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On Government Employees: Government And Nuance

I am ready to catch some flake for this one, but bring it on. It is good to rattle the cage a bit occasionally.

I have been a ‘dissident but also against the anti-gov crowd’ (ironic, and possibly absolutely absurd/contradictory) for years now. But let me first explain.

For instance, in “The Blind Fear Of Government Misses The Mark”, I wrote:

Older generations have this innate fear of government which blindsides them to the fear they should have: of all centralizers. The government is certainly one piece to the puzzle of tyranny, but it’s not the only one, nor the only path to it. Ironically, the government is the only piece that is actually at least somewhat accountable to the populace. International corporations, cultural markers, and the intelligentsia certainly aren’t in any respect.

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The older generations have kept a watchful eye to make sure government doesn’t overstep its bounds. Even if that means letting corporations, cultural institutions, and the intelligentsia trample over them with absolutely no restrictions. “That’s fine, so long as the government isn’t the one doing it”, they said. But the end result is the same: authoritarianism. Just procured through different initial means.

They missed the mark, because eventually these centralizers will get powerful enough that they can indirectly control that government through various means within their own arena. And once they have every single power institution in the nation, it doesn’t matter what the people think or do anymore. It’s irrelevant.

It’s the slogan: “Don’t tread on me”, solely directed at the government. But apparently when every cultural institution, institutional authority, and corporation treads on them, then it’s fine. We don’t want the government lining us up against the wall, but if corporations starve us to death and cultural institutions enact a vigilant-witchhunt against us, that’s just “freedom”.

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The problem, as always, is the centralizers. All of them, not [just the government].

Not only do I still agree with this, but I feel even more strongly about it now. The state is just one piece of a much larger puzzle. If you only focus on that piece, you’ll miss the greater picture.

The imaginary older generation boogeyman of the “government” is not our only enemy, or even our primary one. The worst elites are embedded outside of the state; hiding in financial, geopolitical, and cultural positions.

Because of this, I am a contrarian on the widespread ‘anti-government employees’ narrative found on the Right (in both mainstream and dissident circles).

I do not hate government employees. In fact, I do not really think they are much of a problem at all.

Even further, I like a lot of them. And I encourage our guys to join their ranks where possible. We should be taking over the institutions, not abandoning them.

Of course, the state is no friend to us. We have plenty that are bad. Federal agents in the DHS/FBI or CIA operatives are probably not somebody I would become best friends with. Or even want to know in my personal life.

But they are the exception when you speak about government employees. The average Fed is somebody maybe making the median income while working some desk job somewhere. They manage BLM land or do some data stuff with social security.

The average Fed is not some special agent hunting you down for not paying your taxes. That is less than 1% of all Feds.

The average Fed is not exactly a nefarious enemy of the people.

But if you listen to demons like Elon Musk, you would think government employees are simultaneously maliciously targeting all of us Americans with all of their might—and never actually doing any real work at all—both at the same time. Somehow. Magically.

Just read ridiculous pieces like this one (People genuinely think like this):

“The Manhattan Project” Of Our Time: Musk And Vivek Ramaswamy To Head Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have been selected by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), where they will “slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” according to an official release from the Trump-Vance transition team, which called this “potentially, the “Manhattan Project” of our time.”

According to the statement, “Their work will conclude no later than July 4, 2026” – the nation’s 250th anniversary.

Musk previously predicted he could cut at least $2 trillion from the US federal budget, while Ramaswamy suggested firing federal workers based on their social security numbers.

“Here’s how: if your [Social Security number] ends in an odd number, you’re fired,” he wrote on X.

In September, Ramaswamy told podcaster Lex Fridman: “Get in there on day one, say that anybody in the federal bureaucracy who is not elected, elected representatives obviously were elected by the people, but the people who are not elected, if your social security number ends in an odd number, you’re out, if it ends in an even number, you’re in. There’s a 50% cut right there. Of those who remain, if your social security number starts in an even number, you’re in and if it starts with an odd number, you’re out. Boom. That’s a 75% reduction done. Literally, stochastically, okay, one of the virtues of that, it’s a thought experiment, not a policy prescription, but one of the virtues of that thought experiment is that you don’t have a bunch of lawsuits you’re dealing with about gender discrimination or racial discrimination or political viewpoint discrimination.”

