Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes
by leereeves on Saturday February 22, 2025 @12:51PM
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Read the article. It's not just data storage. Hundreds of people actually work there, processing the applications there, by hand, on paper.
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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes
by djur on Saturday February 22, 2025 @03:54PM
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The article says they couldn't confirm Musk's claims about the number of employees.
Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes
by leereeves on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:04PM
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Snopes hasn't confirmed it in 2025 but they did say that in 2014 the Washington Post reported that 600 people worked there.
Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes
by ceejayoz on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:49PM
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So 0.01% of the Federal workforce or so?
Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes
by ZeroGravitas on Saturday February 22, 2025 @05:20PM
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The facility website says they have roughly 1100 workers there daily, but those aren't all government since other work goes on there too.
Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes
by ZeroGravitas on Saturday February 22, 2025 @05:16PM
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Hers a PDF detailing some of the audio and photographic professionals that work "down the mine" in the state of the art digitisation facilities that corporations have there:
https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/ironmountain-c8dd68e9/media/pr...
So why would it be by definition considered waste that a government has employees working on paper records stored in the same place?
There is absolutely no reason to think this is ridiculous. These types of sites exist all over the world. Yet Elon Musk claims it's ridiculous and people now have to defend that claim?