“Devastating” Sequester Cuts Resulted in Just One Federal Layoff - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Posted by straightlinelogic 11 years, 5 months ago to Government

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The one employee laid off was probably a Republican.

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Posted by jbrenner 11 years, 5 months ago

The only employer that hasn't had substantial layoffs in the last 50 years is the federal government. Can you say "diet"?

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  Posted by straightlinelogic 11 years, 5 months ago
  
  Can you say: "massive, all-over-the-body liposuction?"
  
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    Posted by jbrenner 11 years, 5 months ago
    
    Next contestant on America's Biggest Loser - The Federal Government?
    
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      Posted by straightlinelogic 11 years, 5 months ago
      
      We can only hope.
      
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  Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 5 months ago
  
  Never going to happen. There's too much power in the bureaucracy.
  
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    Posted by jbrenner 11 years, 5 months ago
    
    This is why Thomas Jefferson was correct when he said, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
    
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      Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 5 months ago
      
      yes, but stating such gets you noticed.
      
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        Posted by jbrenner 11 years, 5 months ago
        
        Let them come and get me. I have my escape plans prepared and am working on Galtproofing my lab.
        
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        Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 5 months ago
        
        They like to be challenged.
        
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        Posted by jbrenner 11 years, 5 months ago
        
        Bring it on. Most, if not all, Gulch citizens do not need anyone else. There are some others, like Gulch citizenry and my family and friends, that are nice to be around, but I do not NEED anyone else.
        
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        Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 5 months ago
        
        But they like to come in the darkness of night when everyone is asleep.
        
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        Posted by jbrenner 11 years, 5 months ago
        
        In my Yoda voice: Hmmm. The way of "the dark side" that is. Cue a little stormtroopers music.
        
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        Posted by straightlinelogic 11 years, 5 months ago
        
        You're never going to hide from them and you're never going to escape from them. Other than their own inevitable collapse, the only way victory is possible over these people is open rejection of their government by revolutionaries with complete moral certainty in the rightness of their cause and a clear understanding of what they want as a replacement for the present system. Galt's Gulch is a perfect haven for such people, and some of us are making our stand via literature, blogs, and other means presumably protected by the First Amendment. "You don't know what you've lost if you don't know what you had." The Golden Pinnacle is my attempt to show what we've lost. The next two books in the trilogy will show how to get it back.
        
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        Posted by jbrenner 11 years, 5 months ago
        
        Straightlinelogic, I downloaded The Golden Pinnacle from Amazon about three weeks ago and am going to read it after I'm done with Pendulum of Justice by dbhalling and khalling.
        
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        Posted by straightlinelogic 11 years, 5 months ago
        
        Enjoy Pendulum of Justice, that's a great book. The Khalings are certainly among the group of revolutionaries I was talking about. And thank you for downloading The Golden Pinnacle. Let me know what you think of it.
        
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        Posted by jbrenner 11 years, 5 months ago
        
        Will do.
        
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        Posted by jbrenner 11 years, 5 months ago
        
        I know that discussion of this movie will be lost on this audience, but wouldn't it be nice if like at the end of the movie "Merlin" that liberals would go away if we ignored them in the same way those in Camelot just walked away from Queen Mab and her magic?
        
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        Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 5 months ago
        
        like this?
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYYNWODcC...
        
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        Posted by jbrenner 11 years, 5 months ago
        
        No. I was referring to the traditional Stormtroopers music.
        
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        Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 5 months ago
        
        OK, party pooper, here you go
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzWSJG93...
        
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        Posted by jbrenner 11 years, 5 months ago
        
        Thank you for the Imperial March. I posted a new post called Enemy Identification. By acknowledging the enemy as the enemy instead of sugar coating them, I am able to be most effective in disarming them.
        
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        Posted by jbrenner 11 years, 5 months ago
        
        I have my fun, Robbie, but not when the Stormtroopers are after me as you suggested. That is serious war.
        
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        Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 5 months ago
        
        Then it's good to have some abilities that are not known.
        
