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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This new EO will complete destroy the economy in the DC metro and the US at large. Requiring that agencies get rid of 4 employees for every 1 employee they hire. This rule basically mandates that government agencies reduce their staff by 8% each year. In combination with mass scale RIFs you are easily looking at a 30-50% decline in the federal workforce. In combination with the proposed budget cuts of 250 billion per year, you are looking at job losses in excess of 3 million people for the US. This does not even consider the spillover effects of employed people cutting back on spending due to lower consumer confidence. It will be an unmitigated economic disaster that is completely self inflicted. [/quote]

This is a declaration of war on the middle class - coming after the tech layoffs over the past two years, flooding the market with experienced and credentialed white collar workers who were (in many agencies) underpaid will stagnate salaries for twenty years.

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Most of y’all aren’t qualified for a real job. Hope you can learn a trade.[/quote]

+1. Everyone complaining should try working a real job like being a plumber. There are plenty of job openings. Plus you just may enjoy it -- much more fulfilling and respectable than sitting at a desk typing "reports" and doing emails for a living. [/quote]

My uncle had a “real job” as a bricklayer. His body was destroyed by the time he was 50 and he was taken care of because he had benefits arranged for by those report writers and email senders. Then when his wife got Alzheimer’s and had to go in a Medicare funded nursing home, it was his federal employee nephew, my dad, who navigated finding her a bed and paid for extra services, not her useless plumber son who couldn’t be bothered to figure it out because it interfered with their free time to drink and so drugs. So spare me your salt of the earth noble tradesman bs. I’ve got them in my family and most of them are life’s losers who would take the first handout that came their way, and the ones who aren’t run rings around them, make a ton of money, and send their kids to college.  [/quote]

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