Personally, I would prefer to fire foreigners like Ramaswamy rather than our own people. But apparently I am just out here in the [right] field, all alone, even among many other dissidents.

Below, I summarize my take on the DOGE/Anti-Government Employees lunacy for those who won’t take the time to read the full piece:

• Having two literal (millionaire) foreigners fire or otherwise make miserable heritage White Americans working a government job is not a victory. If you think it is, I would encourage you to re-analyze your priorities.
• Libertarians are the ones that care about money, not people. Those of us truly on the Right should not think like that. People matter more. “What is in the best interest of our people?” Should always be the question we ask. Not “how do we make xyz more efficient for corporate executives?”
• I would rather have a Big Gov full of our people working for the betterment of our land and people than a small Gov run by foreigners and focused on money.
• With all the issues we have right now (demographic replacement, possibility of world wars, a major apostasy away from Christianity), screwing over the average working joe in some government job should not be a priority or a cause for celebration.

The True Government Numbers

Nearly everything these guys are saying is false, by the way. It is just an outright lie. They use the stereotypical narrative of ‘lazy government employees just soaking up all the private sector wealth’ that the boomers invented in the 1970s.

But time has passed. It is no longer the age of hippies, a majority white California, and disco. Things have changed.

Also, whether or not anyone likes it, the actual data does not support their theories.

A long time ago, I did a thorough analysis into the subject because I was curious. As it turns out, government employees actually do not even take that much of the overall budget.

Even if you fired half of government employees, it really wouldn’t do anything to our overall debt problem. Our money problem goes a lot deeper than paying for Sally at the post office to sort mail for $15 an hour. We simply aren’t spending that much on the Feds.

Face the facts, even if you aren’t happy about it:

Out of the $6 trillion in annual spending, ~$305 billion (debatable) comprises federal employees’ payroll (excluding military personnel). That amounts to just 4% of the budget.

Why is the new focus on the 4% and not the other 96% of expenditure?

Why is everyone so focused on harming our own people, making the 4% and not focused on the corrupt system that allows an outside 96%?

Government jobs are not increasing in amount or cost compared to the past. They track consistently with inflation. Why the sudden concern now?

What this is, is clear (to me): it is a libertarian-type virtue signaling about a nonproblem. Which also serves to distract us from the real problems impacting us that I listed above.

Additionally, it goes even deeper than that.

The True Reason The Elites Don’t Like The Feds

Does no one see the connection that the wealthy elite want to fire a bunch of government employees, but then increase the amount of H-1Bs? Am I the only one not blind here?

These guys want to fire federal employee Sheniqua so that they can replace her with a federal contractor on an H-1B just off the plane from SomaliTurkHinduIstan.

These elites also care more about reducing the amount of regulations targeting them, and reducing the amount of federal employees who would actually enforce regulations against them. Two things that are NOT major cost centers for the U.S. gov, but are suspiciously the Musk-types’ priority focus. This won’t reduce the debt by any meaningful sense, but it surely will make them wealthier and more powerful, with fewer people keeping them accountable.

And this is good for us? How? How does randomly harming your fellow citizens help you out? Please tell me how does helping the isolated class run even more amok without regulations help us out?

It is clear why the elites are targeting government employees and regulations. It is not because it will reduce government operating costs.

Open your eyes. It is clearly for their own benefit at the cost of our own people working in those jobs.

Also, does anyone seriously think the government would just not spend that money? Do you really think they are going to put that money in the savings bank or use it to pay off the debt? If so, call me, ’cause I have an ocean to sell you on Mars.

Public Versus Private

I know we have a trend in the dissident sphere to think “private sector = production” and “public sector = leeches”, but this is the mindset of someone from the 60s or 70s. Stop holding on to that ancient mindset. The world has changed.

Guess what? Private is just as bad. The reality is that there are incredibly few “producers” at all (in the strict legalistic sense) since the U.S. transitioned into a knowledge economy. I don’t know what to say besides get over it; stop living in the past. It is what it is.

