How long till the economy collapses?

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02/16/2025 11:33

Subject: Re:How long till the economy collapses?

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Anonymous wrote:I hope YOUR economy collapses. You all couldn’t just be content with your bureaucratic, do-nothing, $140,000 a year jobs—which the rest of us had to pay for.

No, you had to use the bureaucratic state to push left-wing ideology on the country in ways that were unquestionably illegal. Remember when you guys got military members fired for not taking the vaccine? (“No one elected Elon!” Interesting, now what about Fauci?)

So I don’t really care that you’re going to have to sell your Arlington home and go back to whatever LCOL town you’re originally from and try to start a new career at age 51. Sorry, not sorry.

You sound really unhappy, and your rage is really misplaced.

Part of joining up is literally giving up that kind of autonomy. You do what they say or you’re out, whether it’s because your CO tells you to get a shot for Covid or malaria or whatever or if they tell you to charge when bullets are flying at you in combat. I don’t remember any public servants cheering for people to be fired, and certainly the ones who developed a vaccine didn’t intend harm. It’s pretty bizarre to me that you want every single bureaucrat to be punished because of this one thing, a thing that helped us save lives.

It’s also bizarre that you believe those of us in the capital city wish harm on others. I was born and raised here. It’s my hometown, but I have aunts, uncles, cousins, in-laws throughout the US, including in red states. I don’t wish any of them harm, even when I’m upset with them, and I don’t cheer for their destruction, neither do my neighbors, including Feds, some of whom voted for Trump.

People, or maybe they aren’t really even people, say ridiculous stuff to each other online. But I promise you, there isn’t some secret cabal of bureaucrats plotting how to ruin lives. People go into public service to help others. These are people who have a lot of options, but chose this thankless, unglamorous work because they believe in our country, even when it’s not perfect, even when it’s very far short of living up to its ideals. I’m not a Fed. But the idea that my neighbors who are Feds are schemers or anything other than ordinary people with families, trying to do some good before they die, is absurd and it’s deeply troubling that you’re quicker to believe that than that a Billionaire who has made a fortune in government contracts is a disinterested party just trying to help the common American.

Sorry, but the vast majority of federal employees don't work in those jobs to "try to do some good." They do it because it's an easy 9-5 with decent benefits and they couldn't get hired in the private sector.

You really don’t get it, do you? Nearly all the Feds they just cut are easily employable and highly educated. They will be scooped up by foreign governments/companies as we continue our backslide into the dark ages.

Some Feds certainly choose the lower pay for a better work/life balance and “security.” They won’t now, and that’s to our detriment. We got talent we couldn’t otherwise afford.

Again, the deficit is still going to balloon, and Musk is going to funnel billions to himself through government contracts. His pet project is getting to Mars. That’s not cheap. And rather than going through the proper channels, to get this prioritized by our elected officials, or not, since last time I checked it was way down the list of the average person’s priorities, he’s just taking the money. Both at the expense of middle class government workers and adjacent industries across the US and at the expense of the Americans dependent on some form of the social safety net, including veteran benefits, Medicaid, social security, unemployment insurance, disability, etc.

Can you people please get your story straight? Will the “easily employable” fired Feds be quickly “scooped up,” or will their firing make the US an economic wasteland indistinguishable from Somalia?

Why not both? Why do you think that highly employable skilled government workers employed by foreign governments would conflict at all with the US becoming less prosperous, possibly sliding into a depression, and becoming, little by little a dictatorship / pariah state. Letting our governmental talent go is something we can't easily come back from. Witness what happened four decades ago with the air traffic controllers. We still haven't recovered as a nation from Reagan's hasty firing of them.

The GOP never learn from their mistakes. They keep trying the same plans over and over again thinking "this will be the time!" See trickle down economics etc. See no government regulation. Then Dems have to come in and clean up after them. And so on..