February 5, 2025 • 29 mins
Would You Take the Deal? 10% of Fed Workers Offered Buyouts to Leave Job
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We got a few things that Donald Trump is up
to these days. And I gotta tell you something. Oh,
it's a make my my brain go cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo,
cuckoo for Coco pops over. Yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy.
Now here's a if full on. Like, let's break this
(00:25):
down from a fundamental standpoint. We got four things that
I think we we have here and we need to
talk about them all. Number one, the buyouts. We got
like oh hours left until the people in the federal
government who have been offered buyouts. And then after that,
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you know what they're gonna do. They're gonna either say
yes or no. And then if they say yes, we'll
take your buyout, then they'll take their buyout to get
like eight months off of work basically if they want it.
It's like enough like pay and benefit and whatever to
cover them for almost eight months. And then you know
what happens. What then they can get a job that
they actually like that can maybe like allow them to
(01:09):
be at home if that's what they really want to
do and whatnot. Nice. If they don't take it, then
they just keep doing your job and then we'll see
how useful you are. And I was talking to a
guy today. You know, how many people or how many
billions of dollars if ten percent of the workforce in
the federal government takes the buyout? You know, many billions
(01:30):
of dollars that we would save billions with a b Yeah, taxpayers?
Ten just ten percent of the workforce. Yeah, ten percent
of the federal employees take this buyout and are no
longer on the payroll. How many federal employees are there?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
A lot?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I I don't really know, man. I would imagine it
at least a couple billion. I'm assuming thirty billion.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
What.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, apparently there's like three hundred billion set aside in
our budget just to pay the people that work in
the government. But probably, like most of that is for
some of the top dogs. Maybe I don't know. But
that ain't nothing, man, that ain't nothing. So anyways, there's that.
We'll get to more of that. You want to know
something else that's going on. You wanna know something else
is happening?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
What?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Well?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I heard all this stuff yesterday. Donald Trump was saying
about Gaza, which is pretty interesting and it kind of
goes in some ways with the idea of just trying
to kind of I'm gonna be careful about my words here.
It kind of puts you in a position to control
the region, shall we say, Right, if the United States
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does decide to like this, you know, kind of let
Palestinian people figure out where they want to live and
incentive occupying this place to create this, you know, maybe
safer environment in the Middle East. I don't know how
that's gonna work, but the idea is that, hey, the
United States could end up being a presence. What's that
(02:54):
gonna look like?
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
And does this go against like the whole America first idea?
And Paul thinks so. And Paul said, the whole thing
about putting America first that we thought we were getting
here is completely undermined if we're going and we're basically
setting up shop in Kaza. Now we'll get to that.
We'll do that. Another couple of things, what's going on
(03:17):
with Iran? Aron has some words. Aron's like, wait a second,
maximum pressure on us? Who do you think exactly that
you are? Well? What are they saying back? And is
this going to escalate some things if they don't get
on the same page. We'll talk about that. But one
more thing, that hasn't happened yet that we're going to
(03:38):
get to is Donald Trump. The reports are today is
a National Girls and Women in Sports Day? I think
is that a thing? I think so? And today, on
this day, specifically, Donald Trump is going to be signing
an executive order which will ban biological males from participating
in girls and women's sports across the board in the
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United States. Now again, I would like to know. I'm
sure there's going to be some people that are going
to challenge the legality of some of these things, but
this is getting more widespread praise on social media than
I anticipated, and many people seem to be happy that
this is the way that things are going here. So
you know, ah, seems like a good thing. I mean,
(04:22):
if you got a girl that like a if you're
a girl in women's sports or girl sports, or if
you have a daughter or something, and this is something
that really means something to you. For whatever reason, it
was something that none of the governing bodies seem to
really be able to get a handle on. So now
I guess the White House is going to get a
handle on it, and we'll talk about that. So how
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about that for a slate of political leaning topics that
we can kind of explore. Now, what I want to
do is I want to explore what that looks like
for all of them. But we'll kind of go one
out of time here. I want to start with the
the buyout situation, and we're gonna open the phones here.
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If you want to take part in this conversation, what
would you do in this situation? Or put yourself in
the position of a person who might not be working
from the office, or maybe they already know that their
job is somewhat not super duper important. How do you
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react to that? Do you take the buyout or do
you listen to all the pressure of just like, no,
don't do that, fight back, fight against the man, don't
like make them come to you and fire you, even
if it is actually a stupid financial decision for you.
What do you expect happens here? And how do you
feel about the government trying to trim its fat this way?
Call us at four H two five five eight eleven
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ten four ROH two five five eight eleven ten, or
you can email me Emory at kfab dot com. You're
listening to news radio eleven ten KFAB and raise Songer
thirty billion dollars is a taxpayer. That's crazy. That's if
that ten percent, those three hundred thousand workers would then
go on and make about one hundred grand a year,
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which isn't unreasonable to think about right on average, like
about one hundred grand. Yeah, what they're doing. Wonder what
you're doing to make one hundred grand in the federal
government one hundred grand, especially if you're working at home.
I'd be interested in that. All right, let's go to
the phones. Four, two, five, five, eight, eleven ten. We're
talking about these buyouts, these jobs and whatnot. We got
(06:27):
Park on the line, Park, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
It's up, yep. I think this buyout thing is a
great idea, and anybody that doesn't take it is that
doesn't really want to work. There is needs a brain implant,
because Trump is going to take them anyway. Do you
understand that if you're not doing your job, if you're
only showing up six percent of the people in Washington
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to do their job, you don't need the job. So
if you don't take the buyout, you're eventually getting thrown
out anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, I was gonna say, you're just gonna probably get fired.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
At that like at that point, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And also I want to comment on that Gaza thing,
how everybody's going all up in arms. That is going
to be a blanket for all the terrorists to come
in and get us when we're there rebuilding Gaza. Yeah,
just put the Marines on the outside of the perimeter
of Gaza, and we have the greatest killing machine in
the history of the world in the US military, and
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we'll clean out the terrorists too.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I mean, uh, I think I think Israel would appreciate that.
I think a lot of people in the European nations
would appreciate that. For whatever that's worth.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yep. No, but I think Trump is doing a great job.
