re: I don’t feel sorry for Fed employees losing their jobs

President Trump is trying to get the numbers close to the amount of government employees in 2019. Biden continued to hire government employees to help the employment numbers. Just padded the payroll!

OP joins the long list of mongoloids taking joy in this, creating ill will that will manifest as millions of additional Dem votes in 2026.

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A. They forget about all the soldiers & fed employees who were fired for refusing the covid Vax.

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This is one hell of a dumbass reason. "Something bad happened to them so I don't care if it happens to you!" Congrats on being in the 3rd grade. Maybe mommy will get you an ice cream cake for your birthday.

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B. Everyone else in the private sector worries about getting fired all the time. It’s nothing new to us. My arse hole clinches every year during our budget review

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Go look at all the grant and contract positions in the federal workforce and get back to us.

These exercises in self-righteousness should be a sight to behold in about 18 months. "I wished evil on all those federal workers, how did we lose all those seats in midterms? I can't figure it out."

You asshats act like the random govt worker is sitting in an office plotting how to ruin your lives. At least 95% of them are no different than you, just looking for a way to pay the bills and take care of their families. Govt must be downsized, but this current approach is not the proper way to do it with the people that played no role in creating this mess, and it's going to cost a lot at the ballot box. I'm amazed every day at how myopic and stupid you guys are on this issue. You can't even see this through the lens of pragmatism.

Fed workforce is 10M people. Do the math. Put a target on the backs of 10M people, take a guess how they're going to vote.

Federal Times

The Census estimates there were roughly 122 million active U.S. voters in 2022, of which the federal workforce represents a small fraction: about 2.2 million. But counting millions more retirees, service members, sympathetic family and friends, and state and local government workers, the total government workforce has the potential to be a significant voter base,

It's far more than 2.2M. This is just looking at non-DoD GS positions. I wonder what friends and family members might do at the ballot box if they see people's lives getting destroyed and a bunch of Republicans cheering for joy.

About 43% of respondents said they planned to vote Democrat this year compared to 33% Republican and 16% independent.

Half said they believed the Democratic party best represented the interests of the federal workforce, whereas 22% said the GOP was a better representative. Another 20% said neither were suitable, and 5% said independent third-party candidates were more in line with employees’ interests.
About half lean Republican or Independent. What do you think their wallets and family obligations will tell them to do in 18 months? You think you're the only ones that got affected by inflation? Gov employees also had to deal with it. I wonder how many of them are fully prepared to be jobless.

Still, almost every employee interviewed by Federal Times echoed the same message: they work on behalf of the American people, and they just want to be given the tools to do that.
Wow, so much evil. Those GS-5s in the mail room are coming to get you.

I wonder what Democrats will promise in these midterms - likely a freeze to all firing actions, back pay and re-hiring of everyone fired, plus some sort of bonus for their hardship. We all know Democrats have no issues spending money. They'll raise the debt limit and give us a $10T federal budget without blinking. And they'll get enough RINO votes to make things veto proof if they clean up in the midterms. Of course, non of you men of genius bother to think about this.

Let's assume that survey is wildly off base and the fed workforce is 70% Dem already. That's a potential of 3M people that are not Dem, that will be strongly compelled to vote Dem. You think 3M votes can swing enough seats to give Dems control of Congress? Yes, it absolutely can. Trump lost in 2020 by less than 50k votes, total, across a few different states. It will only take a 1000 or so in some of these House races to swing them red to blue. If Trump doesn't have the economy roaring with tons of added jobs, where are these federal employees supposed to go? You can rest assured that all 10M of them are thinking about that every day.

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Congress has not appropriated any money for any sort of severance. They’re about to be screwed.

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Who in Congress would vote against it?

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Well, I guess that depends which side you're on.

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Now do military.

Federal employees do not have tenure. You know, like teachers.

Federal contracts also give jobs and money to Americans; cut the fat; stop with the behind the back contracts that give millions to people behind the back door like bureaucrats!

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I don’t feel sorry for Fed employees losing their jobs

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Trump has a limited time to make huge changes.
Time constraints will mitigate meticulousness.
Mistakes will be made.
That's the lay-of-the-land; it's a 100 days window of opportunity.

Trump tried to reorganize/restructure the Executive Branch in his first term only to be hamstrung by internal "resistance" among "nonpolitical" appointees. He is not one to make the same mistake twice. So this go-round he's clearing house. Even if it means tossing out some good with the bad.

He's given Musk carte blanche, removed the guardrails, and said "you only have 'this much" time." Musk in turn, recommends axing entire divisions. 20%, 30%, 50% or more of those groups might actually be workers who would do their best to comply with Trump directives, and who never did or never would "resist." But there is not time for reconsideration. DOGE recommendations are nearly universally being accepted. Good folks are getting tossed aside with them, as the baby with the bathwater.

Now you're right about private sector layoffs and prior CV19-vax dismissals. So there's a sense of schadenfreude, and franky there are much worse empathy-killing government episodes.

Incidents like the Andrew Weissmann - Arthur Andersen Affair alone ripped away livelihoods of nearly 30,000 good, hard-working, career professionals. Far from being castigated, Weissmann was elevated to hero status in DC circles over that legal atrocity. There were the attempts to ruin lives of hundreds of nonviolent J6ers. There were more recent attacks on parents, parishioners, and private religious organizations. Not one tear was shed nor one F given by the government about any of that.

So I get the overarching lack of sympathy.

But some of these Federal employees whom you "don’t feel sorry for" are inevitably going to be proven good folks. Review will show them to be folks who never sowed the wind, but were nonetheless swept away with the whirlwind -- collateral damage. I feel sorry for them, just as I did the thousands of brilliant AA accountants SlimeballWeissman screwed over. I feel very sorry for the peaceful J6ers who got caught up in a historical moment only to become subject of 21st Century Salem Witch Trials. So too do I feel for a ton of government workers, good folks, who are going to suffer punishment for others' sins.

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About 43% of respondents said they planned to vote Democrat this year compared to 33% Republican and 16% independent.

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Wow, only 43% of federal employees say they will vote dem, that is down SIGNIFICANTLY, Trump is even making headway with fed employees.

Get out of the weeds Barron, you and your cronies always voted dem so no votes lost. However for millions of Americans who want the graft to stop, there will be a net gain of millions, millions, maybe even billions if they keep mail in balloting.

Fire 10% every year in every department. You are actually doing them a favor. The worst employee hates what he/she is doing. I guarantee it.