These people mostly already and effectively stopped working... The people I know that took this offer were told to stop showing up for work back in March-ish time frame. I see nothing in the article to suggest a sudden wave of new people taking up this offer -- as far as I can tell, the only thing that's about to change from what this article says is that our unemployment numbers will start to reflect it if those federal workers did not find new employment.
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#32It’s a terrifying experiment in hollowing out the civil service. At some point a critical mass of Federal workers may be lost which brings the entire machinery of the Federal Government to a standstill. It’s also not clear how to recover from something like this.
> It’s also not clear how to recover from something like this.
You pretty much have to double spend to get out. Same way ICE is handling recruitment shortfalls.
Government jobs have never had great salaries (but decent benefits) vs the private sector. You need to make those jobs actually competitive.
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#33It’s a terrifying experiment in hollowing out the civil service. At some point a critical mass of Federal workers may be lost which brings the entire machinery of the Federal Government to a standstill. It’s also not clear how to recover from something like this.
That's their entire strategy. Shrink government causing government to become ineffective, which provides evidence that government should shrink even more.
AKA "The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you noticed ICE's budget lately?
ICE doesn’t do law enforcement against citizens. It does affect citizens tangentially but not directly. ICE will not come after citizens for crimes. That would be regular local police, state police or FBI/ATF, etc. ICE is immigration enforcement. Some people may not like that especially illegal residents but it would be a poor way to affect citizens like fascists or communists did.
What does the national guard do against citizens?
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you noticed ICE's budget lately?
ICE doesn’t do law enforcement against citizens. It does affect citizens tangentially but not directly. ICE will not come after citizens for crimes. That would be regular local police, state police or FBI/ATF, etc. ICE is immigration enforcement. Some people may not like that especially illegal residents but it would be a poor way to affect citizens like fascists or communists did.
ICE will (and already are to an extent) come after anyone who looks like trouble. If they want to superficially follow the law, they beat people up and release them after 23 hours after "discovering" the person is a citizen. Then, repeat as many times as necessary.
Since nobody actually knows who ICE is, it can devolve pretty easily from there. The most pedestrian would be protection money to avoid detention, from citizens and non-citizens, it doesn't matter.
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#36Resignation? Doesn't that imply that they are choosing to leave? > The resignations—which come as part of a program drawn up by President Donald Trump at the start of his second administration—will happen on Tuesday as Congress is facing a deadline on the same day to authorize more funding or risk a government shutdown. > If there is no deal, the White House has ordered federal agencies to make plans for the large-sc…
I believe the 100k are those that took the "deferred resignation program" at the beginning of the year. They have been getting paid to not bother showing up to work all this time, but are finally coming up on the date where they will all officially resign. Those people are choosing to leave.
Took? Or got placed on?
Genuine question, because I don't know the answer. Was it actually voluntary at the time?
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No. the administrative state is negligible budget expense in the grand scheme of government payments. Interest payments, entitlements, defense budgets etc are orders of magnitude more. Trump is just using the Project 2025 playbook to screw over the American people and the USA and line his pockets while he can. The idiots over at the heritage foundation are foaming at the mouth they're so happy now.
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#38It’s a terrifying experiment in hollowing out the civil service. At some point a critical mass of Federal workers may be lost which brings the entire machinery of the Federal Government to a standstill. It’s also not clear how to recover from something like this.
That's the intention of this administration. Destroy any service that the government could provide until people can genuinely think the government is useless. Then the people currently in power and their cronies will come out of the woodwork "saving" the country with their private companies and interests. Competing with an empty shell of a government is the easiest way.
As a side effect, if they're to lose the next election they leave a corpse on the doorstep of the next administration. That makes it so much easier to pass on the blame.
Aligns perfectly with these people's views that a country is best led like a company not like a democracy. The realistic outcome will be formally (rather than the informal one as until now) corpocracy.
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#39It’s a terrifying experiment in hollowing out the civil service. At some point a critical mass of Federal workers may be lost which brings the entire machinery of the Federal Government to a standstill. It’s also not clear how to recover from something like this.
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Enjoy being on hold indefinitely with any government agency, waiting in longer lines, and emails going unanswered.