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Shifting people from low to negative productivity jobs in the government sector to high productivity roles in the commercial sector will greatly improve the average standard of living
X.com ^ | 3:27 PM · Feb 20, 2025 | Elon Musk✓@elonmusk

Posted on 02/20/2025 1:34:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

KanekoaTheGreat✓@KanekoaTheGreat

BREAKING: Federal judge rules that President Trump can continue mass firings of federal workers.

Unions sued last week to block the administration from firing federal workers and granting buyouts to employees who quit voluntarily.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: doge; labor

1 posted on 02/20/2025 1:34:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

BINGO!

I’ve been saying that for years.

Maybe I’ll go back and dig up some of the posts.

When you import more actual products than you export, then what you are actually doing is exporting your standard of living.

The real problem with production being done in low wage countries is that it can take many decades for it to raise their standard of living their to be on par with yours, and once it does, your bad trade policy will simply allow factories to be build in different and new low wage countries.


2 posted on 02/20/2025 1:48:41 PM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I bet these people will not be very productive.

“Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach, get jobs in government.”


3 posted on 02/20/2025 1:50:47 PM PST by Mr. Mohasky (Common sense in a world lacking any, will be perceived & construed as an extreme point of view.)
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To: Mr. Mohasky
Those who can’t teach, get jobs in government.”

Those who won't work, get jobs in government.”

4 posted on 02/20/2025 1:51:34 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Absolutely. With modern technology, the government can be trimmed to a shadow of its former self and be more productive in the process.

And all the pencil pushers can find productive jobs in the private sector.

And they will be happier than ever once they adjust. Everyone is happier when they are valuable because of their productivity.

5 posted on 02/20/2025 1:54:43 PM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Musk is trolling.

The DEI types who got fired from .gov are going to get a brutal awakening in the private sector.


6 posted on 02/20/2025 1:57:31 PM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: RoosterRedux

If you met some of these folks you might change your mind.

Check out the videos of the protests—many of these folks are laughably unemployable.


7 posted on 02/20/2025 1:59:59 PM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Not only this, but millions of people are employed complying with stupid or unproductive government rules and regulations. Think of the entire industry of tax preparation and how it can go away if we replace it with a simpler system of tariffs. It’s not just the IRS that goes away, all those highly trained private tax accountants and all the support staff with them can shift over to positive roles for the economy. The sky really is the limit here folks!


8 posted on 02/20/2025 2:09:07 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: cgbg
You make a good point. Trump needs to set up a boot camp for bureaucrats like Parris Island to transition these folks back to sanity.
"You eyeballin' me, boy? Er, girl? Okay, whatever you are, drop and give me 25...okay, just give me a half."

9 posted on 02/20/2025 2:09:31 PM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If you’ve known govt career workers, especially federal types, you know the private sector is a House of Horrors for them to even contemplate. Actual production leading to (caution, dirty word ahead) profit is expected in the private sector. Filing your little interim reports using all those big words you learned at Georgetown is meaningless in the real world.


10 posted on 02/20/2025 2:10:22 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Are there many jobs for people with degrees in gender and queen studies with experience in DEI?


11 posted on 02/20/2025 2:12:19 PM PST by The Great RJ
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To: RoosterRedux

Just imagine this job interview:

“Tell me about your last job.”

“I worked on monitoring and providing assistance to our non-profit partners to eliminate disinformation on the Internet by dangerous extremists.”

“So it was you that took down my Facebook page?”

“Well, uh, I was just coordinating with public facing organizations like....”

“Get the (expletive deleted) out of my office now. If you want a job time travel to Nazi Germany and ask for Joseph Goebbels you freak.”

Lol.


12 posted on 02/20/2025 2:15:18 PM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: cgbg

“I wasn’t up to the standards of a completely inefficient organization.”


13 posted on 02/20/2025 2:23:13 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: z3n

Echoes of that Giant Sucking Sound. Common sense


14 posted on 02/21/2025 2:31:38 AM PST by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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