Trump in a stunning manner announced that he was offering 2M federal employees severance for leaving their employment in the federal government in several departments yesterday.
As a conservative at 62, I never dreamed that the federal government could EVER get smaller in my lifetime, and now, it looks like it might be a reality. The very nature of government is to grow and become more intrusive, and so far, that has been proven.
If Trump can do this, it may be the strike that shows everyone (including non-supporters) that like everything else in life, the federal government can also out-grow its environment.
However, what I really want to focus on is the entitled attitude that these employees are sacrosanct. I have always found this assumption that there is a class of people (who happen to work for us) that are above things that we have faced our whole life.
Getting laid off or fired (for cause or not), not having medical insurance, not having an income, etc. is a part of everyone who has ever worked in the “private sector”. By the way, the private sector is always talked about like it’s a negative thing. Let me make this clear: there are two classes of people in the US: people who work for the government, and everyone else that gets to fund the first group I mentioned.