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        Posted by jbrenner 11 years, 5 months ago
        
        I do have at least one such ability. But a Jedi Master or Sith Lord I am not.
        
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Posted by DougJ 11 years, 5 months ago

Privatize everything.

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  Posted by KYFHO 11 years, 5 months ago
  
  Yes. The only thing the government is supposed to provide for is the common defense so states don't have to run around protecting themselves from outside attack. And since that seems to be the one job they refuse to do, witnessed by our bleeding borders, it should all be turned over to private enterprise. And while I'm ranting, why do all the senators and reps still have to live in DC...what is wrong with skyping and teleconferencing?
  
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    Posted by DougJ 11 years, 5 months ago
    
    then they wouldn't get to play with their mistresses and in Barny Franks case the page boys.
    
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      Posted by KYFHO 11 years, 5 months ago
      
      Thanks for the smile! (too bad it's all true )
      
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Posted by richrobinson 11 years, 5 months ago

After the financial crash in 2008 I thought anyone who was making a salary from taxpayers should take a 20% cut in pay. That would have eased the burden on all of us. The sequester was called draconian. Now we see it was fair and reasonable.

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  Posted by overmanwarrior 11 years, 5 months ago
  
  It was more than reasonable!
  
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    Posted by straightlinelogic 11 years, 5 months ago
    
    It was way less than enough, though.
    
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  Posted by dbhalling 11 years, 5 months ago
  
  It would be reasonable if it cut total government spending and regulation burden to less than 10% of GDP.
  
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  Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 5 months ago
  
  Not even. Way too mild. 1 out of how many millions of federal employees? I was laid off from two different companies in the past 10 years due to the downturn. Should have been a 20% cut in personnel and those left get a 20% cut in pay.
  
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Posted by Herb7734 11 years, 5 months ago

....And you thought Godzilla was big.
Washington DC is both the wealthiest and poorest of areas in the country. It is inhabited by and elite group that supposedly represents the people of a republic. The entire district is a lie, in that they no longer represents anyone, except themselves,and the country is no longer a republic.

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Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years, 5 months ago

Even if people did lose their jobs, I'm a huge supporter of losing jobs, even apart from my support for cutting spending. I just think it's good to shake things up a bit. You don't want to get to retirement and find you got the same one year's experience 40 years in a row. It's good to shake things up. There are so many interesting things to do in the world. It's bad to be in a rut.

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Posted by freedomforall 11 years, 5 months ago

Damned lying scum.
(The politicians, of course.)

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Posted by NealS 11 years, 5 months ago

Like I've said at least a 100 times before, Democrats and Liberals can and will say anything they want to say whether it's true or just an outright lie because there are no consequences. Hopefully the majority of Americans will realize where this is taking us, and will know how to vote this November, and the coming November of 2016. Some will never get it, and will not accept any of the facts until the are personally hurt by the lies.

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Posted by Notperfect 11 years, 5 months ago

You can bet every employee that works at the Fed had no worries at all. We just print that money to pay all our members. Just like asking someone who has no money for their bills "Well we will take a check".

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Posted by starguy 11 years, 5 months ago

Drat!

I was hoping that the one federal employee that got laid off would be Dear Leader.

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  Posted by Riick 11 years, 5 months ago
  
  You must have meant to say "Fearless Leader"
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    Posted by jbrenner 11 years, 5 months ago
    
    He doesn't have much to fear, does he?
    
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      Posted by Riick 11 years, 5 months ago
      
      You, and me, and the rest of the public
      -- well, those that are awake that is.
      
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Posted by wiggys 11 years, 5 months ago

Doug you have it.

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Posted by wiggys 11 years, 5 months ago

DO YOU UNDERSTAND GIBBERISH. IF SO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THE GOVERNMENT IS DOING. I MUST UNDERSTAND GIBBERISH BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THAT THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOTHING EXCEPT WASTE TIME AND MONEY DOING WHAT EVER IT IS THEY DO!!!!

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Posted by DougJ 11 years, 5 months ago

The only way to beat them is through the battle of ideas and results.

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