Posted on 09/14/2010 11:21:06 AM PDT by bestintxas
If Republicans sweep the House and win key Senate seats in November, it’s not just elected Democrats who will be unemployed — more than 1,500 Democratic staffers could lose their jobs, with layoffs stretching from low-wage staff assistants to six-figure committee aides.
While turnover and job loss is a fact of life for those who serve in Congress, a change in party control can be dramatic as committee funding is slashed for the party falling out of power and hundreds of high-salary jobs switch hands.
The layoffs start with election losers. Each House office employs about 18 people, and each Senate office employs about 34. But the heaviest job loss happens in committees, which employ hundreds of highly paid experts and attorneys. In the House, the majority controls 66 percent of the committee budget, meaning if Democrats shift to the minority, they would control only about one-third of committee funds, potentially leaving hundreds of committee staffers unemployed if Republicans sweep the House.
While there are no signs yet of a Hill-wide stampede, some Democratic aides say they are bracing for the worst.
“I think people underestimate how disastrous this could be,” said one House Democratic aide, whose member faces an uphill climb. “The job pool could shrink tremendously, and then the available jobs will be in very high demand. All sorts of people who are overqualified for things could be looking for jobs.”
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What balls to say he and his padres are "overqualified".
Wait, I thought it was called FUNemployment now?
Why the HECK is all this dead weight needed? Someone please tell me what these people "do."
We could cut these staff sizes in half easily.
If you’re only qualified for a government job, you’re completely useless to society.
Wait... are we to assume that Republicans won't have staffers or that Republicans hire fewer staffers? I wouldn't assume either. It would be nice if the job pool shrank but I expect they'll just rearrange the deck chairs.
Funny, I don’t recall any hand wringing over staff layoffs the last time Congress changed hands.
Gee, and since the Dems are going after McDonalds and other fast food chains, what will these people do? They will have to resort to begging on the streets!
boo freaking hoo.
NO problema, just sign on with any RINO.
They are typically hired to run RINO offices.
They need to go through and look at everyone that was appointed or promoted by the Muslim Usurper and boot them out of government completely.
OMG, Socialist Liberal RAT destroyers find out that they have to go out into the real world they destroyed. There is a God!
The hand wringing in this article is unintentionally humorous. And while they do take a stab at fairness (quoting a Repub who went through a majority change and job loss), they still portray it as some sort of crisis. My impression is that ‘it isn’t REAL unemployement unless a Dem is involved.’ Obviously, Dem staffers are layed will be and Tea Party staffers will be hired on - quite without a net change in unemployment levels. I think the article hints that Repubs retain more staff so hey...this could be GOOD for unemployment!
Not to worry, I am sure they will all land on their feet in liberal think-tanks, universities, labor unions and state gubbermint jobs in blue states. I don’t suspect that any are going to be handing me a shopping cart the next time I go to WalMart.
They all cheered as Pelosi and Reed rammed through one unpopular bill after another. They all cheered as they passed monstrous pork packages and the unemployment figures kept rising. They all cheered as ordinary people were thrown out of work and lost their health insurance, but they had secure employment and benefits for themselves. They all mocked the ordinary folks who had the poor taste to question their congress critters at constituent meetings last summer, before they cancelled all the constituent meetings.
Now they pay the price.
What goes around comes around.
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