{"id":6682,"date":"2025-02-16T23:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T23:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/a-government-workers-message-for-elon-musk\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T23:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T23:33:11","slug":"a-government-workers-message-for-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/a-government-workers-message-for-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"A government worker&#8217;s message for Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Coal mining has always been dangerous, one of the deadliest professions in the nation. In the 20th century, more than 100,000 workers died in the U.S. mining industry.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Mark experienced that risk first-hand. &#8220;I started the mines in 1976; it was almost 50 years ago,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I worked underground altogether for about two years. And I can tell you, I was almost killed a couple times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mine safety has been Mark&#8217;s life&#8217;s work. In his 20s, he left the coalfields to earn a Ph.D., then returned as an engineer for the federal government. His efforts have helped save countless lives underground. &#8220;It was still maybe a coal miner every week that was being killed in a rock fall,&#8221; he said. &#8220;In 2016, we had our first year with zero, a really tremendous accomplishment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I asked, &#8220;At the end of the day, you work essentially for the worker, not for the corporations?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s exactly right,&#8221; said Mark. &#8220;And we were asked to do this by the public. It was the public&#8217;s demand that was reflected in the laws that were passed by Congress. And that&#8217;s all we&#8217;ve been doing ever since.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So for you, this isn&#8217;t just about a government budget; this is life and death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely, absolutely,&#8221; he replied. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-small\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"christopher-mark.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/16\/b147c9b3-cc71-4e06-9246-c5a615ff20e0\/thumbnail\/620x465\/88b929791c8bbb0f276f68cd01243f8d\/christopher-mark.jpg?v=f303dc12868a012283443d8b9123e5fe 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/16\/b147c9b3-cc71-4e06-9246-c5a615ff20e0\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/18dccf7d24fb168756e8d093b3f3f625\/christopher-mark.jpg?v=f303dc12868a012283443d8b9123e5fe 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Mine safety engineer Christopher Mark.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Christopher Mark<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We met Mark in the historic coal country of Western Pennsylvania. He agreed to speak with us as a private citizen \u2013 not as a representative of his employer, the Department of Labor. His reason? He is deeply concerned about the Trump administration&#8217;s sweeping criticism of federal workers.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;I still have the most precious American right, which is the right to free speech, so long as I&#8217;m speaking to my own personal capacity, and so that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, you&#8217;re not afraid?&#8221; I asked. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d be foolish if I wasn&#8217;t afraid,&#8221; he replied. <\/p>\n<p>Since taking office, President Trump has enlisted billionaire industrialist <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/elon-musk-special-government-employee-what-does-that-mean\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Elon Musk<\/a><\/span> as a special government employee, and they have launched a crusade to winnow the ranks of federal workers \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs8.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/trump-offers-all-federal-workers-buyout\/507-25012240-8ccf-4a4a-bbdd-a0fc07300c4e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">encouraging more than two million of them to consider quitting<\/a> \u2014  and moving to shutter entire agencies. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I campaigned on the fact that I said government is corrupt, and it is very corrupt,&#8221; Mr. Trump said last week. &#8220;It&#8217;s very, very, uh, it&#8217;s also foolish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, there are reports that hundreds of thousands of recently-hired federal employees could soon be terminated. <\/p>\n<p>Last Tuesday, Musk, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/elon-musk-trump-doge-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">speaking in the Oval Office<\/a><\/span>, claimed that the American people wanted such firings. &#8220;You couldn&#8217;t ask for a stronger mandate from the public,&#8221; Musk said. &#8220;The public voted, uh, the majority of the public voted for President Trump.&#8221; <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img alt=\"Trump White Hosue \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/16\/312f1aff-0e7f-4673-bd46-07aa0992195e\/thumbnail\/620x349\/b373230f5dabb3facdc4b5f1da41d89a\/trump-musk-oval-office-getty-2198425915.jpg?v=f303dc12868a012283443d8b9123e5fe 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/16\/312f1aff-0e7f-4673-bd46-07aa0992195e\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/33b3097c6dd6721aeed0123cbed3e66c\/trump-musk-oval-office-getty-2198425915.jpg?v=f303dc12868a012283443d8b9123e5fe 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Elon Musk (with his son, X \u00c6 A-Xii) talked about addressing an &#8220;unelected bureaucracy,&#8221; as President Donald Trump signed an executive order mandating sweeping cuts in the government workforce, with any new hires to be done in consultation with Musk&#8217;s DOGE task force, in the Oval Office, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Jabin Botsford\/The Washington Post via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trump and Musk&#8217;s campaign has sparked anger. At a February 7 protest outside the offices of USAID, one protester said, &#8220;We are out here trying, but we need every American to care, because this <em>will<\/em> impact every American.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img alt=\"Washington-DC-Anti-DOGE-Protest-US-Health-and-Human-Services-Off \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/16\/d21615ca-96d2-4b17-83f9-a68c457459d6\/thumbnail\/620x465\/5b75ac1287dce68a457e75b49f7980d1\/washington-protest-getty-2198907027.jpg?v=f303dc12868a012283443d8b9123e5fe 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/16\/d21615ca-96d2-4b17-83f9-a68c457459d6\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/c8c5a2682ab265cc950dbfb4f3949143\/washington-protest-getty-2198907027.jpg?v=f303dc12868a012283443d8b9123e5fe 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Demonstrators gather outside of the offices of the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., February 14, 2025, to protest Elon Musk&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) budget cuts and employee terminations, and to support federal workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                BRYAN DOZIER\/Middle East Images\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It has also forced a reckoning over what Americans want from their government. According to bestselling author Michael Lewis, &#8220;I think, as we speak, our country is getting an education of what its government does, because it feels it has to. Who knew what USAID was three weeks ago?