Dec. 7, 2024 - Dennis Prager Show
02:14
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| Only 6% of federal employees work from an office full-time, and a third are fully remote. | |
| All right, so let's go ahead and flip the numbers. | |
| 94% of the people that you pay to go to work in Washington, D.C. work from home. | |
| Oftentimes, they're not even working. | |
| Here's a quote from Senator Joni Ernst. | |
| She says, So you had 97% occupancy before COVID hit. | |
| Today, 6% of workers report in person on a full-time basis, while nearly one-third are entirely remote. | |
| But government office buildings The general service administration, which manages federal real estate, the manager of that, the guy that runs the general services administration, that runs the federal real estate, works from home in Missouri. | |
| I mean, this is insane. | |
| This is insane. | |
| Office buildings are so empty, I'm sure some of you heard of this, or heard about this, that office buildings are so empty that the water supply at the office of the EPA, which is the Environmental Protection Agency, which is tasked with ensuring clean drinking water, was left stagnant for so long that it developed dangerous bacteria. | |
| This is sickening. | |
| Now let me ask you a question. | |
| Let's flip this. | |
| I think one of the issues when it comes to government and government spending, and I think sometimes why people are either so oblivious to it or simply don't care, is because we're not forced to think about it or to think about it in a critical manner. | |
| But let me ask you this. | |
| You pay a mortgage. | |
| You pay rent. | |
| All right? | |
| So if you're paying rent... | |
| I mean, if you're paying rent somewhere, are you going to pay rent somewhere or a mortgage somewhere if you're only expecting to be there 6% of the time? |
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