Not Many Americans Are Going to Tolerate What These Federal Workers Had to Say Last Night.. Matt Ves

[mystery-ak]

Not Many Americans Are Going to Tolerate What These Federal Workers Had to Say Last Night
Matt Vespa
~3 minutes

CBS News was a dumpster fire on Sunday. Face the Nation’s Margaret Brennan thought the Nazi Holocaust occurred because there was too much freedom of speech and the press in Germany. Then, 60 Minutes decided to produce a segment about Germany waging a total war on freedom of speech, taking offenders away…on a train ride. Finally, there is this pity segment on government workers who are lost after getting fired.

You’d think these people had witnessed a murder. Also, we don’t care. It’s not because they’re government workers, though I’m also numb to that aspect—anything that sets DC on fire is fine by me. But tens of millions of other workers have endured these hardships and challenges many times over. It’s this ‘we’re special’ nonsense that the liberal media slaps onto these people that’s beyond tone-deaf, and no one wants to hear it.

https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1891278117915767216

As Curtis Houck at Newsbusters commented, “Americans who lost jobs in 2008-2009 and 2020 would probably like a word with these people who acted as though they're tenured college professors and thus permanent job security, no matter their performance.”

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[Smokin Joe]

Welcome to the real world, folks: 1982, 1986, 1993, 2009, 2015, 2020, 2023 for the 'big ones' not counting minor or temporary jobs, or ones I voluntarily left for greener pastures. It's what happens when your prospects are at least partly controlled by global commodity prices.

Bureaucracy is down...

[IsailedawayfromFR]

I wonder how many current federal workers had to endure the agony of losing  a job and having to find a new one with no clear new one in sight?

Gone through four during my career.

Suck it up, bureaucrats and learn what a normal American citizen endures.

[roamer_1]

#Learn_To_Code

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1891391817142137182

https://twitter.com/TexasLindsay_/status/1891467873060557029

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[Hoodat]

Losing a job is something we can all relate to.  But losing a job where you make 30% more for only doing a third of the work is not something the rest of us have ever experienced.  Good luck finding a new one.

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1891316488268824621

[Hoodat]

Elon Musk

@elonmusk
60 Mins are such liars. As the Community Note states, all employees were offered 8 months of pay & benefits.

In fairness though, Elon knows full well that no leftists is going to voluntarily give up power even when offered 8 months severance in return.

[DCPatriot]

I wonder how many current federal workers had to endure the agony of losing  a job and having to find a new one with no clear new one in sight?

Gone through four during my career.

Suck it up, bureaucrats and learn what a normal American citizen endures.

Not really possible in a region where 50% of family providers are employed by the federal government or an agency funded by same.

IMO, it's going to be a long, painful Summer...even if the signs are made with marker pens instead of professionally printed.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Not really possible in a region where 50% of family providers are employed by the federal government or an agency funded by same.

IMO, it's going to be a long, painful Summer...even if the signs are made with marker pens instead of professionally printed.

I lived in oil towns which are far more than 50% people reliant upon oil prices.

There are ups and downs and we survived.


Oh, BTW, none of these were avg house prices of a million$.  Cut that by 1/6 to 1/8 of that $ amt
Like I said, suck it up.

[DCPatriot]

I lived in oil towns which are far more than 50% people reliant upon oil prices.

There are ups and downs and we survived.


Oh, BTW, none of these were avg house prices of a million$.  Cut that by 1/6 to 1/8 of that $ amt
Like I said, suck it up.

The real estate market goes into a coma whenever the "move-up" demographic is unable to participate...no matter what  your 'local' median price home is.

Your price median is our first-time buyer.

As you say, the "oil towns" fluctuate with the ever-changing barrel price.

What's happening here in the D.C. Region is tantamount to somebody throwing arsenic into the water...which BTW, is fine by me.  Too many "active" listings and not enough qualified buyers.

Prices have gotten ridiculously overvalued and a correction is sorely needed.

When I got into the real estate business 47 years ago, 30 year fixed rates were 12-7/8% and briefly soared to 17%. 

A brick post WWII rancher in Silver Spring, Maryland went for $80K.  That same home last November was $600K

[Smokin Joe]

The real estate market goes into a coma whenever the "move-up" demographic is unable to participate...no matter what  your 'local' median price home is.

Your price median is our first-time buyer.

As you say, the "oil towns" fluctuate with the ever-changing barrel price.

What's happening here in the D.C. Region is tantamount to somebody throwing arsenic into the water...which BTW, is fine by me.  Too many "active" listings and not enough qualified buyers.

Prices have gotten ridiculously overvalued and a correction is sorely needed.

When I got into the real estate business 47 years ago, 30 year fixed rates were 12-7/8% and briefly soared to 17%. 

A brick post WWII rancher in Silver Spring, Maryland went for $80K.  That same home last November was $600K

I hear you. Bought my house in '87 for $33.5K, two years after it had sold for $90K, and the specials were paid.
Now worth multiples of that, could have sold it easily in 2013 for 10X, but where would I live then, considering this is the area I mainly work in (and Mrs. Joe would not have been happy moving far enough away from extended family to get something reasonably priced with the boom on).

People who think it is all up and no down, have either lived charmed lives, or just aren't realistic.