Elon Musk uses chaos and cruelty under the false guise of creating government efficiency but his schemes meet resistance

Echo opinion letter published in the Los Angeles Times and in Yahoo.com

To the editor: If the chief executive of any private company were to conduct a "downsizing" as chaotically and cruelly as Elon Musk has as head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, he would be fired. ("Key agencies tell workers not to respond to Musk email demanding to know what they did last week," Feb. 23)😕😟😖😳

Consider Musk's record: Indiscriminate mass firings of employees without regard to qualifications or performance; absurd demands that Pentagon supervisors produce lists within days of thousands of civilian employees to be fired; insulting requirements that government employees explain what they have accomplished in the last week, under threat of termination if they don't; and clueless terminations of employees who safeguard our nuclear arsenal (oops).

In the face of criticism of this scorched-earth🔥 destruction of the federal workforce (will anyone ever want to work for the government again❓), Trump and his wingman Musk mug for the crowd with chainsaws and send out demeaning cartoons on X/ oblivious to the anxiety, fears 😭and uncertainty of each and every one of those fired employees.

No normal CEO would ever survive such a show of incompetence and cruelty.   Brian Gough, Santa Barbara, California