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Monday, May 05, 2025

Nearly half of all layoffs so far in 2025 have been driven by cuts related to the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) efforts ...

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Illegal firings to intentionally crash the stock market. So Trump can profit by shorting stocks at the expense of everyone else.

#1 | Posted by censored at 2025-05-05 02:48 PM | Reply

"But I didn't vote for this."

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-05 02:50 PM | Reply

Well duh - we voted for this. The federal government needs to be slashed and the lazy, unproductive workers let go. On top of this, the spending on things like USAID and the Department of Education are actually either fraudulent or actually accomplish the opposite of their charter - such as the DOE destroying public schools. Here is a little hint for you liberal turds, you cannot grow the size of government indefinitely.

#3 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-05 06:41 PM | Reply

"The federal government needs to be slashed and the lazy, unproductive workers let go."

Curious how many government workers you know, to be calling so many of them lazy.
Or can you tell they're lazy just by looking at the color of their skin?

I was a Temp for the Federal Government phone banking for FEMA after one of the big California earthquakes. Nobody was lazy. I had to get my ass downtown to the conference room in the Marriott in sub-zero DC weather every day. The Marriott had hot spiced cider which I helped myself to every morning. That was back before the Green Line connector and you had to wait on the windy platform to switch trains.

Maybe government workers are as lazy as you are in your own country.

But here in America, people usually tend to work pretty hard at what they do, and don't mind putting in the hours if they think they're getting things done.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-05 06:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Curious how many government workers you know, to be calling so many of them lazy.
#4 | Posted by snoofy"

I know many of them and not a single thing would change if their jobs were eliminated. You dipshits said the same thing when Musk gutted the useless people at Twitter - how the site would collapse, etc as these people were necessary and doing hard work. Here is a little secret for you - there is not a single organization in the world with over 500 people that could not cut 10% of its workforce and see no drop in productivity. It doesn't matter if you are talking Nvidia, Apple or the Federal government. The problem is just way more severe in government where the number is probably 30-40% vs. 10% in the private sector.

#5 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-05 07:27 PM | Reply

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