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an upcoming book, Lewis poses the question: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/788713\/who-is-government-by-edited-by-michael-lewis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Who Is Government?&#8221;<\/a> (to be published March 18 by Riverhead Books). &#8220;Virtually every existential risk we face, we don&#8217;t turn to the private sector to respond to it; we turn to the government,&#8221; Lewis said. &#8220;The federal government&#8217;s mission is to keep us safe. And you don&#8217;t really know that that insurance policy&#8217;s not there until it isn&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-small\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/16\/03fb0c41-b42b-41b8-bb2e-643f1e4f2a2e\/thumbnail\/620x936\/58eeb07aa9f1db65e00011a74d4cf4a0\/who-is-government-cover-riverhead-books.jpg?v=f303dc12868a012283443d8b9123e5fe#\" alt=\"who-is-government-cover-riverhead-books.jpg \" height=\"936\" width=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/16\/03fb0c41-b42b-41b8-bb2e-643f1e4f2a2e\/thumbnail\/620x936\/58eeb07aa9f1db65e00011a74d4cf4a0\/who-is-government-cover-riverhead-books.jpg?v=f303dc12868a012283443d8b9123e5fe 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/16\/03fb0c41-b42b-41b8-bb2e-643f1e4f2a2e\/thumbnail\/1240x1872\/e3175dd272e20e6413233f531b190242\/who-is-government-cover-riverhead-books.jpg?v=f303dc12868a012283443d8b9123e5fe 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Riverhead Books<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The book is based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/interactive\/2025\/who-is-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a Washington Post series<\/a> Lewis edited last year, with little-known stories of federal workers. &#8220;Just look at Christopher Mark&#8217;s life work,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If we had just removed Christopher Mark from the history of the federal government, <em>thousands<\/em> of coal miners are dead. It&#8217;s <em>one person<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Profiling military cemetery managers, and mission specialists for space exploration, Lewis and his co-authors make the case that claims of an impersonal so-called &#8220;deep state&#8221; are off-base; and that while there may be places for trims and updated systems, they argue the federal workforce is largely individuals dedicated to the public good. Lewis said, &#8220;It&#8217;s people who have been attracted to a problem. The government is there to solve lots of problems, usually problems that the market doesn&#8217;t want to solve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I asked, &#8220;Some people say government should run like a business. Are they right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, they&#8217;re wrong!&#8221; Lewis replied. &#8220;I don&#8217;t see how you would run the government as a business, because the kind of problems the government is addressing, they&#8217;re addressing it because you can&#8217;t make money addressing it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The modern federal government took shape almost a century ago in response to the Great Depression. FDR&#8217;s New Deal, followed by World War II, expanded government&#8217;s reach into most every aspect of life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And since then, many conservatives have been pushing back. President Ronald Reagan infamously said, &#8220;The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: &#8216;I&#8217;m from the government, and I&#8217;m here to help.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the 1980s, Reagan laid the foundation for what President Trump and Musk are doing today.<\/p>\n<p>I asked Lewis, &#8220;There is an ethos in Silicon Valley: Move fast, break things, disrupt. You&#8217;ve covered leaders in that sector for decades. Does that approach work when it comes to the federal government, and the stakes are different?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t work very well,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;If you take the kind of Elon Musk approach to the federal government \u2013 walking in (as he did at Twitter) and say, &#8216;All you people are useless, we&#8217;re going to get rid of half of you,&#8217; operating with kind of fear and chaos \u2013 I don&#8217;t think any big institution is going to respond well to the, like, &#8216;move fast and break things&#8217; approach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked for comment, a White House spokesman said the president is confident in Musk and his ability to &#8220;shake things up,&#8221; and said criticism of his method is &#8220;fear-mongering.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Costa asked mine safety engineer Christopher Mark, &#8220;When you walk in this restaurant, people don&#8217;t necessarily say, &#8216;There&#8217;s a federal worker.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No. That&#8217;s right,&#8221; he replied. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-small\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"govt-worker-christopher-mark-1280.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/16\/825ebb10-cfcc-47f7-b626-5e3bd69bc55c\/thumbnail\/620x465g2\/0e50f195a73104f067fafd9f1a516f0a\/govt-worker-christopher-mark-1280.jpg?v=f303dc12868a012283443d8b9123e5fe 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/16\/825ebb10-cfcc-47f7-b626-5e3bd69bc55c\/thumbnail\/1240x930g2\/4034955214433d9c7e9afa928d506639\/govt-worker-christopher-mark-1280.jpg?v=f303dc12868a012283443d8b9123e5fe 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Mine safety engineer Christopher Mark.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;They say, &#8216;That&#8217;s a coal miner. That&#8217;s my friend. That&#8217;s someone who works on mine safety.&#8217; But they&#8217;re not thinking about you necessarily as part of the federal government \u2013 and that doesn&#8217;t <em>help<\/em> the federal government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Another thing is that the federal government doesn&#8217;t have money to advertise itself,&#8221; said Mark. &#8220;You know, people can say whatever they want about us, and we, you know, really can&#8217;t respond.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For Mark, there is little he can do to stave off the wave of changes from Washington. But he says he&#8217;ll carry on, his head up, as long as he can. <\/p>\n<p>I asked, &#8220;If you could bring Elon Musk down to the mines, what would you say to him?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, I would say, &#8216;You know, there&#8217;s a lot of people that have to work in these mines and they deserve to be able to come home at the end of the shift to their family safely,'&#8221; Mark replied. &#8220;&#8216;And we&#8217;re a part of making that happen. You can&#8217;t take us out of the equation, <em>and <\/em>be sure that they&#8217;re going to return home safely to their families.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>For more info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>Story produced by Ed Forgotson. 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