So That's The Goal!

There has been a lot of screeching about Musk telling all federal employees to respond with a bullet list of five things they accomplished in the last week.  Failure to respond indicates resignation.  This seems harsh.  After all, can anyone claim they accomplished anything the last week?

2/23/25 The Hill explains why:

"“The reason this matters is that a significant number of people who are supposed to be working for the government are doing so little work that they are not checking their email at all!” Musk wrote on his social platform X, responding to a post about the email.

“In some cases, we believe non-existent people or the identities of dead people are being used to collect paychecks,” Musk continued. “In other words, there is outright fraud.”

I would like to think that if you are just collecting a paycheck that you would put the effort into at least checking your email.  This at least separates the dead from the living and the hopelessly lazy from those motivated enough to scam the government.  You can see why the federal employees union is hopping mad.