The mass firing of federal workers is a privatization boondoggle to rip off taxpayers and put us into company towns.
It couldn't be clearer that the whole purpose of firing all these staff is to privatize everything by force, and follow through with their plans to form corporate fiefdoms.
They've described this privatization in Project 2025, and the tycoon guru Curtis Yarvin has explained this is how the plan is to bring in the monarchy, which is also sometimes called "the network state". Or the egregiously misnamed "freedom cities". (Give me a break!)
The locals here in the Poconos in Northeastern Pennsylvania can see the writing on the wall with the terminations proposed at the Tobyhanna Army Depot.
'This is a way to shut our agency down,' says union president, Tobyhanna Army Depot employees worried about job security - WVIA | By Kat Bolus | WVIA News Published March 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM EST If probationary employees are released, George said contract employees who cost sustainably (sic) more will come in to fill those positions.
Tycoons and lawyers are absolutely giddy at the prospect of the privatization boondoggles. They're absolutely planning to soak the American purse and the taxpayers are going to pay through the nose. They sell a mythical problem of so much "government waste" to MAGA supporters, who they hope won't notice when there's huge contractor bloat for private corporations.
Bluesky post March 1, 2025 - Lawyerlizz @lawyerlizz.bsky.social Remember, when the govt calls to hire you back, they need to go through your consulting firm and your rate is $5,000/hr per consultant. They just have a quick question? They can schedule a 30-min call by selecting an available time on your online calendar and paying the $5K "quick consult" fee. Reposting post by Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company. It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create. They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms. I’m happy to invest and/or help March 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM 5 likes 3 replies.
Billionaire Mark Cuban can't wait to get in on that action, he's broadcasting it public. And there were dozens of accounts on social media cheering over our government having to pay through the nose and benefitting people with a profit windfall because of the Trump Musk scorched earth federal firings of public employees.
All these tycoons have their profiteering plans for our labor, our money, and our public goods.
WIRED - By Caroline Haskins and Vittoria Elliott - Mar 7, 2025 2:48 PM - ‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’ - The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations. According to interviews and presentations viewed by WIRED, the goal of these cities would be to have places where anti-aging clinical trials, nuclear reactor startups, and building construction can proceed without having to get prior approval from agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
I'm sure someone is eyeing up Three Mile Island here in Pennsylvania right now. Microsoft was looking to start it up again after all. And there's already a tycoon that's got a finger on the pulse of Harrisburg – high-speed trading tycoon billionaire is behind Governor Josh Shapiro's support of school privatization.
The Nerd Reich - Network State Unveils Push for Corporate Dystopia Cities - Gil Duran 08 Mar 2025 Trump’s 2024 campaign proposed something called “freedom cities,” a lightly rebranded version of the Network State. Yet, most news outlets mentioned the idea without providing any real explanation of the concept. Let’s be clear: These cities will be controlled entirely by tech billionaires and corporations, operating outside of U.S. laws. As this story comes into focus, there is no reason why anyone should accept the Orwellian term “freedom city” to describe zones that will actually be devoid of the laws, rights, freedoms and protections of normal American law. The term is an overt political manipulation that should be rejected by media outlets going forward, as it serves only the interest of propaganda. Fascist Cities would be more accurate, though I’m sure U.S. newsrooms can find a milder term.
Let's just call them plantations or better yet – "company towns". I live in Scranton Pennsylvania so the best known company towns were COAL TOWNS, or "patch settlements" like Peek-a-Boo — the village where my maternal grandma grew up. It was owned by the anthracite coal mine company here in Northeastern Pennsylvania, and this was common throughout the anthracite coal region in that era. I myself live in a neighborhood adjacent to a former colliery site, in a house that was originally built by a coal mine company.
Mulrooney, Margaret M. “A Legacy of Coal: The Coal Company Towns of Southwestern Pennsylvania.” Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, vol. 4, 1991, pp. 130–37. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3514228. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025. The purpose of miners' housing was to increase productivity and profits by attracting labor, reducing job turnover, and establishing control over the labor supply.4 This strategy worked best when houses were owned as well as built by the company. Discontented miners were less likely to cause trouble when faced with the threat of eviction. Although commended in the early stages of the industry as a practical and economical means of obtaining a labor supply for remote mines, coal towns came increasingly under fire after 1900 for what were seen as inherently exploitative methods of labor management and substandard living condition Designed and constructed, for the most part, by mine engineers rather than architects, Pennsylvania's coal towns share a number of distinguishing characteristics. First, and most important, these towns were usually financed, built, owned, maintained, and operated by only one company. Companies provided houses, schools, churches, medical facilities, and a store where miners bought food, clothing, and supplies. In small towns, the store also housed the post office, once it had been established, and meeting rooms for various social functions. Larger communities had separate social halls and often boasted a hotel or movie theater as well. Streets were wide, with shallow setbacks; most were unpaved, although cinders and waste from the nearby slag heaps, called "red dog" or "boney," were used to keep the dust down. A second distinguishing feature of these towns is that the dominant dwelling throughout the period was a two-story house, either detached or semi-detached (Fig. 1). Families generally preferred detached or semi-detached structures over row houses or tenements, and although such houses were more expensive to build, coal-company housing took this form because coal operators consciously wanted to attract married men. Contemporary articles indicate that employers believed men with families to be far less transient than their single counterparts.
There were stories I heard from my childhood about how if the father worked in the coal mine, the son had to go into the mines as soon as possible so that if the father died on the job in a mine accident, they wouldn't just come dump his body on the porch and evict the widow and kids.
We’ve been here before. And I don’t want to go back to that. But I have no doubt today's tycoon operational plans would more crude, rude, and dastardly, based on how they behave and the things they do and say already.
Tech Billionaires’ Shocking Plot for Rural America More Perfect Union Sep 4, 2024 "So they're saying they want to be good neighbors with people in Solano County, at the same time, they're suing their own literal fence-by-fence neighbors."
It sounds silly but this is absolutely serious.
Blonde Politics | The Silly Serious – Nov 13, 2024 A look into how the tech leaders may be using the new administration to achieve their own agenda. Looking specifically at Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Marc Andressen, Ben Horotwitz, Brian Armstrong, and David Sacks as well as their relationship with figures like JD Vance, Balaji Srinivasan, and Curtis Yarvin.
If my grandpa was here, he could tell you the stories, having gone to work in the coal mines in 1919 at age 12. I remember standing in his backyard and him telling me no child should ever have to go to work like that, and warning me that tycoons just don't think and feel like the rest of us. And it's absolutely true, it's apparently been proven scientifically that power changes the brain — and apparently makes people act real shitty. And if this is scapegoating tycoons, it's scapegoating we should be doing instead of the targeting the people without that kind of power or with no power at all, because the tycoons sure don't need our advocacy, and they sure don't need our tax money either.
Privatization isn’t just about profiteering — it’s about corporate monarchy and the end of democracy.
Tycoons are bad enough, we certainly want NO KINGS.