I could not be happier with the way things are going,
especially the way that Democrats are reacting to it.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
All Right, well, I appreciate you the opinion there, Mark R. Park, Sorry,
and I really appreciate you calling in. Thanks so much
for listening to our show and calling in today.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You bet, thank you, shol thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah. Okay, So, so, Matt, I wonder let's say let's
just put you in like a weird person's shoes that
has like these people politically saying, you know, we can
combat this. If you want to keep your job, do
you do that or do you take your eight months
pay your benefits, get eight months basically to try to
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get another job, maybe double your pay based on the
fact that you're getting paid for eight months still from
the federal government, and also find a job that might
be better suited for you and you can get out
of this government business world. It just sounds like a
no brainer to me.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Well, but you're framing it from your perspective, because what
you said there in the last part of there would
make it seem like, yeah, you take the buyout. But
it also the way you said it, you don't really
like working for the federal government to begin with.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Why would I go back to the office if I
don't have to go back to the office, if I
can find a job, if that's like, what's breaking my
back here? Oh no, I'm going to lose my one
hundred thousand dollars salary because you're making me go back
to the office. As if. I don't know how many
different I had. I did my IOWA radio show this morning.
I had somebody call in and say, my daughter for
the federal government. She works for the federal government from
(09:04):
the state of Iowa. Sure all of her bosses work
in Washington, d C. Or the nearby area over there.
You want to know what they've told her about getting
back in the office. Yeah, get back to the office
for what though? Right she was being apparently just as
productive And it's not like she's going to be there
for any good reason. She's just going to be there
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because they told her to be there.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Again, that may have been what that job meant before
COVID when everybody got sent home, right, And maybe they're
just trying to re establish those guidelines and those rules.
But if we have the ability to be as productive,
you know what the heck?
Speaker 7 (09:41):
M I mean, that's a complicated conversation. You know, one
employee might feel like they're just as productive, but the
workforce may feel like, you know, it still would be
better if you're here for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Well, I mean, I just think that if my supervisors
are in Washington, d C. Or they're in and why
does it matter if I'm shown up to work in
de Moine.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
I'll give you for instance of productivity for a time
when I worked from home briefly over COVID. Okay, I
was working for this company where there was a whole
lot of cold calling. It was it was a sales
it was a sales job. And normally we would all
be working in an office and there was you know
about I don't know thirty of us all kind of
stationed in an office out in an open forum where
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we could kind of all hear each other talk and
and and work cohesively that way.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Well, COVID broke out at the office, so we all
ended up at home. And that makes sense because it
sounds like you were, you know, somewhat close to each other, right,
we were not six feet distance, you know, You're not
in like you were not in like nearby cubicles, or
you weren't in like different corners or offices in the building.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
You know. It was a good call, right to for
health reasons. But as soon as COVID was done, there
was a conversation of okay, are we going back now,
And of course that we did, because the leadership there
was not going to let us just stay at home,
you know, of course, but during that time when I
was working from home, I was just as productive as
I would have been at the office. I was making
just as many calls, I was doing just as many
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things I was, you know, and it was wonderfully convenient
for a lot of reasons to be doing that job
from home. But you know what, I was way better
off going back into the office. Why is that Because
in that environment, in that work environment, when I was
stuck at home, I was never hearing anyone else, so
I wasn't learning anything. I was never interacting with anyone else,
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so I wasn't forming bonds with my coworkers. I was
never walking to the walking to the cooler and talking
to Jared about how he's doing, you know, like all
that to Jared, right, all these things were never happening.
So going back to the office put me back in
an environment where I was just naturally better at my
job because I was sharper, constantly being sharpened by the
people around me. I'd be hearing conversations that you know,
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my boss would be happened having a couple rows back,
and I would just pick up things and be like, yeah,
I love the way he put that with the potential customer.
I'm going to use that because I think that was
a really good way of talking about our product. So
what you said you could be productive. Yeah, when you're
at home justice productive, but you may not grow the
same way exactly, and you're not showing the same level
investment in your skill or your craft if you're not
(12:08):
willing to go back to the office, if that's what's
required of you. Yeah, exact reason why. If you're a teacher,
you would hate to have to do virtual learning for
the rest of time. They all got their homework done,
but are they really learning these things intrinsically and in
the best environments, really grow as they learn these things.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
And they not apply it to anything? Yeah, you know, like, hey,
you know, I know, you know we're learning algebraic. Can
you give me a reason why I should be applying
this to anything in the real world kind of thing.
I mean that you need a teacher to kind of
maybe help you bridge that gap, right for whatever that's
worth though eight months pay, especially if you think you're
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already low on the totem pole as far as the
governmental workers are concerned, especially knowing that there's an Elon
Musk running around willing to chop off ninety percent of
this workforce in a heartbeat if he is allowed to
do so. How do you not just do this. How
do you not just see the riding on the wall saying,
you know what, how important is my governmental job? Even
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if I did all this stuff, didn't take the pay
or the buy out, and decided I was going to
like forge ahead, what are the odds that I'm not
gonna just get fired by one of these guys, you know,
a month from now, when they start really investigating the
branch of whatever federal program that I work for, that
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should mean something. Zee said, I'm parking with Park. I
agree with him. I really just wanted to say that.
All right, Well, that's one thing that we know a
lot of people are parking with Park today, and we
appreciate Park for starting a conversation. As far as you
know me, if I was in that situation, you have
to start making business decisions. You're telling me I get
paid and my benefits for eight months. Of course, I'm
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going to think about doing that, especially if I'm allowed
to go get another job right away, especially if I
can control what that job is. Maybe I can still
work from home doing that job, make similar money, and
basically have the opportunity to make twice as much money.
If we have this government buyout for eight months. Joe's
on the phone line four two eleven ten. Joe, what's
on your mind on this?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Hey, Amory, I worked for the federal government for over
forty years. I'm retired, but during that time, I know
there was I'm sure there was a buyout during Clinton's administration,
and there was another buyout during Obama's administration, and I
knew people that took the buyout and then just went
(14:27):
on and got another job. But I'm just thinking, if
anybody in the federal service right now is near retirement
thinking about retirement, they don't take this offer, or any
employees that are not permanent employees, there may be term,
you know, part time or probation, probationary. If they have
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that offer, I think they're kind of foolish not to
take it.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
But y, that's just my point, and I tend to
agree Joe. At some point you have to realize you
may not be long for this world one way or
the other. Might as well leave on your own terms
and get paid for a month to do it, you know,
So that makes sense to me. Hey, appreciate the call man,
thanks for listening. Let's go to George real quick. A
George how's it going today?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Hey brother?