Before anyone gets all huffy, this is coming from someone that would be considered a “producer” based on my career in the medical field. Which I will use as an example.

Working in healthcare, we have over 70% of employees that are “admin”. They do nothing. They sit around all day playing on their computers. Most work in HR, legalism, or contracts. I know it is hard to accept, but they aren’t public employees. Yet they are just as “worthless” and “unnecessary” in the production sense.

I have a couple extended family that work state and fed. They are exceptional employees and work harder than any admin people I see on the medical side.

These medical admin positions did not exist fifty years ago (admin positions have exploded compared to every other job field). They do not differ from the public sector, except your money gets siphoned there through increased healthcare expenses rather than taxes. But the result is the same.

To think that all laziness and welfare jobs are only in the public sector is to still be living in the past. It’s the new Boomer-Gen X mindset.

As a dissident especially, this should be obvious. The majority of our most active opponents against us are not even public. They are in private. The NGOs importing migrants here, groups like the ADL and SPLC, and evil billionaires are doing far more harm than the Department of Mining or whatever. They control far more and are a far higher threat.

Definitely far more than some low-level government employee working in the behemoth system. It’s not even comparable.

The AFGE Myth Debunkings

I am no fan of unions, but the AFGE has a solid writeup on the actual facts regarding common misconceptions of feds. Here is a snapshot from it:

Myth: 

The federal government is too centralized in the Washington area, and relocating agencies around the country will make it more effective. 

Fact: 

Just 15% of our nation’s 2 million federal workers live in the Washington, D.C. metro area. The remaining 85% already live across the country, in all 50 states, in big cities and rural areas, on military installations and in our communities, and everywhere in-between. 

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Myth: 

The bloated federal workforce is at an all-time high. 

Fact: 

Over the past 50 years, the number of federal workers has grown by roughly 6%. At the same time, the U.S. population has increased by 57%. The ratio of federal workers to national population has steadily decreased for the more than a half-century at this point. In 2024, the total federal workforce compensation of $293 billion amounted to just 4.3% of the federal budget. Meanwhile, federal contractors accounted for $759.2 billion, or 11.4%. If federal workers were paid equally to private sector workers, their pay would make up a 10% share of the budget.

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Myth: 

Federal workers are overpaid. 

Fact: 

Federal workers earn nearly 25% less than private sector and state and local workers who perform similar jobs.

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Myth: 

Federal workers don’t seem to understand or care who they work for. 

Fact: 

About 642,000 federal workers are veterans of the U.S. military. More than half (58%) of all federal workers hold jobs that directly support our troops (Army, Navy, Air Force, DoD), our veterans (VA), or our seniors (SSA, CMS). Federal workers know better than anyone who they work for – the American people – because they devote every single day to delivering vital public services that hundreds of millions of American rely on. They do not cater to any corporate contractor’s bottom line; they serve only their fellow American citizens. 

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Myth: 

Federal workers have “fake jobs.” 

Fact: 

Federal workers perform essential work on behalf of everyone who calls this nation home. They’re the doctors and nurses who care for our veterans, the people who get Social Security benefits out on time, the corrections officers in federal prisons who protect us from dangerous criminals, the USDA inspectors who make sure our food supply is safe, the FEMA specialists who assist disaster survivors, the TSA screeners who protect the flying public, the border patrol agents who stop drug smugglers and human traffickers, and so much more. 

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Myth: 

We only have 6% of our federal workforce actually going into work every single day. 

Fact:  

54% of federal workers hold jobs that require them to report in-person to their duty station every day… Among those whose jobs permit telework, 61.2% of working hours are spent in-person. 

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Myth: 

Americans are being put on hold by bureaucrats who are phoning it in. 

Fact:  

Mischaracterizing telework as failing to show up for work is a deliberate attempt to demean and disparage federal workers and ultimately eliminate and/or outsource their jobs. Both private and public sector employers have found that hybrid telework arrangements improves employee engagement, recruitment and retention. Hybrid work arrangements actually reduce wait times and allow better service for citizens.

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Myth: 

Federal workers are low-skill workers who would be unqualified for private sector employment. 

