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"Although the exact number of Federal employees who have been – or will be – affected by widespread layoffs instituted the Trump administration is not immediately clear, recent reports suggest the current number of cuts tops 12,000.
This number is in addition to the roughly 75,000 Federal employees who have accepted the Trump administration’s “deferred resignation” offer. This program allows Federal employees to resign but be paid through Sept. 30."

FUCK YEAH BABY

EBGuy says

California teachers do not get (or contribute to) Social Security during their time teaching.

Not all, but most teachers do part time work. Men specifically. My BIL would get hired by a painter and paint decks and houses in the summer. W-2. A lot though would go for cash jobs.

He's dead now, but a lot of teachers fuck up big time. Get part time W-2 non-government work throughout the years. It's another check on top of the pension. Might be small, but better than nothing. Always pisses me off when teachers bitch about not getting SS. You didn't pay in and could have.

EBGuy says

California teachers do not get (or contribute to) Social Security during their time teaching.

Neither do railway workers, I believe.

Guv employees with other retirement plans can 'opt out' of SS payments, which they usually do, since the alternate Guv plans are better. I know the Lab guys in Livermore have very nice retirement plans and get to keep the SS dole to spend.

Congress don't pay SS either, because in addition to all the graft, bribery and insider training, they have fabulous medical and 'retirement' that they have self assigned.

SS used to be 15 percent off the top of the paycheck, with the payee paying half (7.5 percent) and the employer paying half. That's a lot over a working life for so little return at the end compared to standard investments. It's especially bloody painful when it is use to subsidize the illegals and doled out whatever grifty grafty way the politicians see fit to whomever. Now, add that to the insult that it is also laundered away, and somebody needs to be burned at the stake.

Ceffer says

Guv employees with other retirement plans can 'opt out' of SS payments, which they usually do, since the alternate Guv plans are better. I know the Lab guys in Livermore have very nice retirement plans and get to keep the SS dole to spend.

Congress don't pay SS either, because in addition to all the graft, bribery and insider training, they have fabulous medical and 'retirement' that they have self assigned.

Do the "lab guys" at the Livermore's get a state pension like CALPERS or do they get Federal Employee Retirement System ?

I think they "lab guys" are employees of the university which administers the federal lab

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AD says

Do the "lab guys" at the Livermore's get a state pension like CALPERS or do they get Federal Employee Retirement System ?

I think they "lab guys" are employees of the university which administers the federal lab

I don't know, but I would guess its the FERS. Our neighbors who worked for LLC said they didn't have to contribute SS.

The USDA says "several" staffers working on the bird flu response were terminated over the weekend, and "we are working to swiftly rectify the situation and rescind those letters."

$2B and she still can't afford an orthodontist or an ozempic prescription. . .

stereotomy says

$2B and she still can't afford an orthodontist or an ozempic prescription. . .

You don't get rid of a good chaw spitting hole.

No, CIA Mockingbird just gives him the dumbest lines to promulgate.

https://t.me/TheCatturd/5294

Now, tell us what you really think.

He's been confirmed.

Ceffer says

stereotomy says

$2B and she still can't afford an orthodontist or an ozempic prescription. . .

You don't get rid of a good chaw spitting hole.

If they gave her an enema, there'd be nothing left of her.

https://x.com/ThomasMHern/status/1891698187188011458

https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/1892348045553009109

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1892439128177856745

https://nypost.com/2025/02/10/us-news/doge-cancels-anthony-fauci-museum-exhibit-in-federal-cutting-spree/

DOGE scraps Fauci museum exhibit as part of $182M in cuts

He's cherry picking. I checked a few items, and they're much more expensive than I can get either locally or via my pals at AlldayChemist.

Patrick says

I don’t get it.