President Trump’s first term, and we won’t back down now. Despite repeated attacks, Planned Parenthood health centers are still standing and serving millions of patients. We will continue to fight to keep health center doors open to all no matter what.

Alexis McGill Johnson

President and CEO, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

New York