Fact:  

Federal workers are both highly skilled and highly qualified. 66% of the federal workforce has a bachelor’s degree, compared to 43% of private sector workers, while 33% of federal workers have an advanced degree, compared to just 15% of private sector workers. 

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Myth: 

98% federal bureaucrats are enrolled in a taxpayer-funded pension (compared to just 15% of private sector employees with access to a defined benefit pension plan). That locks federal employees into government employment & comes with a massive cost: nearly $1.2 trillion in unfunded liabilities for the main federal pension system. The cost of pensions is a key reason why most employers have moved away from them. 

Fact:  

While federal pay continues to lag far behind private sector pay, the average yearly pension for Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) retirees is just $25,000. As it stands, those benefits are no match for rising costs and exorbitant health care expenses that many seniors face. Yet, even as President-elect Trump, Elon Musk, and Ramaswamy plan to extend tax cuts and handouts to the wealthy, they are plotting to cut the key retirement benefits that federal workers have earned. 

Like it or not, these are the facts on the ground. Most of the anti-gov positions are entirely fake narratives created to make you hate your fellow American unjustifiably. Deal with that as you will.

Anti-Work From Home; Telework; Remote Jobs; “Return To Office” Save-CRE Scam

Then this entire debacle just gets worse with the anti-work from home positions.

Supposedly, part of the “solution” to our problems is to cut off remote and telework opportunities. That is likely what Trump is going to do Day 1.

But this will only cause those that have options to leave (i.e., the good ones) to leave, leaving the worst government employees left behind. You know Jamal won’t care about going in and playing on his phone at the office, but Fred the expert data analyst will probably find another option.

Not only will this not help crash the government because the system knows how to chug along regardless of the pawns, but it will make our nonfederal lives more miserable too. The worst of the worst will control all government institutions.

How can anybody look at this and think this is a good idea?

I simply don’t understand how conservatives can encourage everyone to flee every single institution that matters all the time and then expect us to win. I’ve always encouraged the opposite: Get into the gov or corrupt institutions if you can and find out what is going on in there! Fight the good fight from the inside. Don’t run and then complain when they are dominated by non-whites and people that hate us.

That’s how we lost the institutions in the first place, geniuses. What an absolutely insane position to take.

I’ve spoken on this plenty previously:

• Three Inside-The-System Lifestyle Strategies
• Article Series: Ways To Contribute
• The Precinct Strategy: Get Involved Locally

The Conclusion: Government Employees Are Alright

The government (system) is certainly not our friend, but willingly making it worse and handing it over even more to the enemy does no one any favors. All of these proposals (terminate employees, mandate return to office, etc.) are simply more ways for the elites to whip their slaves (our people!).

Yet, we have people on our own side cheering it on. Fools!

Screwing over government employees (or any true American just trying to get by) does not help any of our people. It will not reduce taxes or make our lives any easier when they have to interact with government agencies. You’re just harming your fellow citizens for no reason at the benefit of the elites.

These approaches don’t fix any root issues. The system itself is the problem. Only by fixing the system can we truly fix anything.

Targeting government employees is only going to benefit the elite. The same elite who will force more of their serfs back into the office or on welfare. Then those elites will laugh as old Joe gets laid off who is just trying to help his state preserve its beauty at the Forest Service and struggles to pay his mortgage. Meanwhile, the elite will receive even greater tax cuts and less investigation by state agencies.

The fact that people can be tricked into thinking this is a good idea shows how fragile people’s genuine convictions are. And how weak our love for our people is.

At the end of it all, government employees are not our enemy. They are the very same grey masses that we find in the private sector. Our people in both sectors just need a better shepherd and system. If they had that, they would work for the excellent system, instead of the bad.

Think of them as an opportunity, not an enemy. Stop attacking your own people, stay focused on the enemy.

These are just my opinions on this subject. I know many of you will disagree, and that is fine. But I stand where I stand.

As for the government employees: I love my people, no matter where you work. Do good work. Honor the Lord. Take over the institutions. Don’t lose heart with these attacks; some of us stand behind you wherever you are.

As for the “conservative” and “dissident” groups in favor of these things: How about we take the side of our people, and not the corporate elite billionaires, just one damn time? Is that too much to ask?

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