Dems and the media are still stuck on “won’t someone think of the government”. Their pathetic struggle to get someone, anyone to empathize with an entity that most Americans hate isn’t going so well.

So the media has tried appealing to our self-interest by…

1. Warning that not spending billions to ship wheat to third-world countries that hate us will hurt farmers
2. That firing IRS agents will make refunds arrive more slowly
3. That firing federal employees will slow down the economy

I don’t foresee argument 3 performing any better than arguments 1 and 2 fared.

The Trump administration’s purge of federal workers may ultimately amount to the biggest job cut in U.S. history, which is likely to have ramifications for the economy, especially at the local level, according to economists.

While the precise scale of the job cuts is as yet unclear, evidence suggests it’s at least in the tens of thousands so far, economists said.

Tens of thousands, you say? 761,358 Americans lost their jobs last year.

20 million jobs were lost during the pandemic. And the media cheered.

While I don’t imagine shedding tens of thousands of jobs will be immediately ‘good’ for the economy, most of those federal employees will find other jobs (the same can’t be said for sizable numbers of workers who simply dropped out of the economy during COVID) and if this translates into reduced government spending, then it’s good for the economy. (That’s a big ‘if’ because federal budgets keep on growing rather than shrinking.)

It’s also good for taxpayers who don’t have to subsidize as massive of a state apparatus.