Speaker 5 (15:13):
The biggest bitch say of that mean the other day
is we're paying forty billion dollars a month and rent
polices and upkeeps some buildings that are sitting empty. The
only people in there are the twenty some thousand janitors
who basically must be sitting around with their feet up
on a desk because they don't have anything to clean up.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Yeah, they're cleaning their own stuff up. I guess.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Yeah, yeah, good. Look at your football sheets. So you're
going to pick in the Super Bowl. But I don't
think they got to boss the entryways if nobody's coming in.
But I couldn't believe the number. Forty billion dollars a month.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, it's a big number. And like we talked about
about thirty billion dollars could be saved to ten percent
of the workforce takes this buyout. Think about that tax
Maayer dollars thirty billion dollars just because ten people decided
they didn't want to work there anymore. I think taxpayers
across America don't really even care where those people come from.
Just like, wow, that saves us thirty billion dollars. Okay, cool,
you know, all right? Brother day you as well, George.
(16:06):
Check out here, Yeah, yeah, yeah, take your take your
time out there until six o'clock. We got that winter
weather advisory with that freezing rain. That's kind of matriculating
and sticking down to our ground here, and we'll keep
you updated if anything weird happens on the roads. But
just be careful out there to twenty eight. We'll keep
talking about this. I got an interview from earlier that
I did today that I'd like to shine some light
(16:28):
on exactly what the process of this buyout scenario is.
And we'll get to that here on news Radio eleven
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Speaker 4 (16:39):
That?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
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Speaker 7 (16:47):
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I'll google it. That's not Kiss FM.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
That was a joke. We need a google. How bad
is it that we need to google the actual call?
I was gonna say, you did say it was a
wolf making me look stupid up here? It was making
you look stupid? You how by making me second guest myself?
I didn't make you second guys yourself. You were asking
me what it was. I wasn't sure right off the bat.
You were though, congratulations, All right, well thanks. Anyway, we
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were talking about government buyouts. Here, here's eight months pay.
Just don't come back. What do you say? You're like, oh, okay, probably,
you know, unless you really love your job, or and
you make money that you don't think you can make
anywhere else. I guess. Anyway, we're talking to you about this.
Four two, five, five, eight eleven ten. Let's start with
(17:34):
Rich on the phone line. Rich, welcome to the show.
What's up?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Oh? Helly?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
I wanted to talk to about the guy who's fit.
It was, is what forty dollars a year.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
Spent on empty government empty buildings?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Is that for a one month?
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
What do you saying?
Speaker 9 (17:53):
I think so, yeah, yeah, it's half half a trillion
dollars a year.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
Sounds wrong?
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Up it up?
Speaker 8 (18:00):
And he's wrong.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
It's it's closer to two billion a year.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
Because so, I you know, I just want to say,
if you you have, if you fact you want to
put out on the air, maybe look it up to
make sure you don't make a fool of.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
Yourself before you do.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
So to me, I don't know the guy that called in,
Oh well, I was just gonna say, I mean, maybe
forty billion includes the pay of the people that otherwise
would be working in the building, you know, because that's possible,
you know, because we're paying like what three hundred billion
dollars or something in in uh wages around the federal
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government or something they have that budgeted for. So I
don't know, Rich, Yeah, I'm with you, like I, we're
not going to hear one hundred percent accuracy, you know,
the best way to do this is to have somebody
like that call in and have their opinion heard, and
then somebody like you call in and say that didn't
sound right, let me correct that, and then I give
you both the equal time to you know, kind of
resolve that. So I appreciate you doing your due diligence
(18:57):
and educating us today on that.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Also, I wanted to notice, let's let you know that
the DEI thing, it's it's kind of ridiculous how how
they have been. I'm kind of glad they got rid
of it. But also it also includes disabled veterans and
helping them get jobs, So you be careful what you
wish for getting rid of stuff because it's going to
affect more people than you think it does.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, right now, Rich, it sounds like they're blindly just
trying to cut dollars. I know that people are trying
to read more into it, but I think they're literally
just trying to save as much money as possible, and
it just kind of does affect maybe some of the
types of people that were hoping we weren't affecting it with.
But that's I just think a side effect of just
trying to kind of gut the government's size a bit here.
(19:42):
I appreciate the call, buddy, thanks for listening to us. Sure,
let's go to Kip on the phone line four h two,
five five, eight to eleven ten. Kip, you got some
thoughts on this?
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Yes, good afternoon, good ice afternoons. I guess yeah. Yes.
I have a done in the law as well as
a daughter that both work for the federal government. My
son law is with FEMA and at one time he
was one of those guys that went out to the
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storm sites, but he doesn't anymore. And my daughter works
for very small she's a director of a very small
program that's under the Mirror Corps. Umbrella associated with indigenous
elderly across the country, and so they have both elected
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to stay on. They're not taken the buy out now now.
Doug just got my son and lawgist got the notification
last week. He has to come into work every day,
so living in Fredericksburg, he takes the train seven minutes
from his house and an hour later hour and fifteen
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minutes later later he's dropped off two blocks from his
uh where his office. My daughter as of yet has
not any gotten any official deadline on her change from
working at home.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
But it's probably how you think.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Yeah, it is, and you know they they just said,
you know, it's you know, it's a family thing and
it affects families. Uh in that particular area. They were
in the Arlington area for two three years and they
they left Fredericksburg. It's it's a johnt But that's a
decision they made and I respect her, but that's something
they're dealing with. But uh, an event, Uh that's about
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you know, there's a there's two sides of the story,
and I'm not supporting one the other. I just come
to the terms of understanding understanding both sides. Sure, and uh,
and that's that's about where I'm at this point in time.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah, it's interesting, Kipp, and I appreciate you giving us
your perspective on that, because I do think it's pretty
interesting how it's actually affecting a person. Right we're talking
about all these people ten percent of the workforce wanting
to do that. But you know, if you dig in,
this is like, you know, these are people that are
losing their jobs or you know, saying that they're going to,
you know, take a buyout, so their livelihoods basically take
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a huge change. They have to find another job. So
it's interesting to hear, you know, the stories either doing
it that way or the life adjustment that needs to
be made if you're going to stay there. So it's
pretty interesting. I appreciate you for being a part of
the show today.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Yeah, that's you summarize it quite well. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, no problem, Kip, Thank you so much for listening
to us today. We're going to step aside. It is
two forty four. Donald Trump's in the midst of signing
an executive voter right now. We're going to clip that
and we'll try to give you some of the real
highlights of this. But the executive voter is for trans women,
essentially biological men who decide to be women and saying
(22:53):
they cannot compete in women's sports. We will give you
the highlights a little bit later on. And if you
have some thoughts still on the out situation with the
federal government employees, which is going up until the end
of the week, they have basically maybe even tomorrow, they
have this opportunity to speak up or forever, forever hold
your peace and let the people in charge decide if
(23:14):
your job's worthy of keeping or not. If you're interested
in talking to us about it, you can call us
at four h two five five eight eleven ten. Four
h two five five eight eleven ten. Well, talk to
you next, SAW News Radio eleven ten kfab Emrie Sunger. First,
before I get back into buyout talk, we have Evan
on our phone line of four ROH two five five
eight to eleven ten. Evan, what is the situation outside
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looking like right now?
