Maybe the government should pass a guaranteed jobs bill, and offer it also to out of work/transitioning/freelance devs to rewrite some of their out-dated system

Maybe the government should pass a guaranteed jobs bill, and offer it also to out of work/transitioning/freelance devs to rewrite some of their out-dated systems/code. It can take 3-10 months to find a job, if you lose a software job, imagine if the next day you just auto-start working on government projects maybe at a 20% reduction of your normal salary until you find a real job to replace the one you lost..