Anyone gonna take the buyout?
I think most people won't take the buyout because this is what they do - they have a sweet deal. I think I read it's 8 months pay? That's really not very much.
The Secs and administrators need to take inventory of their various realms - who are all these people and what do they do? Should this be a state thing? Is it necessary? Is it redundant? Example:
Dept of Ed was a good idea. A federal dept that oversees education on a national level and aids the state education programs. Then it turned into freaking Goliath. And clearly there are too many people in that dept who don't have enough to do so they sit around getting baked and coming up with weird stoner ideas of stuff to inflict on our kids. Here are the various offices and programs under DoE:
Information about the Department of Education's 17 Principal Operating Components (POCs) and each POC's sub-offices, people, and mission, as well as the programs and projects that each office administers and contact information for each POC.
www.ed.gov
Then you go to the individual Office and there's a bunch of suboffices, and on and on it goes. In the meantime, I haven't noticed an increase in educational proficiency in this country. If anything, our kids are less educated than previous generations. Because that's the problem when you have too many people involved in something - they have to come up with bullshit to justify their paycheck. So they go, "Hey, I know! Let's send Drag Queens into elementary schools to teach kids to be tolerant!" And if you say, "Hey, you people need to trim your budget" they go, "SCREEECH! Fine! Then we'll just eliminate school lunches! How would you like that? Why do you want to starve little children???"
We need a Tom Homan for every department of the US government. Someone who'll do what's needed and not give a crap when people whine about it. A JD Vance who'll say, "I don't really care, Margaret."