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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1.5 million people lost their job in like a 60 day period in Financial Crisis and I dont recall anyone in Govt caring

114 million people lost their job in 2020 due to Covid and I dont recall govt workers caring.

I was out of work in Covid with two kids in college laid off and I recall govt workers on the block throwing parties, going to their beach house, sleeping in late swimming in their pool getting full pay for doing nothing all day.

Even if every Fed lost their job there are only 2 million. A rounding error compared to Covid or Financial Crisis.

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When you say government didn’t care what exactly do you mean? If you mean the people making the decisions on how to respond then you hopefully know that isn’t a reflection on the rank and file.

If you think individual feds didn’t care then you’re painting us as a monolith and you’re incredibly wrong. I was still a student during the financial crisis in 2008. I certainly cared at the time and found myself unemployed for a few months after graduation myself.

Re: COVID I do not know one.single.fed who was partying during it. Many of us had young kids. I was so busy trying to keep up with my workload (which didn’t stop I was just allowed to work at all hours to get it done) while keeping my young elementary kids up with virtual learning. I also felt terrible for the people who lost their jobs. I was supportive of the expanded unemployment. In the summer of 2020 I pulled my kids out of in-person childcare when our preschool asked us to reserve spots for essential in-person workers (they wanted smaller cohorts more spread out). I tipped extra on take out. I and many other feds cared very much. In fact a lot of us went into government work because we care about public service.

Saying no one cared during other economic crises is flat out wrong.

Also, once again, it’s not just fed lay offs affecting the economy. It’s the whole layoffs + tariffs + cutting funding (which affects nonprofits, education, farming, medical research, etc.) not to mention contractors. It’s so myopic to say this is a rounding error.[/quote]

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