Some 75,000 federal employees have accepted the Trump administration’s voluntary buyout offer and the Trump administration is ramping up the firings of various groups of federal workers as well, from ineffective inspectors general to partisan U.S. Attorneys, and possibly whole wasteful agencies whenever the case can be made and its legality confirmed.
The American Left is horrified by this sudden activity. Normally, it’s only Democrat presidents who move this quickly, and of course, they move in the opposite direction. This wasn’t expected; they thought they could keep President Trump on his heels, stymied from most of the actions that he was elected to do, as in his first term.
One of the more interesting reactions is the shedding of tears over government workers losing their jobs. The Left’s dutiful shills in the media are writing articles about the personal trauma suffered by these government employees, now suddenly jobless and faced with the challenges of paying for their children’s expensive private schools, their expensive electric cars, their expensive Washington D.C. area homes.
How many such articles, how many such angry speeches and demonstrations, how many compassionate Facebook memes did we see from the Left when the Biden-Harris regime fired the people already under government contracts, working on building the wall on the Mexican border? How many did we see when the Biden-Harris regime fired everyone working on the Keystone Pipeline, within the first week of their miserable single term of office, directing millions of dollars of already-purchased building materials and equipment to be left on the ground to be stolen or destroyed?
It’s interesting that the Left didn’t have this kind of compassion for all the truck drivers and construction workers who were suddenly displaced by those executive orders — written by others for Joe Biden to sign — and their needs were likely at least as great, proportionately speaking. But then, the people fired by Joe Biden’s signature don’t live in the Washington Beltway, where the cost of living is among the highest in the country.
Journalists and politicians don’t live next door to the people fired by Biden or left unemployed by his policies. Their children don’t go to school with the children of truck drivers and construction workers. Their plight was completely out of sight and out of mind. The Biden-Harris regime gleefully fired them all — because the dutiful observance of the climate cult and the love of open borders are key elements of their philosophy, and that trumps the human lives affected by their executive orders.
There are therefore both similarities and important differences between the Biden-Harris cases and the Trump-Vance cases.
Note that these Biden-Harris examples were of people working on specific government projects that were designed to help the private sector. Once the pipeline is built, once the border wall is finished, the private sector is safer, freer to prosper than it was before.
The border wall would have reduced illegal competition for private sector jobs, along with the gangland crime that infests our cities, and the welfare state burden on The Tales of Little Pavel), his political satires on the Biden-Harris years (Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes I, II, and III), and his most recent collection of public policy essays, Current Events and the Issues of Our Age, all available in eBook or paperback, only on Amazon.
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