Perspective, Malik.
You need some.
Posted on 02/22/2025 9:30:55 AM PST by simpson96
A prominent member of "Black Americans for Trump" organization parted ways with the president on CNN Saturday morning over the slash-and-burn methods of Elon Musk's DOGE that is devastating the families of fired federal workers.
According to GOP strategist Melik Abdul, an acquaintance of his lost his federal job in a rural community as part of the purge after only being on the job for six months.
After CNN's "Table for Five" Abby Philip shared clips of Jesse Watters of Fox News "freaking out" about the federal worker purge after a veteran getting "DOGE'd," as the Fox host put it, after previously gleefully calling the mass firings "a blessing from heaven above," Abdul chimed in with a similar story.
"It seems like that Jesse Watters agrees with me that Republicans should stop demonizing federal workers," he told the panel.
"To his point, I know a guy down in Alabama, first time getting a government job. He had, you know, fresh out of college, had been trying to get a job for a couple of years now, finally got that government job, I think, about six months ago –– well, he's laid off now," he reported. "So his kid, his wife, all of that promise, it's totally gone."
"And I think your point is right," he elaborated. "Once people start seeing –– because when we think of federal government, for many anti-government people, they think DMV, meaning D.C., Maryland and Virginia, they don't see federal government as someone working, living in a rural area of Mississippi, commuting to a job at the Department of Agriculture. They don't see them as federal workers, which is why it's always easy to just say, 'Shut them down, they'll get paid.' That's not how it works."
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Perspective, Malik.
You need some.
Many blacks don’t get that the federal gov’t is not their friend.
“I know a guy...”
Sure, you do
Who gives af...
...just start crying for reparations...
Give everyone in rural MS a job with the USDA!
A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have. Governments don’t make very good sugar daddies.
the shallowest of Americans are the “IWANTS” that only agree with the bigger picture when they still get their wants met.
So, it’s fine for the private sector to trim and increase efficiencies at the cost of laying off staff, but the government can’t cut its fat?
Here’s a clue, If you’re NOT productive, you are DEAD WEIGHT and need to find a position you can contribute to society with.
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He says "he began federal government service as a political appointee of then-president, George W. Bush. Melik received his B.A. in English from the University of the District of Columbia. He is a longtime resident Washington, D.C.'s East of the River community."
A DC denizen, sometime federal employee of some sort, and I wager in the moment in need of some attention and income not being found in the Trump-Vance administration. So, NOTICE ME!
NIMBY’s
they “say” they want to shrink government, but when it affects them directly they change their tune.
The Federal Government is not an employment agency.
So, everyone is now turning on Trump because he’s doing what they wanted him to do before they realized that “they know somebody.” Nice. A lot of people living in this country these days are retarded ahos. The U.S. Government was never meant to be a jobs program. USAID was never meant to be an ATM for organizations not allowed to receive taxpayer dollars. Even the US Congress is now being loaded up with illegal alien refugees and no one seems to care.
Still looking for the govt teat. Get a real job and produce something useful.
P.S. “Raw Story” is a scumbag far left website. A bunch of real American haters.
A lot of apocryphal BS you going on, now.
With all the companies coming back to the US they will find a job in no time. They are being short sighted.
As to his friend, he can that the union for requiring probationary employees go first. In a merit based government he can be rehired once things shake out.
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.”
Good one. I explain it to people like this. “The govt will always give you just enough to keep you begging for more, but never enough to make you free. Only you can do that.”
That’s called “the velvet handcuffs.”
I wonder if Jesse Waters knows that his pal Joe Pedo removed veterans from the U.S. Government’s “preference list” before he slinked out of the Oval Office.
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