Posted on 06/04/2018 11:15:42 AM PDT by John Semmens
News that the Trump Administration has eliminated 24,000 federal government jobs was described as devastating by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif). The cut amounts to less than 1% of the total federal government workforce.
Taking a meat axe approach is destroying the finely tuned machine that kept America humming during the eight years President Obama ran the country. Federal workers are the employees who make the rules that tell everyone else what to do. The loss of so many vital cogs in the machinery of government will no doubt lead to widespread confusion and chaos.
Not only will the nation suffer from Trumps ignorance of how the country works, but the human cost to these hard-working public servants will be severe, she added. Unlike the skills needed to thrive in the private sector, the skills of crafting regulations and processing forms are not easily transferable. I wouldnt be surprised to see thousands of those cut from the federal payroll end up homeless, depressed and drunk or worse. In the absence of sensible gun control laws how many of these unfortunates will go on killing sprees?
The former Speaker called on state and local governments to take up the slack. Thankfully, at the same time Trump has been cutting jobs, states have added 2,000 and local governments 6,000 new positions. This is an encouraging start, but we will need to see at least a tripling of this effort just to break even.
Meanwhile, in the private sector, the number of employed Americans has set a new highthe 9th such since Trumps assumption of the presidency. The number of employed men and women set new record highs. Unemployment for Blacks and Hispanics also hit record lows. Unsurprisingly, two-thirds of respondents now say that the economy is stronga finding that long-time Democratic pollster John Zogby called a bad omen for our Party in the upcoming November election.
In related news, Rep. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev) charged that the Trump-designed and Republican-passed tax cut has unfairly rigged the upcoming Nevada senatorial election against me. Her complaint relates to the increased take home pay her campaign staff has experienced since the new tax law went into effect. The extra $400 a month my campaign manager is getting is sapping his enthusiasm and diluting my message to Nevada voters. Rosen demanded that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller add this latest example of collusion between Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress to interfere in the next election to the list of crimes he is investigating.
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https://azconservative.org/2018/06/02/devastating-federal-payroll-cut/
Funny, Crazy Nancy never complained when Silicon Valley terminated 50k, in 2002 and replaced them with workers in India.
Many were required to train in their replacements.
This one was really, really good. I found myself believing every word, as I read it, even knowing it was satire.
Now, cut 1% of the budget every year for 7 years, and we have a balanced budget.
Hey federal government folks, you should “do more with less” as our private sector employers often tell those remaining after layoffs. The federal government is being “right-sized.”
"Federal workers are the employees who make the rules that tell everyone else what to do."
She actually really said it with a straight face as though it were a good thing!
More fake news. Hate blog pimps on FR.
You were doing okay right up until the part about the Democrat actually paying her campaign staff.
Everyone knows the Democrats almost always screw their own employees.
Money quote from Pelosi:
“Federal workers are the employees who make the rules that tell everyone else what to do.”
She actually really said it with a straight face as though it were a good thing! “””
She also said it as tho it were legal for that to happen !!!!
We could painlessly cut the federal workforce through attrition. No one need be fired. But upon the death or resignation or retirement of any federal worker, simply do not replace them.
Pelosi calls it devastating,but I bet many workers in the private sector are calling it by another name.
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