Elon Musk all about accountability and people doing a good job

Mar 6, 2025
Mar 6, 2025
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Editor,

Elon Musk is all about accountability and efficiency plus people doing a good job. That though raises a few questions:

(16) comments

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Ray Fowler Mar 6, 2025 8:51pm

Pssst! It's Jon Mays not Hays.

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Not So Common Mar 6, 2025 8:16pm

Jorg, your comment is personal and hateful. Regardless, Jon Hays will not block your comment, because Jon is prejudiced and hate filled like you. Is this a personal attack?

SMpool Mar 6, 2025 7:27pm

Good points Mr. Krainz. Unelected President Musk and his ketamine-fueled shredding of our government, including firing thousands of veterans and non-partisan workers, closing any program aiding the sick, old, and needy, comandeering formerly secure information at the Treasury and SSA, and eliminating any department with oversight on his exploding cars and spaceships is well on his way to steering us into a deep recession. Rel said it best in his comment (forgive me for stealing) so far 47 is halfway through his first 100 days and prices are going up - eggs, anyone? - the market is going down - more like crashing - our allies are being treated as enemies and our enemies as allies - we sided with Putin against Ukraine???!! - and the government is being shredded. I don't believe that anyone voted for this.

Terence Y Mar 7, 2025 8:56am

SMpool, you say, “I don't believe that anyone voted for this.” I’d say over 77 million voters voted for “this” and polls show that the vast majority of people continue to approve of Trump’s actions. BTW, for the most part, the “President Musk” tactic has been retired because it was not convincing. Since then, Dems have resorted to singing and holding paddle signs. Oh yes, and StreetFighter-esqe videos. It’s interesting that Trump created the Trump dance and it became a global hit yet when Dems have their dance, it’s described as “cringeworthy.” I’ll let viewers decide.

Not So Common Mar 6, 2025 1:08pm

Thanks Bob for helping Trump look Great! Each illegal immigrant squatter costs U.S. taxpayers $65,000 a year. Consequently, if it costs $1,000 to capture each illegal immigrant squatting in the USA, then we save $64,000 per squatter or 8,000 x $64,000 = $512 MILLION.

HFAB Mar 6, 2025 8:50am

Well said!

Terence Y Mar 6, 2025 8:36am

Thanks for your letter, Mr. Krainz, but you’re misunderstanding the point of the five bullet point email. We know Musk and all Cabinet members have a pulse but we don’t know whether all federal employees do. “Regular” companies are beginning to use the same tactic. As for what you’re hoping from Mr. Homan’s report, I’m fine with the cost. It’s likely that Mr. Musk’s effort will result in saving much more than it cost to deport invaders to our country. BTW, I’d recommend you visit doge.com to see what Musk and his band of merry men are up to. Eye-opening.

Ray Fowler Mar 6, 2025 8:30am

Good morning, Bob

Not a bad idea if we hold such an accounting up against what the border policies of the past four years have cost.

Rel Mar 6, 2025 11:53am

Good morning Ray.

You can do better in your commentary. Did Biden require federal employees give 5 bullet points of their activity? Where does President Musk get his authority? By no rule of law that exists that requires the employees answer to him.

Ray Fowler Mar 6, 2025 1:57pm

Hi, Rel

Bob wants accountability... that's fair. Let's apply the same to costs paid for the last administration's border policies. That's fair, n'est-ce pas? Those costs were paid with blood and treasure. While we're at it... maybe an accounting of the many, many billions of dollars sent to Ukraine by the past administration. That would be nice, too.

You make reference to "President Musk"... OK. Turnabout is fair play. Who was president during the last administration? It sure as heck was not Biden. Re: there is no hard requirement for any employees to respond with a list of five things they accomplished... don't you think their supervisors would want to know? Don't you think the American people would want to know? Don't you think those employees would want us to know what kind of job they're doing?

Rel... we're pals. We can be honest with each other. Refusal to do such a minor task is just resistance to the current administration. It's that simple. We saw defiance to the current administration during President Trump's remarks to Congress earlier this week.

How did that work out?

Rel Mar 6, 2025 6:14pm

It did not work out. Trump has all the power he needs to do good things in the world and try to unite the country. All he did yesterday in his address to Congress was throw red meat to his followers and deride his opposition. He is president to everyone yet he does nothing but heap praise on himself. I am willing to see what happens after the benchmark 100 days, but so far he is half way there and prices are going up, the market going down, our allies are being treated as enemies while our enemies are being treated as friends on the national scale, and government is being weakened on every scale.

Not So Common Mar 7, 2025 9:13am

Department of Government Efficiency

@DOGE

HUD completed the same audit. Initial findings on paid software licenses:

- 35,855 ServiceNow licenses on three products; only using 84

- 11,020 Acrobat licenses with zero users

- 1,776 Cognos licenses; only using 325

- 800 WestLaw Classic licenses; only using 216

- 10,000 Java licenses; only using 400

Maybe it's time to praise DOGE and Musk?

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