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Sir?
Speaker 10 (23:36):
I'm calling you from Lincoln, Nebraska from the Capitol.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
And I just drove from downtown Omaha to the Capitol
building here in Lincoln, and I wanted to report on
the road. I didn't have any problem, but you gotta
slow down. If you drive sixty five no faster than
that in the interstate, you'll make it just fine. Just
slow down. The roads are fine. Just slow down. That's
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all I have to say.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
So I had no.
Speaker 10 (24:02):
Problem getting the Lincoln. I drove perfectly. I listened to
KFAB all the way down. You guys get me company
all the way, and I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Hopefully hopefully hopefully evident sounds okay, and we're glad that
you're okay. But thanks for giving us the updates so
we can maybe help some more people that might be
traveling town. Please do all right, Thanks buddank you sir. Yeah,
that's cool, awesome, awesome stuff. Thanks Evan for listening to us.
And he's right. What is it six o'clock? I went
through as their advisory. We got to keep ourselves slided
(24:30):
up on you know, you want to be careful out
there at least until that and even after that, right
could be still slick all night long, you know, so
it could be.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
Forecast is calling for the freezing rain to be mainly
before five pm, so we're expecting that it should taper
off around them, and then then expect patchy fog between
seven and eight pm, so that could also impact driving
time as well this evening. But the winter Weather Advisory
ends at six pm. Yeah, so I'll be here, so
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we'll talk to you about it.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Hey, you know we're gonna do We're gonna go back
to the phones four two five five eight eleven ten.
We're talking about buyouts of the federal government employees who
do or do not want to keep working. Right, it's
just do you take the buyout? Do you try to
go back into the office you want to keep your job?
What's that kind of look like? We got Brian on
a phone line of four roho two five five eight
eleven ten. Brian, what do you think about all this?
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Well, I would bet that none of the twenty thousand
people who have put in their resignation actually get eight
months pay. Donald Trump and team Trump and Elon Musk too,
have a history of promising people that they'll pay them
and then not actually paying them. So it's also you
can't fire people without cause, that's illegal. You can't delete
(25:46):
all agencies without congress, that's unconstitutional. But everyone seems to
be cheering this on. Oh, they're taking a part the
government and they're doing it illegally an unconstitutioned.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Well, this is unconstitutional. I mean it was Bill Clinton
who actually did the first buyout that included like that
looks like this for government employees. So I mean it's
not just Donald Trump is deciding to do this. There
is legal precedent in the government to you know, kind
of try to thin the herd if you will, through
offering buyouts, and you're giving people that are coming back
(26:22):
people that happened, then we take an ample that if
you accept our buyout agreement, it would be eight months
of pay and benefits and you can go get another
job tomorrow if you want.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Well, there's nothing in writing. They have no legal recourse
if they turn in their resignation. That's if they quit
and they can't do anything about it.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Uh yeah, But that now you're talking that they would
be on the line of unconstitutional though, because they would
have to have the agreement of the buyout for this
to be legal in the way that either Obama or
Clinton both did in those buyouts that they did during
their administration. So it's it's we're paying attention to it. Brian,
I understand you are going to general really opposed what
(27:00):
the Trump administration is going to be doing. But there
are a lot of people that are cheerleading this because
we're talking of ten percent of the federal government workforce
decided to take this buyout and not be on the
payroll anymore for the taxpayers. That's thirty billion dollars of
pay that is saved by American taxpayers. And there's a
lot of people that say, Okay, well, if they are
(27:21):
willing to leave like that, how important were their job
in the first place. And that's a question that I
don't have the answer to them, but it makes you think,
what could we use that thirty billion dollars for? Or
maybe we just are able to save that money next year?
Who knows?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Right, well, I would still be willing to bet they
don't get paid.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Well, well, let's revisit that if the evidence shows up
that they aren't getting paid. Brian, Okay, how's that sure?
All right? Thanks for calling in, appreciate it. Doug's on
the phone line four, two, five, five, eight to eleven ten, Doug,
what's up?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Hellout?
Speaker 9 (27:53):
Yeah, yeah, Brian, it was just on. Yeah, a racist
for hating rich people.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Racist for hating rich people. Yeah, I don't know if
that's what it is. But yeah, I mean I don't know, yeh.
Speaker 9 (28:10):
You know, well, first of all, he said they don't
have any paperwork. Oh, like I do is print out
the email?
Speaker 5 (28:15):
They got paperwork?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, you know, yeah, and there's no way it just
would be like, hey, walk in and give me your resignation.
There certainly would be a paper on their desk that say,
sign here, we'll give you eight months to pay, and
you know you can leave and go get another job
somewhere else and you just won't be working for us anymore.
That certainly would be how I would expect it to
be handled.
Speaker 9 (28:35):
Yeah, And I also know and just factual, and you
can I don't want to say google it because that's
got way overused lately, but you can do the research.
I do know that if anybody that's just started and
is in a probationary period and resigned, they won't get paid.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, but see that that's a little bit different me
because you know the parameters.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah, so hey, Doug, Yeah, I'm running out of time,
this seg Doug. But I appreciate you for calling in man,
thanks for listening. All right, Yeah, if you want to
talk about this we'll talk about it. We'll keep talking
about it. Stay on the phone. We'll chat with you
four oh two, five, five, eight, eleven ten. We'll have
another keyword for you. We'll talk more about these buyouts
in this situation. And we got plenty more that we're
(29:23):
going to get to throughout. Donald Trump's still doing a
long speech and introducing a ton of people that are
in the audience for him to sign this executive order
to protect women's sports. We'll get to that at some point.
We'll talk about Gaza specifically. We'll talk about Iran at
some point as well. And let's buy out things. Got
a lot of people talking. The emails are blowing up too.
We'll chat more with you on news radio eleven ten
kfab
We got a few things that Donald Trump is up
to these days. And I gotta tell you something. Oh,
it's a make my my brain go cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo,
cuckoo for Coco pops over. Yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy.
