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Seemingly everyone has had a reaction one way or the other to Elon Musk’s email to nearly two million government employees, saying they had to explain what they do at their jobs or face termination. Musk contends it’s a way to cut government waste by eliminating unnecessary workers from the government payroll. Opponents are up in arms, saying it’s a needless scare tactic by the Trump Administration. Joe Borelli has been on both sides of this fence; he recently left his post as Minority Leader of the New York City Council to become the managing director at Chartwell Strategy Group. He appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to say that job accountability is something that “no reasonable person” should oppose.
“I have to do that for every client,” Borelli told host Larry Mendte. “I mean, that’s part of the relationship of client to provider, or boss to worker. Normal people have to provide some accounting of how they spent their day. I think this is going to be episode 175 of ‘Democrats Dying on Some Dumb Hill,’ and this is only month one. There are people going on one of those trains down to a coal mine who can’t possibly fathom how this is stressing out federal employees. This is a tough day at work- to have to answer an email from HR saying, ‘Can you account for what you did?’.” Normal people do this every day.
Borelli feels the inability to treat government jobs like jobs at private corporations is why the email campaign is being blown out of proportion: “The degradation of the federal work force, a $271 billion payroll over the last several decades, is how we arrived at this moment, where it’s become a parody. It’s like the movie Office Space- ‘Tell me what you do here, Bob,’ right; it’s actually a parody, but it’s real life.”
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