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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]
Lol you think Elon and Trump think a plumber is more respectable than a white collar worker?

When was the last time either sat and had a meal with a plumber?

BTW dh is in IT and deals with alot of our plumbing issues.[/quote]

My husband has an advanced STEM degree and he installs and fixes all our appliances, handles all our plumbing stuff, and completely renovated our basement including doing tiling and drywall. Anything he doesn’t know how to do he just watches a video on YouTube. We haven’t had to pay for a tradesperson in years. I’m pretty sure he could do your job, but I’m pretty sure you couldn’t do his because you couldn’t do the math. [/quote]

Smartest person I know was a former quant at a hedge fund, with an autistic level IQ. He quit because he had a bizarre obsession with HVAC systems and now works in the HVAC industry. Second smartest I know, who I grew up with, is head of a large department at Trane. Your husband, despite being your little super hero, is a literal midwit compared to both of them. I too have "an advanced STEM degree" (lol what kind of moron even uses that term) from a top engineering school and I can tell you that there are plenty of not that smart people who manage to hack it at the math required to graduate, so please spare us your acting like your husband is God's gift to both mathematics and the trades. [/quote]

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