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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]
Interesting you mention the trade workers. The federal government has thousands of trade workers littered all around the country. My agency employs welders, pipe fitters, plumbers, water linemen, mechanics, electricians, and others. Those people were also sent the fork in the road early resignation letters. Musky and his herd are just doing scorched earth without any thought in the jobs people do. the nuclear scientist jobs was the perfect example. [/quote]

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