Some Laid Off Fed Workers Give Statement
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk are doing exactly what they were put in place to do—cutting through the bloated bureaucracy, eliminating waste, and reminding career government employees that, yes, they can actually be fired. And no matter how much the media screams about it, Americans are cheering it on. Democrats and their media allies might be clutching their pearls, but this is exactly what people voted for. If they didn’t see it coming, well, that’s on them.
The latest attempt to manufacture outrage comes from Axios, which, in classic liberal media fashion, wants you to feel very bad for federal employees now experiencing the kind of job insecurity the rest of America has dealt with for decades. DOGE-led firings, they warn, are “tearing at the promise of job security” that government workers have come to expect.
Let’s pause for a moment and consider how insane that statement is. The rest of America—the private sector, small businesses, entire industries like energy and manufacturing—deals with job losses, downsizing, and layoffs all the time. And somehow, we’re supposed to believe that government workers should be immune to that reality?
They go on to lament that “millions of federal workers are now feeling the same kind of job anxiety more familiar to those in corporate America.” Oh no! Not job anxiety! Welcome to the real world. The Axios piece even includes a quote from a longtime federal employee, hiding behind anonymity, who admits that the mentality of government workers has always been that their jobs were protected. Well, not anymore. That gravy train has officially been derailed.
Let’s talk about what real job losses look like. Where was all this sympathy when Biden shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, leaving over 10,000 people without work? Where were the breathless media sob stories when entire coal towns were devastated because Democrats decided they weren’t politically convenient anymore? Where was the Axios piece about job security when small businesses were being crushed by COVID lockdowns while government workers sat comfortably at home, getting paid no matter what?
The reality is that Americans outside of Washington, D.C., have been dealing with job insecurity, economic anxiety, and mass layoffs for years. Now, a bunch of bureaucrats who thought they had a guaranteed paycheck for life are realizing that government jobs were never supposed to be a permanent entitlement, and suddenly, the media expects everyone to be up in arms. Sorry, but that’s not how this works.
And let’s dispel another media-driven myth: that these layoffs are somehow going to cause the collapse of the country. Give me a break. The federal government has been operating with layers upon layers of redundancy, inefficiency, and outright waste for decades. If anything, cutting the dead weight will make it run better.
Americans don’t want a bloated, inefficient, untouchable bureaucracy. They want a government that works for them, not one that exists to protect itself. That’s what this is about. No amount of Axios think-pieces or CNN sob stories is going to change that. The swamp is being drained, and no one outside of D.C. is shedding a tear.
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