The Federal Retirement Mine: It’s a Real Thing!
By Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
February 13, 2025
Today we learned that Federal Employees ride tricycles around the Limestone caves to fetch the Government employee retirement documents.
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) February 12, 2025
WHAT IN THE WILLY WONKA HOBBIT IS GOING ON HERE 💀 pic.twitter.com/9s3VzOctae
Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process… pic.twitter.com/dXCTgpAWLs
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 11, 2025
🚨BREAKING: Elon Musk says that there is a literal limestone mine where they store all the US Government's retirement paperwork built in 1950 that they need to go up and down every time they want to retire someone from Federal Government. The speed in which they can retire people… pic.twitter.com/IJju7DurLo
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) February 11, 2025
This story originally appeared in Clay Travis and Buck Sexton