Any cost cutter worth his salt could find 70,000 to cut in the U.S. government in about five minutes. From Joel Bowman at joelbowman.substack.com:
Plus, Milei’s plan to fire 70,000 government “workers,” America’s own bloated federal payrolls and plenty more…
“There’s a lot more chainsaw.”
~ Javier Milei speaking at the IEFA Latam Forum in Buenos Aires this week
Joel Bowman, with today’s Note From the End of the World…
We begin today’s installment with a definition of terms. What, in colloquial parlance, is a “gnocchi”?
Ñoquis (noun; English “Gnocchi”) – slang, informal:
A person who is legally registered as a worker, usually for the government, and receives a monthly wage, but who performs little or no work.
A bottom-feeding bureaucrat whose work is of little-to-no value and who secures a government paycheck by means of legerdemain and knavery.
See also: sinecure; no-show jobs; ghost worker; nepo-babies; and the entire, guilt-based industry centered around Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI).
The etymology of the term ñoquis derives from the traditional practice – here in Argentina…and across the Rio de la Plata, in neighboring Uruguay – of eating the Italian-style dumplings on the 29th of each month. Back in “the day,” workers received their wages at the end of the month. By the time the 29th rolled around, many were struggling to make ends meet. Hence the inexpensive, potato-based pasta dish, made to fill the stomach, if not quite satisfy the appetite.
(Government workers head to the office here in Argentina… Source: Getty)
Make Work, Fake Work
In the middle of the 20th Century, when “to be rich like an Argentine” was something people said with a straight face, the country enjoyed the productivity of a thriving private sector. Having never met a golden goose it did not want to swallow, whole, those in the governing public sector were soon sharpening their knives and tucking in their napkins.
Alas, as the centralizing power of the state swelled, it drew to its bloated center all manner of parasites, hangers-on and bottom-feeding leeches, the so-called “political caste.”
It is these “workers,” whose only reliable action is to show up on the 29th day of the month in order to collect their paycheck, to whom the honest workers of Argentina refer to as “ñoquis.”
STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC 
I can’t have those anymore and we need an intervention with the greedy corrupt crony capitalists before it really is a smoldering ruin like the Barry/Brandon my work here is done demotivational.
Grammaw was from Sicily and made some killer gnocchis and homemade elephant wings and pizzas with hand kneaded dough, she would laugh out loud at store bought gnocchis.
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