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[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]

In the immortal words of Judge Smails, "the world needs ditch diggers, too."  [/quote]

Do you see how that comment is unhelpful? Why comment at all? Telling people who have become high-level, technical experts in health, education, biology, ecology, etc. to work as ditch diggers is absurd. How does that make the US better? [/quote]

It wasn't meant to be helpful, quite obviously.

Like another PP, this thread has made it increasingly difficult to feel sorry for federal workers.  I understand that everyone is the hero (or victim) of their own story, and that the impending layoffs will cause tremendous hardships for many people.  I am absolutely sympathetic to that.  But many posters on this thread take is a few steps further - that the federal layoffs - the loss of employment for federal workers - is what will crash the economy, and the country.  That is effin' ridiculous.  We are facing massive deterioration in services to vulnerable populations, at home and abroad; the elimination of the United States as the de factor leader of Western democracies; huge disruptions in international trade for reasons that aren't entirely clear; and a whole host of other problems.  All "organized," if that's the word, by a vengeful narcissist and  his ketamine-addled billionaire puppet (or puppetmaster, take your pick) who appears to be doing this for sh!ts and giggles. Anyone who things that unemployed federal workers competing for jobs with private sector workers is the biggest issue we have has their head so far up their own @ss that they can see out of their belly button.

So no, the comment wasn't meant to be helpful.  It's meant to convey that on an individual, former federal workers need to do what they have to to provide for themselves and their families, and to resist the temptation to believe that what is happening to you is the greatest crisis facing the country.  It isn't.[/quote]

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