Donald has essentially eliminated the competition for your jobs. You can commence being incompetent, lazy and unproductive.
Not that every straight, white male is incompetent. That is far from the truth, but for those that are, there isn’t any worry that a woman or minority might get paid the same to do the same job anytime in the next four years.
But, you are going to have to start doing some things you aren’t used to. Like hard labor – things that were being done by undocumented immigrants who are no longer here or will be leaving soon. Thing agriculture, service industry jobs, meat-packing, cleaning, and construction jobs to name a few. Since the number of you that will have to come off of disability and re-join the workforce isn’t enough to cover the needed jobs, companies will have to raise wages to attract and retain workers which will cause the cost of virtually everything to increase. Throw in a tariff or two and wonder where your tax cut is (you’re don’t make enough to benefit from any of the tax cuts) and you’ve got a serious problem. Well, can’t women do some of this? No. Sorry – their new job is to be barefoot and pregnant and since abortion is no longer an option, you’ll have several more mouths to feed or a very high level of sexual frustration.
Let’s look at the situation in Iowa, a state that has been struggling with a labor shortage for some time. Iowa’s unemployment rate is 3.2%. There are currently 50,000 unfilled jobs in the state. Now let’s remove 150,00 people from the population (the estimated number of undocumented immigrants in the state). Let’s say 1/3 of those people work. Now we have 100,000 unfilled jobs, a loss of tax revenue (undocumented immigrants contribute $29,000,000,000 (yes billion) dollars to state and local government. So the end result is higher prices, higher inflation, slower production of our goods and a decline in population. Iowa is not growing without immigrants. BAD for the economy for sure.
Well, I guess there will be plenty of laid off federal workers that can take up the slack. With an estimated 209,000 layoffs so far, there should be plenty to fill in. I wonder what the unemployment rate is today? And what will happen without these federal workers? Where did they work?
Probationary workers, about 209,000 – mostly younger people have been let go.
The Department of Agriculture
- Department of the Interior (parks): 2300.
- Department of Education>: 60 so far, but Trump vows to completely dismantle the department.
- Department of Agriculture
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: 100, but only because the courts stopped any more layoffs.
- Department of Energy: 2000, including a lot from the National Nuclear Security Administration which manages our nuclear weapons.
- Department of Health and Human Services: 1300 from the CDC were fired and additional firings happened at the NIH.
- Department of Homeland Security: 400
- Department of Veterans Affairs: 1000
- EPA: 388
- GSA: 100+
- IRS: estimate is 16,000
- Office of Personnel Management: dozens.
- SBA: 144
- US Forest Service, 3400
- USAID: 10,000
- Department of Agriculture: 3400
Please note that departments that make rich people richer were not cut: the military. War is always a money maker, we will definitely see war in the next 4 years.