Timothy Birdnow

Ri-ight...

Donald Trump’s decision to cut down the federal workforce could lead to an economic disaster in some parts of the country

The Federal workforce PRODUCES nothing; it takes and redistributes. You can no more cause an economic disaster by cutting government than you can get fat by reducing your daily caloric intake.

It MIGHT hurt communities where everyone works for the government - like Washington D.C. or Bethesda, Md. or whatnot. But that's a price worth paying to save the whole country. America does not owe a bunch of coddled bureaucrats a good living. They need to learn to work like the rest of us (and they weren't working - according to Joni Ernst only 6% show up at the office on a regular basis).

If the jobs aren't where these people live then they perhaps should go where the jobs are; most regular Americans do that. There is a reason why so many small towns have died as the economy shifted to overseas agricultural products; there were no jobs and the people had to leave to find them. Middle America suffered from this for decades and did so uncomplainingly (except perhaps singer John Mellencamp, who bitched about it bitterly, but then he was a hilljack, an Indiana hillbilly, your typical labor Democrat.) So now the beautiful people in the Deep State get to enjoy what they've foisted off on the rest of America. Not so much fun now, is it?

I really do sympathize with some of them; there are certainly good people who work for the Feds and it's going to be tough on them. But it had to be done and they shold have known it was coming at some point. They voted Demcrat repeatedly over the years, donated to them and grabbed too much. Now there is a correction and they can't live on less because they built their whole lives around the good living the U.S. government provided. In life you have to be prudent and prepare for the worse.

sorry, but moving these unproductive people off the government dole (and that's largely what "governement service" is) will boost the economy. Couple that with the openings of jobs done now by illegal aliens and we will see employment actually rise. These people will have to finally do an honest day's labor for their wages.

It was always understood that a big part of why India was so impoverished was that the educated class went into government as opposed to private sector work. India was top-heavy with bureaucrats, which under British rule was the route to a good life and it continued under home rule. So India has remained a poor third world nation despite many blessings. There was no reason why India couldn't have been another South Korea or China. It didn't because of it's emphasis on government over free markets. And that is where America has been heading.

People make things and provide actual serviced. Government merely confiscates and moves stuff around, skimming off the cream in the process. Losing these jobs might appear tough at first but everyone will be better off in the end.

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