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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since no one seems to be offering real solutions, I'm going to ask again in the hopes that someone will: what sorts of jobs are professional, college-educated, white collar workers who have been 'reduced' from the federal government supposed to do? If a person is currently making 125,000 per year, taking a payout to 100,000 might be doable, but no one is going to waste their time making 30,000 per year at McDonalds. That won't even pay for child care. The question is: are there currently enough white collar jobs empty in the country to accommodate these people? And, if not, how does it benefit the country to have a large number of these individuals unemployed? [/quote]
You find a job that pays you what the market seems you to be worth. If you cannot secure a similarly salaried job [b]then you have a problem[/b].[/quote]

DP. Yes this is the micro level way of looking at things. But on a macro level a bunch of laid off white collared workers who cannot replace their salaries is going to trickle down. Suddenly the mid career person making 150k has to take a job making 100k, which pushes out the people who would have worked that 100k job so now they’re taking the 70k jobs and so on. Also the people who just had their HHI slashed are canceling their house cleaners and home renos and lawn care and vacations.

Also not to mention private sector people will now be competing with all the feds for jobs. There are hundreds of applicants for 1 position. What happens to the private sector people who get bumped out of jobs by laid off feds?

None of this is happening in a vacuum. Regardless of how you feel, a bunch of laid of feds is society’s problem too.[/quote]

I don’t get why people don’t get this. It’s obvious. Nothing is in a vacuum. [/quote]
Tech had [b]hundreds of thousands of employees[/b] laid off following COVID and the economy didn’t collapse. I think a lot of people find the obvious entitlement of federal workers in this thread to be off putting. That’s a generalization but reading some of the comments in this thread make it very challenging for me to empathize with some of these individuals.[/quote]

Yeah, that's like a week worth of work for DOGE. Apples to oranges[/quote]

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