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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLaid off gov workers are really screwed. I feel awful for them.
- Lost their jobs
- Retirement accounts destroyed
- Entering a glutted job market, possible recession.
Cruel beyond words.

Meowmee
(8,728 posts)Why are their retirement accounts destroyed, do they lose all of that when fired etc? I hope someone can help them.
jmbar2
(6,818 posts)Meowmee
(8,728 posts)and they maybe transferred to safer federal money market etc. already or can still do that.
jmbar2
(6,818 posts)VMA131Marine
(4,958 posts)Even adding military pay and benefits only brings it up to about 7%. 3% of the budget is $180 Billion
All these firings aren’t really saving us anything and the layoffs at IRS will likely reduce tax collections by a few hundred billion dollars up to as much as $500 Billion. Musk and Trump are actually costing us money.
Scrivener7
(55,494 posts)AnnaLee
(1,260 posts)Every time they intellectualize about the latest abstraction, I start screaming at the TV - how would you like to be one of those people losing, FOR NO REASON AT ALL, their jobs, carriers and everything they worked years to achieve . (all caps for the loudest part)
I find trashed workers, especially non-political civil servants, to be a symbol of a declining democracy. I am breathless because I am so upset that most of the media reports are more worried about WallStreet than about family consequences including family lost (stolen if you ask me) wealth.
Meowmee
(8,728 posts)I just start screaming most of the time at the lunacy of the reporting.
CanonRay
(15,207 posts)RockRaven
(17,166 posts)Find Out without any sympathy.