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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 05:58 PM Jan 2017

Expect Massive Federal Layoffs Except Security Jobs.

The GOP idea is to do massive layoffs in all non critical jobs particularly in domestic, environment and parks. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, DOL, EPA and VA will be trimmed as well. Veteran's services will be privatized and vouchered. I will bet the plan is to privatize almost all of our federal departments with wages reduced significantly by up to 40%. There will also be an effort to abolish the Civil Service System. I also expect the old "Reagan devolution" of sending most work to the states and a lot to corporations.

I will bet that the GOP will take down 50% of the federal authority over time. Of course, Congress will be protected. I am afraid the nation will be in shock to see that they will have a skeleton government except for DOD and Homeland. We will be well on our way to a police state thanks to Republicans.

I really hope I am wrong but after what they have done to my old Department of Labor after all these years I am hardly optimistic. I believe what I have just said based on listening to their bullshit since 1981. Yes we have a revolution from my point of view. It will be dissolving government.

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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
2. What I Have Said I Am Afraid Of. They Don't Care If People Die In The Streets.
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 06:03 PM
Jan 2017

I have been watching these bastards since 1981. And this country will be utterly destroyed in the end. I am sorry to say this but the GOP will use the 2nd amendment against Americans like they have allowed with blacks.

KPN

(15,585 posts)
6. Exactly. In fact, I would take it one step further ...
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 06:42 PM
Jan 2017

they want people to die in the streets. Accomplishing that will remove the major impediment to their fascist, authoritarian agenda -- other people.

I admit this notion seems nakedly paranoid and irrational. At the same time, I seriously believe this is the only possible outcome of their ideological philosophy which -- boiled down to its base -- is nothing more than survival of the fittest. And they, at their inner-most core, understand and accept that. Think about it, if lower income people die off by whatever means, there will ultimately be no need for "entitlement" programs.

Now I'm really going to go paranoid and say that it has occurred to me that the mad, disjointed rush to "govern" we are witnessing in the first few days of President Gaslight's administration might actually be meant stir up our revolt?

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
7. Trump Voters Attitudes Remind Me Of A Star Trek Episode.
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 06:47 PM
Jan 2017

I remember seeing an old Star Trek episode where these colonist got infected by a foreign bug. They became deranged and destroyed themselves. Then the Enterprise comes along to investigate. They get infected and have to fight to survive the bug before the ship is destroyed.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
3. Starving the Beast
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 06:10 PM
Jan 2017

The Kristo-Trumplican True-Believer Cohort of Comrades see the USA and our government as some kind of evil beast, and they have a deliberate plan to systematically weaken and kill it.

It's not just our public schools and universities they are starving and weakening, but rather it is the whole of our commonwealth built through the good intentions and the labor of generation upon generation of Americans of all backgrounds, faiths, and a full range of capacities for love and nobility. This is what they are out to anihilate.

C_U_L8R

(44,889 posts)
4. Starve the beast then...
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 06:22 PM
Jan 2017

Cull the herd. Just wait until people start popping off without health insurance. It'll be a freakin horror movie and it will be too late. This is the stuff of Republican dreams.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
5. Trump will gut the government
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 06:25 PM
Jan 2017

I thought everyone was clear on that?

Gonna be a lot of sad government workers that voted for Trump real soon.

KPN

(15,585 posts)
10. Scary stuff -- all of it.
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 06:53 PM
Jan 2017

Everything I read in the posts above this is real. To paraphrase Joseph Heller: Just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean you shouldn't be.

We are being put on notice daily. How will we react? And in response, how will they react?

An acquaintance I was chatting with yesterday actually said to me: This stuff's bullshit. I'm getting old. At this point in my life, I'm actually willing to put my life on the line for what is right. --- I was surprised by his statement at first, but then admitted that I actually feel the same way. I am 65. Push come to shove ...

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
11. Grover Norquist
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 06:55 PM
Jan 2017

"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."

RazzleCat

(732 posts)
13. I know that some in the repubican party have wanted this but....
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 07:26 PM
Jan 2017

if you cause a massive depression, then you too loose money. Think this through. Depression = less value in the market, fewer contracts, less taxes (again fewer contracts). Even if your plan is to make money off of government contracts, less tax fewer/smaller contracts. Compare to a healthy middle class, higher value in stocks, more taxes, so more contacts to make that money on.

anneboleyn

(5,611 posts)
14. Because fed jobs aren't jobs! Trump, the "jobs" president, plans to put thousands out of work
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 07:34 PM
Jan 2017

yet none of his voters seem to understand that federal jobs are jobs and that thousands out of work will mean more competition in the work force and impact on trumper's job numbers.

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