Now here's a if full on. Like, let's break this
(00:25):
down from a fundamental standpoint. We got four things that
I think we we have here and we need to
talk about them all. Number one, the buyouts. We got
like oh hours left until the people in the federal
government who have been offered buyouts. And then after that,
(00:46):
you know what they're gonna do. They're gonna either say
yes or no. And then if they say yes, we'll
take your buyout, then they'll take their buyout to get
like eight months off of work basically if they want it.
It's like enough like pay and benefit and whatever to
cover them for almost eight months. And then you know
what happens. What then they can get a job that
they actually like that can maybe like allow them to
(01:09):
be at home if that's what they really want to
do and whatnot. Nice. If they don't take it, then
they just keep doing your job and then we'll see
how useful you are. And I was talking to a
guy today. You know, how many people or how many
billions of dollars if ten percent of the workforce in
the federal government takes the buyout? You know, many billions
(01:30):
of dollars that we would save billions with a b Yeah, taxpayers?
Ten just ten percent of the workforce. Yeah, ten percent
of the federal employees take this buyout and are no
longer on the payroll. How many federal employees are there?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
A lot?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I I don't really know, man. I would imagine it
at least a couple billion. I'm assuming thirty billion.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
What.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, apparently there's like three hundred billion set aside in
our budget just to pay the people that work in
the government. But probably, like most of that is for
some of the top dogs. Maybe I don't know. But
that ain't nothing, man, that ain't nothing. So anyways, there's that.
We'll get to more of that. You want to know
something else that's going on. You wanna know something else
is happening?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
What?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Well?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I heard all this stuff yesterday. Donald Trump was saying
about Gaza, which is pretty interesting and it kind of
goes in some ways with the idea of just trying
to kind of I'm gonna be careful about my words here.
It kind of puts you in a position to control
the region, shall we say, Right, if the United States
(02:31):
does decide to like this, you know, kind of let
Palestinian people figure out where they want to live and
incentive occupying this place to create this, you know, maybe
safer environment in the Middle East. I don't know how
that's gonna work, but the idea is that, hey, the
United States could end up being a presence. What's that
(02:54):
gonna look like?
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
And does this go against like the whole America first idea?
And Paul thinks so. And Paul said, the whole thing
about putting America first that we thought we were getting
here is completely undermined if we're going and we're basically
setting up shop in Kaza. Now we'll get to that.
We'll do that. Another couple of things, what's going on
(03:17):
with Iran? Aron has some words. Aron's like, wait a second,
maximum pressure on us? Who do you think exactly that
you are? Well? What are they saying back? And is
this going to escalate some things if they don't get
on the same page. We'll talk about that. But one
more thing, that hasn't happened yet that we're going to
(03:38):
get to is Donald Trump. The reports are today is
a National Girls and Women in Sports Day? I think
is that a thing? I think so? And today, on
this day, specifically, Donald Trump is going to be signing
an executive order which will ban biological males from participating
in girls and women's sports across the board in the
(03:59):
United States. Now again, I would like to know. I'm
sure there's going to be some people that are going
to challenge the legality of some of these things, but
this is getting more widespread praise on social media than
I anticipated, and many people seem to be happy that
this is the way that things are going here. So
you know, ah, seems like a good thing. I mean,
(04:22):
if you got a girl that like a if you're
a girl in women's sports or girl sports, or if
you have a daughter or something, and this is something
that really means something to you. For whatever reason, it
was something that none of the governing bodies seem to
really be able to get a handle on. So now
I guess the White House is going to get a
handle on it, and we'll talk about that. So how
(04:44):
about that for a slate of political leaning topics that
we can kind of explore. Now, what I want to
do is I want to explore what that looks like
for all of them. But we'll kind of go one
out of time here. I want to start with the
the buyout situation, and we're gonna open the phones here.
(05:04):
If you want to take part in this conversation, what
would you do in this situation? Or put yourself in
the position of a person who might not be working
from the office, or maybe they already know that their
job is somewhat not super duper important. How do you
(05:25):
react to that? Do you take the buyout or do
you listen to all the pressure of just like, no,
don't do that, fight back, fight against the man, don't
like make them come to you and fire you, even
if it is actually a stupid financial decision for you.
What do you expect happens here? And how do you
feel about the government trying to trim its fat this way?
Call us at four H two five five eight eleven
(05:46):
ten four ROH two five five eight eleven ten, or
you can email me Emory at kfab dot com. You're
listening to news radio eleven ten KFAB and raise Songer
thirty billion dollars is a taxpayer. That's crazy. That's if
that ten percent, those three hundred thousand workers would then
go on and make about one hundred grand a year,
(06:06):
which isn't unreasonable to think about right on average, like
about one hundred grand. Yeah, what they're doing. Wonder what
you're doing to make one hundred grand in the federal
government one hundred grand, especially if you're working at home.
I'd be interested in that. All right, let's go to
the phones. Four, two, five, five, eight, eleven ten. We're
talking about these buyouts, these jobs and whatnot. We got
(06:27):
Park on the line, Park, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
It's up, yep. I think this buyout thing is a
great idea, and anybody that doesn't take it is that
doesn't really want to work. There is needs a brain implant,
because Trump is going to take them anyway. Do you
understand that if you're not doing your job, if you're
only showing up six percent of the people in Washington
(06:49):
to do their job, you don't need the job. So
if you don't take the buyout, you're eventually getting thrown
out anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, I was gonna say, you're just gonna probably get fired.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
At that like at that point, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And also I want to comment on that Gaza thing,
how everybody's going all up in arms. That is going
to be a blanket for all the terrorists to come
in and get us when we're there rebuilding Gaza. Yeah,
just put the Marines on the outside of the perimeter
of Gaza, and we have the greatest killing machine in
the history of the world in the US military, and
(07:25):
we'll clean out the terrorists too.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I mean, uh, I think I think Israel would appreciate that.
I think a lot of people in the European nations
would appreciate that. For whatever that's worth.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yep. No, but I think Trump is doing a great job.
