Translation: make it as BAD as we said it would be, even if you can avoid such a situation. Der Fuhrer has spoken.
Has limousines for ‘executives’ in the administration been replaced by taxi cabs? No? How about cutting travel privileges to just coach tickets? Maybe even a cap on the cost of hotel rooms to no more than a massive $100 per day?
No, none of this has happened, or is going to happen. Rather than cut extras that should never have been there in the first place (and the accompanying arrests and convictions for embezzlement), the administration intends to take it out on the workers and the public as much as possible.
What would they say if this was how a private company decided to cut costs against a union workforce? They’d be up in arms, and demand other cuts first. ‘Look at how the executives are holding fancy dinner parties multiple times a week while these line workers are being sent home without pay!’ they’d cry.
But instead, they raise their wine glasses, filled by a servant, the vintage one of the best available, the moment costing enough to pay for a federal worker to stay on the job that day, times however many were granted the privilege of attending.
Conferences in exotic locales, the people not only picking up the tab for that, but for everyone to travel there, for a car to drive around, for meals, for lodging, and maybe just a bit on the side to buy something for a special friend who has an hourly cost.
Rank - amusing sometimes to contemplate how many meanings that word has. An accumulation of honors for a military soldier. Power and privileges for a government employee. A horrible scent, typically emanating from corruption. Rank hath its privileges.
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President DoomandGloom orders more pain for the american people