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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, are you and your husband something like federal judges, with guaranteed for life jobs?  Are you both irreplaceable uniquely skilled workers with special knowledge essential to the preservation of the Republic?  I'm misunderstanding something here-- you seem to be saying you and your husband are guaranteed lifetime employment or at least until you decide to retire or resign voluntarily.  And somehow Trump is illegally threatening your guaranteed lifetime employment?

Aside from that, what is the issue here? [/quote]

OP here. I could say the same thing to a friend who works in the private sector, who has had a good job for 20 years but the new CEO is a well-known prick and wants to fire half the staff to bring in his cronies. I would never tell them that’s just how it is, you’re not guaranteed a job, buck up and job hunt and I’m (sanctimoniously) praying to Jesus for you. IMAGINE saying shit like that to a friend living a middle class life paying for a few kids and trying to save for college and retirement. What kind of a person would lack empathy? Or is it just, as the Avenue Q song went… Schadenfreude? 
It’s like saying to someone who just found of they have cancer, “well, you did smoke 30 years ago and even if you didn’t smoke, the Potomac is tainted and you chose to live near it, but alas, I’ll pray for you!” [/quote][/quote]

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