Posted on 03/07/2025 5:56:50 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK (AP) — Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some laid-off federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their firing.
The country’s bitterly tribal politics are spilling into text chains, social media posts and heated conversations as Americans absorb the reality of the government’s cost-cutting measures. Expecting sympathy, some axed workers are finding family and friends who instead are steadfast in their support of what they see as a bloated government’s waste.
“I’ve been treated as a public enemy by the government and now it’s bleeding into my own family,” says 24-year-old Luke Tobin, who was fired last month from his job as a technician with the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho’s Nez Perce National Forest.
Tobin’s job loss sent him scurrying to fill prescriptions before he lost his health insurance and filling out dozens of applications to find whatever work he can, even if it’s at a fast-food restaurant. But some relatives reacting to his firing as “what has to happen to make the government great again” has been one of the worst parts of the entire ordeal.
“They can’t separate their ideology and their politics from supporting their own family and their own loved ones,” says Tobin.
Social media is teeming with posts reveling the layoffs and urging DOGE: “Fire more!” In a fiercely divided country, many saw the cutbacks through their own political lens.
One man’s devastation, it turns out, can be another man’s delight.
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The AP is really stretching to tap everyone’s emotions today.
I’m sure it doesn’t have to do anything with that many federal workers lorded over their relatives their job security while the relatives were facing unemployment over covid.
I’m sure it doesn’t have anything to do with that at all.
At 24 years old? I guess we aren't a healthy nation.
So the AP is now discovering that unemployment sucks. And some people ‘celebrate it”??? You mean like when the AP celebrated all those miners who lost their jobs when Biden shut down the coal industry??
So the AP is now discovering that unemployment sucks. And some people ‘celebrate it”??? You mean like when the AP celebrated all those miners who lost their jobs when Biden shut down the coal industry??
Hey AP, welcome to Schadenfreude, the same pleasure you have wallowed in every time a conservative takes a beating somewhere.
Learn to code.
Milton Friedman’s negative tax. Give money to those below the poverty income provided they work full time. Sounds fair.
Read it here yesterday.
The sob stories are getting nauseating.
Forty years in High Tech
I got laid off from IBM after 10 years because....
I didn’t have the correct ethnic background.
I had my job threatened in 2002 by H1b from India.
Welcome to the REAL WORLD.
24? He can learn to code.
Learn to code......................
Getting laid off sucks, especially when you have other mouths to feed. I can empathize, having experienced it early in my career. For some reason the MSM never came around to interview me, and make my ex-employer look bad. Hmmm.
I got laid off once, and not for snything of my doing either.....know what I did?
I sacked up, went out and found another damned job.
I suggest these people do the same.
And BTW.....why didn’t they accept the early buyout?
Boo effin hoo
I was 50 years old when IBM RIFd me. I was just a number on a spreadsheet it seems - employee 819530
Oh, please! Suck it up, buttercup. There are many millions of people who can't work in their "chosen field", for all sorts of reasons, and people who lost their jobs with no notice, and millions who live with the possibility of being out of a job every single day of their lives.
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