by New York Post Editorial Board
In what has to be its wackiest nugget yet, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency this week revealed that “Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania.”
Really and truly.
During a briefing in the Oval Office, Musk gave more details, explaining that the clunky, decades-old system means that “the most number of people that could retire possibly in a month is 10,000.”
Indeed, “The speed at which the mine shaft elevator can move determines how many people can retire from the federal government,” Musk marveled.
And when the elevator breaks down, “nobody can retire. Doesn’t that sound crazy?”
Sure does, but somehow, the “retirement mine” is completely real.