Bless their hearts
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 20:57 last edited by
With a little modification of that old saw about taxes to "don't fire you, don't fire me, just fire that guy behind the tree."
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 21:00 last edited by
Well, I knowingly support the tribe that seems dead set against remote work.
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 21:01 last edited by jon-nyc
What does that have to do with this? These guys were let go because they were probationary despite their decade+ of experience.
VA hospitals are all over the country. USDA employees are everywhere there are plants to inspect.
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What does that have to do with this? These guys were let go because they were probationary despite their decade+ of experience.
VA hospitals are all over the country. USDA employees are everywhere there are plants to inspect.
wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 21:15 last edited by@jon-nyc I'm sure you intended a granular point that my post has nothing to do with. Please pardon me if I don't work too hard to discover the specifics of that granular point. My point is that sometimes, people support a political side that in certain specific ways might work directly against them.
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 21:18 last edited by
Ah, ok fair enough.
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 21:18 last edited by jon-nyc
The second guy - from the VA. If you read the whole article he was set to retire in 2027 and had filed the paperwork. Now he’s out before he put in his 20.
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 21:31 last edited by
When you sit this many people in the street, you're going to have some sad stories.
There's no way around it.
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 21:34 last edited by jon-nyc
But maybe publicizing a few will tamper down the glee with which the maga right has greeted these individual job losses. At the end of the day all these people did was apply for a decent job.
Agreeing with the cuts is one thing, celebrating the tragedies the individuals are going through (let me know if you’d like receipts, but I’m sure everyone here has seen it) quite another.
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 21:42 last edited by
Somebody has do it. You know it. I know it. It's not gonna be pretty and it's going to hurt.
Yet, if we do nothing, you'll be the first to point fingers.
Time to cut the baby in half. Make a decision.
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 21:59 last edited by
Every dollar we cut is a dollar that doesn’t go to increase the debt, and we have a long, long way to go.
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Every dollar we cut is a dollar that doesn’t go to increase the debt, and we have a long, long way to go.
wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 22:23 last edited by@Mik said in Bless their hearts:
Every dollar we cut is a dollar that doesn’t go to increase the debt, and we have a long, long way to go.
Absolutely.
We got here through massive political pandering and MMT.
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 22:31 last edited by
MMT never made it out of a third tier economics program in New England.
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 22:33 last edited by jon-nyc
It’s a little easier to point to the GOP’s deliberate decision to take us off our debt reduction glide path 24 years ago with forever wars and tax cuts.
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 22:35 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in Bless their hearts:
MMT never made it out of a third tier economics program in New England.
Well, sure seems like we've been printing money out of thin air to satisfy debt.
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It’s a little easier to point to the GOP’s deliberate decision to take us off our debt reduction glide path 24 years ago with forever wars and tax cuts.
wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 22:37 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Bless their hearts:
It’s a little easier to point to the GOP’s deliberate decision to take us off our debt reduction glide path 24 years ago with forever wars and tax cuts.
You can piss in your pants, too, if you want a warm , fuzzy feeling. Doesn't pay off a damn thing.
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 22:39 last edited by
Look at that lovely trajectory Bill and Newt handed your boy W.
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 22:46 last edited by
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 23:32 last edited by
Let's not leave out the small, insignificant fact that the United States was the only major economy left unscathed by WW2.
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wrote on 17 Feb 2025, 00:22 last edited by
Oh no. They cut out 1700 healthy cells when removing this giant bloated tumor from my prostate…
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wrote on 17 Feb 2025, 00:24 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in Bless their hearts:
Look at that lovely trajectory Bill and Newt handed your boy W.
Really? And look at what happened 2009-2017…