I could not be happier with the way things are going,
especially the way that Democrats are reacting to it.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
All Right, well, I appreciate you the opinion there, Mark R. Park, Sorry,
and I really appreciate you calling in. Thanks so much
for listening to our show and calling in today.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You bet, thank you, shol thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah. Okay, So, so, Matt, I wonder let's say let's
just put you in like a weird person's shoes that
has like these people politically saying, you know, we can
combat this. If you want to keep your job, do
you do that or do you take your eight months
pay your benefits, get eight months basically to try to
(08:16):
get another job, maybe double your pay based on the
fact that you're getting paid for eight months still from
the federal government, and also find a job that might
be better suited for you and you can get out
of this government business world. It just sounds like a
no brainer to me.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Well, but you're framing it from your perspective, because what
you said there in the last part of there would
make it seem like, yeah, you take the buyout. But
it also the way you said it, you don't really
like working for the federal government to begin with.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Why would I go back to the office if I
don't have to go back to the office, if I
can find a job, if that's like, what's breaking my
back here? Oh no, I'm going to lose my one
hundred thousand dollars salary because you're making me go back
to the office. As if. I don't know how many
different I had. I did my IOWA radio show this morning.
I had somebody call in and say, my daughter for
the federal government. She works for the federal government from
(09:04):
the state of Iowa. Sure all of her bosses work
in Washington, d C. Or the nearby area over there.
You want to know what they've told her about getting
back in the office. Yeah, get back to the office
for what though? Right she was being apparently just as
productive And it's not like she's going to be there
for any good reason. She's just going to be there
(09:24):
because they told her to be there.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Again, that may have been what that job meant before
COVID when everybody got sent home, right, And maybe they're
just trying to re establish those guidelines and those rules.
But if we have the ability to be as productive,
you know what the heck?
Speaker 7 (09:41):
M I mean, that's a complicated conversation. You know, one
employee might feel like they're just as productive, but the
workforce may feel like, you know, it still would be
better if you're here for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Well, I mean, I just think that if my supervisors
are in Washington, d C. Or they're in and why
does it matter if I'm shown up to work in
de Moine.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
I'll give you for instance of productivity for a time
when I worked from home briefly over COVID. Okay, I
was working for this company where there was a whole
lot of cold calling. It was it was a sales
it was a sales job. And normally we would all
be working in an office and there was you know
about I don't know thirty of us all kind of
stationed in an office out in an open forum where
(10:25):
we could kind of all hear each other talk and
and and work cohesively that way.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Well, COVID broke out at the office, so we all
ended up at home. And that makes sense because it
sounds like you were, you know, somewhat close to each other, right,
we were not six feet distance, you know, You're not
in like you were not in like nearby cubicles, or
you weren't in like different corners or offices in the building.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
You know. It was a good call, right to for
health reasons. But as soon as COVID was done, there
was a conversation of okay, are we going back now,
And of course that we did, because the leadership there
was not going to let us just stay at home,
you know, of course, but during that time when I
was working from home, I was just as productive as
I would have been at the office. I was making
just as many calls, I was doing just as many
(11:05):
things I was, you know, and it was wonderfully convenient
for a lot of reasons to be doing that job
from home. But you know what, I was way better
off going back into the office. Why is that Because
in that environment, in that work environment, when I was
stuck at home, I was never hearing anyone else, so
I wasn't learning anything. I was never interacting with anyone else,
(11:26):
so I wasn't forming bonds with my coworkers. I was
never walking to the walking to the cooler and talking
to Jared about how he's doing, you know, like all
that to Jared, right, all these things were never happening.
So going back to the office put me back in
an environment where I was just naturally better at my
job because I was sharper, constantly being sharpened by the
people around me. I'd be hearing conversations that you know,
(11:46):
my boss would be happened having a couple rows back,
and I would just pick up things and be like, yeah,
I love the way he put that with the potential customer.
I'm going to use that because I think that was
a really good way of talking about our product. So
what you said you could be productive. Yeah, when you're
at home justice productive, but you may not grow the
same way exactly, and you're not showing the same level
investment in your skill or your craft if you're not
(12:08):
willing to go back to the office, if that's what's
required of you. Yeah, exact reason why. If you're a teacher,
you would hate to have to do virtual learning for
the rest of time. They all got their homework done,
but are they really learning these things intrinsically and in
the best environments, really grow as they learn these things.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
And they not apply it to anything? Yeah, you know, like, hey,
you know, I know, you know we're learning algebraic. Can
you give me a reason why I should be applying
this to anything in the real world kind of thing.
I mean that you need a teacher to kind of
maybe help you bridge that gap, right for whatever that's
worth though eight months pay, especially if you think you're
(12:42):
already low on the totem pole as far as the
governmental workers are concerned, especially knowing that there's an Elon
Musk running around willing to chop off ninety percent of
this workforce in a heartbeat if he is allowed to
do so. How do you not just do this. How
do you not just see the riding on the wall saying,
you know what, how important is my governmental job? Even
(13:03):
if I did all this stuff, didn't take the pay
or the buy out, and decided I was going to
like forge ahead, what are the odds that I'm not
gonna just get fired by one of these guys, you know,
a month from now, when they start really investigating the
branch of whatever federal program that I work for, that
(13:23):
should mean something. Zee said, I'm parking with Park. I
agree with him. I really just wanted to say that.
All right, Well, that's one thing that we know a
lot of people are parking with Park today, and we
appreciate Park for starting a conversation. As far as you
know me, if I was in that situation, you have
to start making business decisions. You're telling me I get
paid and my benefits for eight months. Of course, I'm
(13:45):
going to think about doing that, especially if I'm allowed
to go get another job right away, especially if I
can control what that job is. Maybe I can still
work from home doing that job, make similar money, and
basically have the opportunity to make twice as much money.
If we have this government buyout for eight months. Joe's
on the phone line four two eleven ten. Joe, what's
on your mind on this?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Hey, Amory, I worked for the federal government for over
forty years. I'm retired, but during that time, I know
there was I'm sure there was a buyout during Clinton's administration,
and there was another buyout during Obama's administration, and I
knew people that took the buyout and then just went
(14:27):
on and got another job. But I'm just thinking, if
anybody in the federal service right now is near retirement
thinking about retirement, they don't take this offer, or any
employees that are not permanent employees, there may be term,
you know, part time or probation, probationary. If they have
(14:50):
that offer, I think they're kind of foolish not to
take it.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
But y, that's just my point, and I tend to
agree Joe. At some point you have to realize you
may not be long for this world one way or
the other. Might as well leave on your own terms
and get paid for a month to do it, you know,
So that makes sense to me. Hey, appreciate the call man,
thanks for listening. Let's go to George real quick. A
George how's it going today?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Hey brother?
Speaker 5 (15:13):
The biggest bitch say of that mean the other day
is we're paying forty billion dollars a month and rent
polices and upkeeps some buildings that are sitting empty. The
only people in there are the twenty some thousand janitors
who basically must be sitting around with their feet up
on a desk because they don't have anything to clean up.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Yeah, they're cleaning their own stuff up. I guess.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Yeah, yeah, good. Look at your football sheets. So you're
going to pick in the Super Bowl. But I don't
think they got to boss the entryways if nobody's coming in.
