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Something I haven't seen talked about is the potential threat to government recruiting the layoffs and shutdown represent. My historical impression was that go
by everforward 1y ago
Something I haven't seen talked about is the potential threat to government recruiting the layoffs and shutdown represent.
My historical impression was that government jobs didn't pay the best and came with a lot of red tape, but also came with a pension and a lot of stability.
From the outside, the stability looks like it's gone. I've got a buddy that works as a firefighter for the army and he's coming up on a second missed paycheck (shutdown hit right before checks went out). He's lucky to have inherited a house and to not have kids, but I don't know what the folks with a mortgage and several kids are doing to make ends meet. Allegedly they won't even get backpay right when the government opens, it'll come during their next pay period so even if they opened up right now he still wouldn't have any money coming in for a couple weeks or more.
- ASalazarMX 1y agoThe fact that Trump is remodeling the White House to get a quarter billion ballroom, amidst this weeks-long shutdown, is surreal. There is no attempt at being discrete anymore in this administration. I can't understand why almost half of USA voted to have Trump again.
- lesuorac 1y agoBecause Trump's opponent didn't even win their own primary? It should be incredibly telling that in an era where the incumbents suffered roughly 10 percentage points decrease in polling world wide that Trump won by ~1 percent that he's actually really not liked. It's just nobody liked his opponent.
- ASalazarMX 1y agoWhat happens if a majority doesn't vote? In my country it became such a huge problem that no one voted because the elections were a sham, and it spurred structural reforms. Abstaining is always an option if you don't like either choice.