I generally agree with the content of what you wrote. Teachers are generally excellent, in the job for the right reasons, and willing to go beyond their job description for students who show promise or who the system is failing. When Leander ISD was denying our kids special-ed services to comply with TEA's caps on the number of students receiving special ed, their teachers went far beyond what they were required to do to help our kids as much as they could. It was the policies from the TEA and implementation under the direction of the school district's administration that failed us. They are not in it for the right reasons.
Hey, I hope you and your family find your place to be yourselves without fear or infringement, but I find this really fascinating. You feel safer around cartels than MAGA? I mean, wouldn't there also be a set of rules for staying safe in Trump's America?
There's a rural, working-class white-guy zeitgeist going on in entertainment. It's not inherently MAGA, but it does sell well to people who don't see 21st century progress as worth a damn, and that's a big overlap with MAGA. Taylor Sheridan is seen as having his finger on this pulse, much like Puff Daddy was seen as having his finger on the pulse of urban black culture. I don't care, fucking entertain me as the world burns.
I wonder how these pro-corporate, anti-government folks would react if the government shut down a business the moment it finds any evidence that a regulation had been violated?
Boeing cut corners bringing the 757 max? Several hundred people died? Sayonara, bitches. You are no longer allowed to exist and thoughts and prayers to your employees.
Somehow I don't think there would be the same zeal...
While I totally agree, I don’t think Musk or Trump are the kind that explain themselves, provide transparency or feel the need to answer to anyone. There is a reason the founding fathers wanted a system of checks and balances. Because they were leaving a monarchy where power was consolidated into a single individual that answered to only themselves and whatever conscience they possessed.
I appreciate the data link. Thanks. Maybe adding a million out of work federal employees to the steady state of terminated employees in a year will be a blip for those employees and everyone else? Regardless, we will see soon enough.
I was going by largest layoffs in the private sector for a single employer in a single year:
IBM: Currently, the all-time record for the largest corporate job cut belongs to tech company IBM, which laid off 60,000 people in 1993, the same year it posted an $8 billion loss.
Sears: Sears, Roebuck & Co. cut 50,000 jobs and closed 113 stores in 1993.
Citigroup cut 50,000 jobs amid the 2008 financial crisis.
I have no problem with the TSA going away. Are they being targeted by DOGE?
Most disagreements here seem to be over how federal government downsizing is carried out. I would like to see it done in a controlled and responsible fashion with A) empathy for people that are only guilty of accepting a job and doing what was asked of them in civil service and B) an eye on effects to the broader economy, jobs market and reliability of necessary government services.
Those concerns seem to be an afterthought at best.
I mean, for every $100 I made, the state was charged $150, so Utah was getting charged 150% of what I cost Thoughtworks. All of our contracts were for time and materials.
I honestly have no problem with the idea that the federal government needs a good trimming. It would be nice if this could be done in a throttled fashion, say over a couple years to "flatten the curve" of joblessness and all of its known and unknown effects and to provide for the ability to pause and pivot if/when damaging effects arise, but that runs into midterms. I imagine that is why this has been outsourced to our unelected modern-day Howard Hughes to execute. He need only answer to the President, not voters. The elected politicians can take credit for the good and avoid blame for the bad.