Firing lots of Federal workers would in the long term increase the country’s productivity. All this lily-gilding (at best) doesn’t produce something truly good.
I could see some kind of ridiculously generous severance package, but ushering a truly tangible number off the taxpaid payroll will help, not hinder, America’s productivity.
What is more productive for the country, a federal bureaucrat who is fully employed making rules, enforcing rules, shuffling papers, or one who has been fired and now collecting unemployment?
Obviously, we are better off should we fire as many bureaucrats as possible even if we have to pay for their food stamps.
Socialists are of the (unfounded) opinion that the more bureaucrats the better off the country will be. But like all things socialist, this is “unsustainable”, a concept the socialists themselves love to scold us about.