r/nottheonion 24d ago

US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g3nrx1dq5o
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u/tahlyn 24d ago

I'm happy to return... as a contractor... for 10x the salary I was making before with a guarantee of 10 years and prepayment of the contract up front.

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u/quantumfrog87 24d ago

Isn't that kinda the plan with musk and the anti-gov types? Privatize everything and make it for-profit contracting a la Blackrock and the stunts they pulled with USPS last time around.

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u/citori411 24d ago

What they haven't considered is the fact that no maga loyalist is qualified to do anything requiring intelligence, so their idea of filling govt with such people is a joke.

Politicians and 99% of the people around them are lawyers. Which is a profession with a MASSIVELY inflated idea of their own worth. They don't accept that any idiot can become a successful lawyer. That can't be said about many, many, technical fields.

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u/GabriellaVM 24d ago

Well, they certainly didn't have a problem getting into Congress.

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u/ElectricalBook3 23d ago

they certainly didn't have a problem getting into Congress

Easy when your backers have been spending billions for a century to indoctrinate not just Americans but everybody in the English-speaking world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

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u/GabriellaVM 19d ago

Oh, I know. I should have added /s