4d ago

'How Does This Help Working People?' Fury Over Trump Mass Firing of Health Workforce.

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President Trump's administration has prioritized mass firings at federal health agencies over reducing grocery prices, impacting nutrition, medical device safety, and maternal health. The firings come amid bird flu outbreaks and a rise in infectious diseases. #HealthcareCrisis #PublicHealthEmergency

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4d ago

'How Does This Help Working People?' Fury Over Trump Mass Firing of Health Workforce.

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'How Does This Help Working People?' Fury Over Trump Mass Firing of Health Workforce.

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That's the best part...it doesn't.
- It’s a feature, not a bug.

He already has your vote. He’s no longer interested in doing further business with you.

If you thought trump was ever going to help working people, you're a fucking idiot.

Answer: it doesn't.
That was never the goal. The goal is getting just enough working people riled up about bullshit and non-issues like race and identity politics, then install someone like donvict to hand the country over to oligarchs.
The peasants can go fuck themselves as far as Republicans are concerned. Nice job, SUCKERS!

Are all these people getting fired with no cause just taking it? Nobody is complaining, no strikes planed?
Or is the media just not reporting it?
- There are tons of protests going on everyday around DC. There's some planned for tomorrow at HHS HQ specifically for this concern
  
  Awesome... keep them up!
- Network news media doesn't generally report protests unless they are bloody or have at least thousands of people per location, it gets in the way of fear mongering and ad sales.
  
  yes, that was my suspicion because I keep seeing pics and anecdotes but basically nothing else
  I cannot imagine thousands fired on a wimp and nothing actually happening

He's doing The Weave but with executive actions. See, it's all confusing and random until it suddenly all comes together aaaaaand Dictatorship!

78 million voters should have asked themselves that before voting.
The common clay of the new West.
- People of the land.
- Whole lot of idiots thinking he'd be the same as Kamala on not only jobs, but things like Gaza.
  Fucking morons.

Since when did Trump care about working people?

DOGE stands for Dept of Oligarch Grift Efficiency
No need to even pretend they want to help people now that they're in power. Their goal by gutting the federal agencies is to destroy their ability to function, so they can turn the functions of government over to private enterprise owned by the oligarchs. The worse the damage caused by these firings, the faster they can say "we need to privatize" the functions of that agency. The "Efficiency" part of DOGE means "get more taxpayer money into oligarchs' pockets more efficiently"

Also, is the probation period in Murica a WHOLE YEAR??
I have never heard of anything more than 6 months and that is in shitty work places only desperate people apply to
- For the federal government it is 1 or 2 years depending on your job type.
  
  It’s still probably not legal. It’s established legal precedent that if you have a process you must follow it. I doubt they followed whatever process there may be, and am looking forward to hundreds of thousands of lawsuits
  
  Abysmal...
- For federal career civil servant jobs, yes. It's because those jobs have (until now/soon of course) protections so they can't (until now/soon) be easily fired for political reasons every time the party in power changes. That's why the probation period (when they don't have those protections yet) exists so that there's time to evaluate if someone turns out not to be fit for the job, before civil service protection kicks in.
  Of course the first thing trump did was decree the "Schedule F" tactic (see Project 2025), which will remove those protections from all federal jobs so anyone can be easily fired, but until that is fully in effect, they're going ahead with the low-hanging fruit and firing all the people who don't have the protections--those still on probation, which firings can't really be legally challenged like "Schedule F".
  
  I don't know if these jobs are super rewarding and pay super well but I would not take a job with a 2 year probation period. I guess I've had the luxury not to need to.
  The thought that anyone would dedicate 2 full years of their lives to a job and could be fired literally for no reason at all seems just cruel to me.

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