75,000 government workers accepted a buyout.
200,000 “probationary” workers were fired.
That’s going to have an impact.
Governments are people, my friend [OptimistiCallie] “No matter where you sit on the political spectrum, your brain’s little alarm bells should be going off at all of these headlines.
Too often, we think of the federal government as this abstract concept of paper-pushing middle men ripe for budget cuts and Office Space memes.
But governments are people, my friend.
And we may soon find out the hard way that people drive the U.S. economy.”