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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
What is more "unemployable" than a laid off federal worker? How many have the skills and motivation to be attractive to the private sector? Would they permanently become unemployed? Not spending or paying taxes? Sounds like something the folks who want to go from federal spending level A to lower level B overnight ought to think about.
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Federal employees pay in taxes only a fraction of their costs in wages and benefits. Any serious attempt to get our deficit and debt under control will require significant cutbacks in US Government employment and careful scrutiny of the benefit programs with an eye to reduction of costs. This means ruthless priority setting and abandonment of many existing programs.