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Tens of thousands of people are now out of work, with more to join them soon. The job market is already tight. That is going to have ripple effects throughout c
by alaithea 2y ago
Tens of thousands of people are now out of work, with more to join them soon. The job market is already tight. That is going to have ripple effects throughout communities all over the country. We will probably see an uptick in housing foreclosures. At the same time, grant money for community support programs has been turned off, so these folks will have a harder time getting help.
Farmers who produced food that was sent abroad by USAID are not getting paid, and will have stock piling up that they don't have a buyer for.
Scientific and health agencies have been muzzled during a time when we are fighting bird flu (millions of flocks dying), there has been human transmission and there is a high risk of another pandemic (bird flu or anything else) coming along. People will die who wouldn't otherwise have to.
The agency which protects Americans from predatory bank fees has been shuttered, so we can expect our banking (like $35 late fees) to get more expensive.
I could go on and on, but our country is not Twitter; it's not even comparable, on almost any level.
- drstewart 2y ago> I could go on and on Could you go on and on with any actual examples since all of your statements were riddled with "probablies" and "mights" and "wills"?
- thunderfork 2y ago[dead]
- alaithea 2y agoAll my statements started with a concrete fact, all of which are easily found in current news articles. Perhaps you should go do some reading.
- drstewart 2y agoMaybe the sky will fall too!
- thunderfork 2y ago[dead]
- jodrellblank 2y agohttps://old.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/ https://old.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/ has examples. So does https://old.reddit.com/r/Project2025Award/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Project2025Award/
- drstewart 2y agolol right
- jodrellblank 2y agosorry, you wanted people to spoon-feed you examples in reply to your low-effort low quality dismissals? "If we let go of this it will fall" "oh yeah 'will' I want real examples of things falling" "here are examples of things really falling" "lol right"
- silisili 2y agoNot sure how true it is, but a few housing focused accounts I follow(that are admittedly more doom and gloom) are claiming house prices in and around DC are taking a beating as a result. It makes logical sense, but it's not something I would have immediately connected.
- flutas 2y ago> Tens of thousands of people are now out of work, with more to join them soon. ...and? This is such a common thing in tech we have entire websites built around it to track the layoffs.[0] In fact, using that site you can see in February (only 20 days so far) we've had 10,950 tech workers laid off. Expanding it further, in 2024 alone there were over 152,000 tech workers laid off. 2023? Only a mere 264,000 layoffs. Where is the outrage and emotional blackmail over this for the lowly tech worker, yet we're supposed to bend over and take it while saying this is a bad thing for government workers? Personally, I think they're just finally experiencing the America they run and they don't like it when it bites them like it bites the average American, and I have to assume that's why it seemingly has such high approval ratings among independent voters.[1] [0]: https://layoffs.fyi/ https://layoffs.fyi/ [1]: https://www.axios.com/2025/02/14/arizona-voters-trump-elon-musk-executive-orders https://www.axios.com/2025/02/14/arizona-voters-trump-elon-m...
- jarsin 2y agoExactly! Do they not realize they all sat around (poorly) administrating systems like h1b that have caused millions of us to be laid off with no notice or reason. I can't imagine crying on linkedin like some of these .gov workers showing up in my feed. I would never be hired again.
- hooverd 2y agoYou do realize it's your bosses that hate you and want to replace you and not random civil servants?
- nobankai 2y agoI can't imagine a talented employee crying to HN about how they can't compete with the ESL labor pool. What's the matter? The market feeling a little too free for your tastes?
- hooverd 2y agoI feel bad for tech workers they were laid off. And civil servants. It's the same people orchestrating both!
- logicalmind 2y agoTo add to your list, Federal Spending represents 23% of GDP. If you cut Federal Spending you cut GDP. And if you take just a sliver of any of that spending and think about it critically, you can imagine the ripple effects it will cause. Cutting funding for biotech results in loss of jobs and loss of patent filing. Loss of patent filing means loss of people needed for filing patents. On and on. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out (some pun intended).
- fallingknife 2y agoNot really since their plan is to cut taxes too. It shifts spending to individuals rather than cutting GDP, though there are always costs associated with such a transition.
- logicalmind 2y agoThose tax cuts will heavily favor the wealthy. So I guess it depends on your belief in whether trickle down economics works. Additionally, the Federal Government is the largest employer in the country. If you both lay off a significant portion of that workforce and cut things like unemployment and other social programs, you are going to have significant increase in unemployment unless there is somehow new jobs for everyone. Add inflation to the mix due to tariffs and a perfect storm of economic despair is on the horizon.