Re:Implementing the President's "DOGE" Workforce Optimizatio...
by JohnBooty on Monday February 17, 2025 @09:54AM
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That's not a realistic way of thinking about it. From multiple angles.
Back of the envelope math: there are about 26,000 sailors staffing the nation's aircraft carriers. Let's round it up to 50,000 to account for the folks who build them, admin, etc.
That's 0.03% of the available workforce. It's not a remotely significant reason why our school system isn't great.
Additionally, the demographic of people who build and serve on aircraft carriers likely does not overlap significantly with the people who would otherwise be staffing schools.
The USA has a workforce of something like 170 million. No matter how this is financed, no matter what form of government you have, their collective output is that of 170 million people.
You get some of them to build, maintain, and crew an aircraft carrier, then those specific people are not going to be available for building, maintaining, and staffing 40 or so schools.