But I couldn't believe the number. Forty billion dollars a month.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, it's a big number. And like we talked about
about thirty billion dollars could be saved to ten percent
of the workforce takes this buyout. Think about that tax
Maayer dollars thirty billion dollars just because ten people decided
they didn't want to work there anymore. I think taxpayers
across America don't really even care where those people come from.
Just like, wow, that saves us thirty billion dollars. Okay, cool,
you know, all right? Brother day you as well, George.
(16:06):
Check out here, Yeah, yeah, yeah, take your take your
time out there until six o'clock. We got that winter
weather advisory with that freezing rain. That's kind of matriculating
and sticking down to our ground here, and we'll keep
you updated if anything weird happens on the roads. But
just be careful out there to twenty eight. We'll keep
talking about this. I got an interview from earlier that
I did today that I'd like to shine some light
(16:28):
on exactly what the process of this buyout scenario is.
And we'll get to that here on news Radio eleven
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station is that is?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
That?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Is that the wolf? Is that kg o R no,
k g R s kg o R, that's k f
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Speaker 7 (16:47):
It's Kiss FM. If you had a list, Oh kiss FM, No,
I'll google it. That's not Kiss FM.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
That was a joke. We need a google. How bad
is it that we need to google the actual call?
I was gonna say, you did say it was a
wolf making me look stupid up here? It was making
you look stupid? You how by making me second guest myself?
I didn't make you second guys yourself. You were asking
me what it was. I wasn't sure right off the bat.
You were though, congratulations, All right, well thanks. Anyway, we
(17:14):
were talking about government buyouts. Here, here's eight months pay.
Just don't come back. What do you say? You're like, oh, okay, probably,
you know, unless you really love your job, or and
you make money that you don't think you can make
anywhere else. I guess. Anyway, we're talking to you about this.
Four two, five, five, eight eleven ten. Let's start with
(17:34):
Rich on the phone line. Rich, welcome to the show.
What's up?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Oh? Helly?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
I wanted to talk to about the guy who's fit.
It was, is what forty dollars a year.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
Spent on empty government empty buildings?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Is that for a one month?
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
What do you saying?
Speaker 9 (17:53):
I think so, yeah, yeah, it's half half a trillion
dollars a year.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
Sounds wrong?
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Up it up?
Speaker 8 (18:00):
And he's wrong.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
It's it's closer to two billion a year.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
Because so, I you know, I just want to say,
if you you have, if you fact you want to
put out on the air, maybe look it up to
make sure you don't make a fool of.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
Yourself before you do.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
So to me, I don't know the guy that called in,
Oh well, I was just gonna say, I mean, maybe
forty billion includes the pay of the people that otherwise
would be working in the building, you know, because that's possible,
you know, because we're paying like what three hundred billion
dollars or something in in uh wages around the federal
(18:35):
government or something they have that budgeted for. So I
don't know, Rich, Yeah, I'm with you, like I, we're
not going to hear one hundred percent accuracy, you know,
the best way to do this is to have somebody
like that call in and have their opinion heard, and
then somebody like you call in and say that didn't
sound right, let me correct that, and then I give
you both the equal time to you know, kind of
resolve that. So I appreciate you doing your due diligence
(18:57):
and educating us today on that.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Also, I wanted to notice, let's let you know that
the DEI thing, it's it's kind of ridiculous how how
they have been. I'm kind of glad they got rid
of it. But also it also includes disabled veterans and
helping them get jobs, So you be careful what you
wish for getting rid of stuff because it's going to
affect more people than you think it does.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, right now, Rich, it sounds like they're blindly just
trying to cut dollars. I know that people are trying
to read more into it, but I think they're literally
just trying to save as much money as possible, and
it just kind of does affect maybe some of the
types of people that were hoping we weren't affecting it with.
But that's I just think a side effect of just
trying to kind of gut the government's size a bit here.
(19:42):
I appreciate the call, buddy, thanks for listening to us. Sure,
let's go to Kip on the phone line four h two,
five five, eight to eleven ten. Kip, you got some
thoughts on this?
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Yes, good afternoon, good ice afternoons. I guess yeah. Yes.
I have a done in the law as well as
a daughter that both work for the federal government. My
son law is with FEMA and at one time he
was one of those guys that went out to the
(20:14):
storm sites, but he doesn't anymore. And my daughter works
for very small she's a director of a very small
program that's under the Mirror Corps. Umbrella associated with indigenous
elderly across the country, and so they have both elected
(20:39):
to stay on. They're not taken the buy out now now.
Doug just got my son and lawgist got the notification
last week. He has to come into work every day,
so living in Fredericksburg, he takes the train seven minutes
from his house and an hour later hour and fifteen
(20:59):
minutes later later he's dropped off two blocks from his
uh where his office. My daughter as of yet has
not any gotten any official deadline on her change from
working at home.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
But it's probably how you think.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Yeah, it is, and you know they they just said,
you know, it's you know, it's a family thing and
it affects families. Uh in that particular area. They were
in the Arlington area for two three years and they
they left Fredericksburg. It's it's a johnt But that's a
decision they made and I respect her, but that's something
they're dealing with. But uh, an event, Uh that's about
(21:41):
you know, there's a there's two sides of the story,
and I'm not supporting one the other. I just come
to the terms of understanding understanding both sides. Sure, and uh,
and that's that's about where I'm at this point in time.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah, it's interesting, Kipp, and I appreciate you giving us
your perspective on that, because I do think it's pretty
interesting how it's actually affecting a person. Right we're talking
about all these people ten percent of the workforce wanting
to do that. But you know, if you dig in,
this is like, you know, these are people that are
losing their jobs or you know, saying that they're going to,
you know, take a buyout, so their livelihoods basically take
(22:17):
a huge change. They have to find another job. So
it's interesting to hear, you know, the stories either doing
it that way or the life adjustment that needs to
be made if you're going to stay there. So it's
pretty interesting. I appreciate you for being a part of
the show today.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Yeah, that's you summarize it quite well. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, no problem, Kip, Thank you so much for listening
to us today. We're going to step aside. It is
two forty four. Donald Trump's in the midst of signing
an executive voter right now. We're going to clip that
and we'll try to give you some of the real
highlights of this. But the executive voter is for trans women,
essentially biological men who decide to be women and saying
(22:53):
they cannot compete in women's sports. We will give you
the highlights a little bit later on. And if you
have some thoughts still on the out situation with the
federal government employees, which is going up until the end
of the week, they have basically maybe even tomorrow, they
have this opportunity to speak up or forever, forever hold
your peace and let the people in charge decide if
(23:14):
your job's worthy of keeping or not. If you're interested
in talking to us about it, you can call us
at four h two five five eight eleven ten. Four
h two five five eight eleven ten. Well, talk to
you next, SAW News Radio eleven ten kfab Emrie Sunger. First,
before I get back into buyout talk, we have Evan
on our phone line of four ROH two five five
eight to eleven ten. Evan, what is the situation outside
(23:35):
looking like right now?
