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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't he just shoot a lot of his regular people -- i.e. his electorate -- in the foot? I feel like nearly all administrative and "non specialized" positions (i.e. not doctors and lawyers) have pretty much been filled via veterans preference in recent years. It's a pretty guaranteed route to hiring when your only marketable skills are infantry. Guess that's over for now.[/quote]

Not to mention that 85% of federal workers are outside the DMV area.  This hurts rural areas in the midwest and south just as much if not more than DC, which is what most people cheering think it will do.[/quote]

I've lived in one of those southern small towns and getting into the federal government is THE GOAL. People apply for years to be able to get in. It's their goal for their kids to get in etc. Bc they see it as lifetime security and they/their kids don't have to worry about what happens when the small business that was employing them goes under or can't pay rising health insurance costs or whatever. Whereas in DC you often (but not always) take a pay cut to go to the gov't -- in those areas, gov't workers live like kings in large part bc they can stretch to buy a home that others in town can't/won't bc they have the lifetime security of being employed and thus able to pay the mortgage.[/quote]

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