Elon Musk’s DOGE has revealed that the federal government is using an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania to store tens of thousands, if not millions of physical paper files in cardboard boxes.
The files are just retirement documents for federal workers, so could easily be digitised, yet the government has continued to physically store them.
The mine is 230 feet underground and requires over 700 workers with the Office of Personnel Management to operate and upkeep it.
Just why? https://t.co/kRf4sEctfb
— m o d e r n i t y (@ModernityNews) February 12, 2025
What the hell?
At least if there is a nuclear apocalypse whoever survives in here will have access to…information on retired government workers.
Musk shared the insane finding, noting “Maybe it’s just me, but I think there is room for improvement here.”
Maybe it’s just me, but I think there is room for improvement here https://t.co/gQqx3sAOyZ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 12, 2025
The vault inside Iron Mountain which is equipped with a huge reservoir for geothermal cooling.
A 2021 report uncovered that despite spending $106 million spent trying to digitize the process, the government abandoned the idea and decided to stick with the stone mine.
Labelling it a “time warp,” Musk noted that “The limiting factor is the speed at which the mine shaft elevator can move determines how many people can retire from the federal government.”
“The elevator breaks down sometimes, and nobody can retire,” Musk revealed, adding “Doesn’t that sound crazy?”
Musk also revealed that since 2014 they had gotten to the letter B in their efforts to digitize the records.
?ELON MUSK: "The maximum retirement rate is 10,000 people a month because the retirement is entirely paperwork manually put in an envelope and taken down a mine shaft and stored in a mine. One of the things that affects the rate at which federal workers can retire is the speed… pic.twitter.com/cPqk5sbzcd
— Autism Capital ? (@AutismCapital) February 13, 2025
The DOGE post has close to 45 million views at time of writing.
Commenting on the mine and other “rot” being exposed by DOGE, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday on Fox News that the media was left in “sheer silence.”
“I was watching the faces of the mainstream media reporters who were in the Oval Office, and there was sheer silence because it appeared that many of them who are supposed to be writing the truth about our federal bureaucracy had no idea that the federal retirement system is being processed deep into the ground and is not computerized,” Leavitt said.
BREAKING: @karolineleavitt promises @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk will shut down the bureaucratic retirement caves.. pic.twitter.com/gVFyczegg7
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) February 13, 2025
“They, the president and Elon are shining a light on the truth about our federal government. But the mainstream media simultaneously is saying there’s an alleged lack of transparency and access. It’s preposterous,” Leavitt continued, adding “Together, President Trump and Elon, the entire DOGE team and this entire administration are shining a light on the corruption, the waste, the fraud and abuse.”
“Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and they are revealing the rot of this city every single day. It’s music to the ears of the American people who voted for this. As you rightly pointed out, 77 million of them liked what President Trump promised on the campaign trail, and he is delivering and it’s fascinating,” Leavitt urged.
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Google AI tells us:
A fire at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis, Missouri on July 12, 1973 destroyed between 16 and 18 million military personnel records. The fire primarily affected records for U.S. Army, Army Air Force, and Air Force personnel.
What records were lost?
About 80% of records for Army personnel discharged between 1912 and 1960
About 75% of records for Air Force personnel discharged between 1947 and 1964 with surnames from Hubbard through “Z”
How were records treated?
Staff quickly identified and preserved other record series that could verify service
Documents were treated with HEPA vacuums to remove debris and mold spores
Torn or distorted records were sent to a wet lab for treatment
Pages were placed in a humidification chamber to relax the paper fibers
Loose fragments were reattached with handmade starch paste and a thin repair tissue
It cost many millions of dollars to restore damaged files. A horde of veterans were harmed by the loss especially those wounded in battle or injured performing duties since medical care at vet clinics and hospitls had to await verification that, at times, was never obtained.
Electronic records can be backed up and stored at multiple locations to ensure safety of the records.
They’re physical copies of legal documents. Making them digital means they could, potentially, be hacked or deleted or adjusted without the recipient knowing until their pension stops. Think about it-would you trust the government with instant easy access to a digital copy of your pension policy?
Yes, they have a physical copy of it but look how long it has taken them just to digitise A-B-they’re never going to mess with them unless they burn the mine down…
WTF?