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Sir?
Speaker 10 (23:36):
I'm calling you from Lincoln, Nebraska from the Capitol.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
And I just drove from downtown Omaha to the Capitol
building here in Lincoln, and I wanted to report on
the road. I didn't have any problem, but you gotta
slow down. If you drive sixty five no faster than
that in the interstate, you'll make it just fine. Just
slow down. The roads are fine. Just slow down. That's
(24:00):
all I have to say.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
So I had no.
Speaker 10 (24:02):
Problem getting the Lincoln. I drove perfectly. I listened to
KFAB all the way down. You guys get me company
all the way, and I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Hopefully hopefully hopefully evident sounds okay, and we're glad that
you're okay. But thanks for giving us the updates so
we can maybe help some more people that might be
traveling town. Please do all right, Thanks buddank you sir. Yeah,
that's cool, awesome, awesome stuff. Thanks Evan for listening to us.
And he's right. What is it six o'clock? I went
through as their advisory. We got to keep ourselves slided
(24:30):
up on you know, you want to be careful out
there at least until that and even after that, right
could be still slick all night long, you know, so
it could be.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
Forecast is calling for the freezing rain to be mainly
before five pm, so we're expecting that it should taper
off around them, and then then expect patchy fog between
seven and eight pm, so that could also impact driving
time as well this evening. But the winter Weather Advisory
ends at six pm. Yeah, so I'll be here, so
(25:00):
we'll talk to you about it.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Hey, you know we're gonna do We're gonna go back
to the phones four two five five eight eleven ten.
We're talking about buyouts of the federal government employees who
do or do not want to keep working. Right, it's
just do you take the buyout? Do you try to
go back into the office you want to keep your job?
What's that kind of look like? We got Brian on
a phone line of four roho two five five eight
eleven ten. Brian, what do you think about all this?
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Well, I would bet that none of the twenty thousand
people who have put in their resignation actually get eight
months pay. Donald Trump and team Trump and Elon Musk too,
have a history of promising people that they'll pay them
and then not actually paying them. So it's also you
can't fire people without cause, that's illegal. You can't delete
(25:46):
all agencies without congress, that's unconstitutional. But everyone seems to
be cheering this on. Oh, they're taking a part the
government and they're doing it illegally an unconstitutioned.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Well, this is unconstitutional. I mean it was Bill Clinton
who actually did the first buyout that included like that
looks like this for government employees. So I mean it's
not just Donald Trump is deciding to do this. There
is legal precedent in the government to you know, kind
of try to thin the herd if you will, through
offering buyouts, and you're giving people that are coming back
(26:22):
people that happened, then we take an ample that if
you accept our buyout agreement, it would be eight months
of pay and benefits and you can go get another
job tomorrow if you want.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Well, there's nothing in writing. They have no legal recourse
if they turn in their resignation. That's if they quit
and they can't do anything about it.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Uh yeah, But that now you're talking that they would
be on the line of unconstitutional though, because they would
have to have the agreement of the buyout for this
to be legal in the way that either Obama or
Clinton both did in those buyouts that they did during
their administration. So it's it's we're paying attention to it. Brian,
I understand you are going to general really opposed what
(27:00):
the Trump administration is going to be doing. But there
are a lot of people that are cheerleading this because
we're talking of ten percent of the federal government workforce
decided to take this buyout and not be on the
payroll anymore for the taxpayers. That's thirty billion dollars of
pay that is saved by American taxpayers. And there's a
lot of people that say, Okay, well, if they are
(27:21):
willing to leave like that, how important were their job
in the first place. And that's a question that I
don't have the answer to them, but it makes you think,
what could we use that thirty billion dollars for? Or
maybe we just are able to save that money next year?
Who knows?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Right, well, I would still be willing to bet they
don't get paid.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Well, well, let's revisit that if the evidence shows up
that they aren't getting paid. Brian, Okay, how's that sure?
All right? Thanks for calling in, appreciate it. Doug's on
the phone line four, two, five, five, eight to eleven ten, Doug,
what's up?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Hellout?
Speaker 9 (27:53):
Yeah, yeah, Brian, it was just on. Yeah, a racist
for hating rich people.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Racist for hating rich people. Yeah, I don't know if
that's what it is. But yeah, I mean I don't know, yeh.
Speaker 9 (28:10):
You know, well, first of all, he said they don't
have any paperwork. Oh, like I do is print out
the email?
Speaker 5 (28:15):
They got paperwork?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, you know, yeah, and there's no way it just
would be like, hey, walk in and give me your resignation.
There certainly would be a paper on their desk that say,
sign here, we'll give you eight months to pay, and
you know you can leave and go get another job
somewhere else and you just won't be working for us anymore.
That certainly would be how I would expect it to
be handled.
Speaker 9 (28:35):
Yeah, And I also know and just factual, and you
can I don't want to say google it because that's
got way overused lately, but you can do the research.
I do know that if anybody that's just started and
is in a probationary period and resigned, they won't get paid.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, but see that that's a little bit different me
because you know the parameters.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah, so hey, Doug, Yeah, I'm running out of time,
this seg Doug. But I appreciate you for calling in man,
thanks for listening. All right, Yeah, if you want to
talk about this we'll talk about it. We'll keep talking
about it. Stay on the phone. We'll chat with you
four oh two, five, five, eight, eleven ten. We'll have
another keyword for you. We'll talk more about these buyouts
in this situation. And we got plenty more that we're
(29:23):
going to get to throughout. Donald Trump's still doing a
long speech and introducing a ton of people that are
in the audience for him to sign this executive order
to protect women's sports. We'll get to that at some point.
We'll talk about Gaza specifically. We'll talk about Iran at
some point as well. And let's buy out things. Got
a lot of people talking. The emails are blowing up too.
We'll chat more with you on news radio eleven ten
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