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Washington’s artificial job boom is over. The layoffs are real. The ripple effects will spread.
Citizen Watch Report ^ | Alex Mark

Posted on 02/24/2025 10:49:43 AM PST by davikkm

200,000 jobs—gone in Washington, D.C., in less than a month. This isn’t just a blip. Consumer spending will take a hit. Housing won’t be far behind. But don’t expect the impact overnight. This is a slow-motion unraveling.

The so-called "booming" service sector last quarter? Just inflated prices masking stagnation. The illusion of expansion disappears the moment you look at the numbers. And now, the consequences are here.

(Excerpt) Read more at citizenwatchreport.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; employment; layoffs; washington; yourefired
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1 posted on 02/24/2025 10:49:43 AM PST by davikkm
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To: davikkm

“200,000 jobs—gone in Washington, D.C., in less than a month. “

Hallelujah!


2 posted on 02/24/2025 10:53:11 AM PST by simpson96
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To: davikkm

Hmmm…removal of parasites from the body of the PRODUCTIVE portions of the American economy is not a GOOD THING? Learn to code… or build!


3 posted on 02/24/2025 10:53:30 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: davikkm

Do you all want to know who fired 400,000, YES 400,000 federal workers during his term..BILL CLINTON yep SLICK WILLY himself..no one cried, no one made a fuss, and the economy did NOT suffer from doing it


4 posted on 02/24/2025 10:53:58 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: davikkm

When D.C goes down, America goes UP!!!!


5 posted on 02/24/2025 10:54:47 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: davikkm

Sounds like an admission that the US economy has been propped up by government spending alone.


6 posted on 02/24/2025 10:54:48 AM PST by Gary from Dayton (Army Vet 1986-1991 unburdened by what I was burdened by before.)
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To: davikkm

Do we really need 87,000 DEI hires with guns and badges working for the IRS?


7 posted on 02/24/2025 10:55:03 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The U.S. Government was not created to be a jobs program. )
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To: Sarah Barracuda

It certainly did in 2005-2006. One reason bush lost the house. It doesn’t happen overnight.


8 posted on 02/24/2025 10:56:25 AM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: simpson96

learn to code

said the XL pipeline worker


9 posted on 02/24/2025 10:56:31 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Why would the economy suffer because of federal gov’t shrinkage?

Federal gov’t shrinkage is a leading indicator of an economic boon and stock market rise.


10 posted on 02/24/2025 10:57:05 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: davikkm

hopefully most live in Northern Virginia and have liberals spouses and they both move out of Virgina along with 10’s of thousands of others being fired.

Make Virginia Great Again

MVGA


11 posted on 02/24/2025 10:59:34 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: davikkm

Short term pain for long term gain.


12 posted on 02/24/2025 10:59:46 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Gary from Dayton

“Sounds like an admission that the US economy has been propped up by government spending alone.”

Exactly my first thought - a hollow shell of imagination alone, illustrated with smoke & mirrors.


13 posted on 02/24/2025 11:00:19 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Those were military cuts they claimed were “federal workers” under klinton.


14 posted on 02/24/2025 11:01:17 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: davikkm

They should learn to pump oil.


15 posted on 02/24/2025 11:07:52 AM PST by scouter (As for me and my household... We will serve the LORD.)
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To: KC_Conspirator

September 30. What’s left of these departments can be transferred to deep blue cities like Chicago or Boston where their vote won’t matter.


16 posted on 02/24/2025 11:07:53 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: scouter

Or rather, they should learn to drill.


17 posted on 02/24/2025 11:08:54 AM PST by scouter (As for me and my household... We will serve the LORD.)
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To: Jim W N

The jobs report always shows that the vast majority of jobs created either came from illegals or from the federal Govt..is hardly the private sector..so the best thing is for these federal employees to go into the private sector


18 posted on 02/24/2025 11:09:41 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: KC_Conspirator

I grew up in the Virginia burbs, many of my friends worked for the government but are all retired now, even before the Planed-Demic, so they missed out on all this BS.


19 posted on 02/24/2025 11:10:51 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I get your point, but...the vast majority of the 87K were not going to be gun totters. Our side does not help ourselves when we keep posting this.


20 posted on 02/24/2025 11:12:54 AM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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