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'None of this is about saving money': Fury over Trump-Musk purge of federal workers

www.commondreams.org 'None of This Is About Saving Money': Fury Over Trump-Musk Purge of Federal Workers | Common Dreams

The "mass firing spree," said one union leader, is "about gutting the federal government, silencing workers, and forcing agencies into submission to a radical agenda that prioritizes cronyism over competence."

Summary

The Trump administration, led by Elon Musk, has escalated its mass firing of federal workers, dismissing thousands across multiple agencies.

Union leaders condemn the purge as a politically motivated power grab rather than a cost-saving measure.

Many workers received no notice or due process, while chaotic termination notices deepened confusion.

Critics link the firings to Project 2025’s goal of dismantling government oversight, warning it will lead to corruption and benefit the wealthy.

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Of course it's not. If it was, "DOGE" would include the enormous defense budget in its targets. They're only targeting comparatively small social programs, because they're ideologically driven not "efficiency" driven

It's about undermining all of us poors influence and unchecked power so we can be billionaire's slaves

Never was...
This is a coup...
- A very stupid but somewhat effective coup
  
  Somewhat effective? How much more effective you want it to be?

Trump ballooned the Federal debt by $8 trillion in his last term.
- Those were rookie numbers. This time round he's gonna destroy the credit rating, bankrupt the state, and sell off the whole country to corporations, piece by piece.
  
  A) yes I believe you say truth B) how would trump make money by destroying the credit rankings? Don’t rich bank people make money when they can effectively evaluate risks?

Right wing economics thinks that the free market solves everything, and that government just gets in the way and prevents the market from solving everything. That's why they want to dismantle the government, they think it will lead to glorious prosperity. You can see this when Musk says the future it's going to be amazing and various other things like that from many people. Now there are a lot of other things going on, but that's basically the origin. To them if it makes profit, then it is good in every sense by definition. And they think if it doesn't make profit, then it is bad in every sense, again by definition. The more profit it makes, the more good it is.
- And never mind those pesky externalities; those are for the poors to suffer.
  
  To them you're only poor if you didn't pull yourself up by your bootstraps, again because profit good by definition. If you are poor, then you are bad by definition.

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