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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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To: davikkm

bttt


21 posted on 02/24/2025 11:14:03 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: ripnbang

Just saying what the “media” had reported.


22 posted on 02/24/2025 11:15:53 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The U.S. Government was not created to be a jobs program. )
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Yes.

Less gov’t, more prosperity.

Gov’t is an unproductive drag on income and the economy and gov’t regulations kill the economic golden goose. As Adam Smith wrote about, the voluntary cooperation between buyers and sellers in the openly competitive marketplace free from gov’t interference is “The Wealth of Nations”, 1800’s America being a prime example.


23 posted on 02/24/2025 11:16:49 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

2008 Virginia mortgage broker turned Realtor®: “Finally!”


24 posted on 02/24/2025 12:01:42 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: davikkm

Say that’s the same panic story all the left media pimps wonder if they will get sued.


25 posted on 02/24/2025 12:06:21 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I can’t believe I”m going to defend the media, but the media did not report that, or at least the loathed MSM...our side media did, though. We are just as bad, sometimes.


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

I hope they move to Canada!


27 posted on 02/24/2025 12:28:43 PM PST by princess leah ( )
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To: davikkm

Maybe Northern Virginia will return to normal again... but I doubt it.


28 posted on 02/24/2025 9:01:29 PM PST by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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