>“Let’s do some math:

Gov employee salary + benefits $140,000.

Fired.

Gets private sector job at $75,000

Pays 12,000 in personal income tax”

Ok, now let’s do some reality.

Where is the parasite that was on $140,000 + benefits for their bullshit job in “International Development” which they’ve been doing for 10-15 years going to get a $75k job in the private sector? Which industries need that “””skillset””” and are going to hire them in this environment?

Or the $140k DEI manager who did gender studies at some mid-tier University and has never done a productive thing in their lives - who is hiring them?

You’re thinking about people as interchangeable widgets.

They’re not.

These are USELESS people. Their existence was entirely subsidised and that is baked into the economy so when that rug gets pulled, all the dominoes go with it.