“It’ll do the job of funneling the Persians into the Hot Gates.” – 300
Crime doesn’t pay is outdated. “Crime doesn’t pay as well as politics” is probably more accurate. (All memes “as found”)
As a kind poster on X® pointed out earlier this month, 20% of America’s “jobs” are essentially a Universal Basic Income for the GloboLeft. Think of it as welfare for the woke.
This 20% are government jobs, sure, but they’re also the jobs at all of the NGO foundations and organizations that siphon off your tax money to do things that nobody but the GloboLeftElite wants and that they certainly don’t want voters to know about.
Think: billions of your tax dollars going to induce illegal aliens to move to the United States. Trump, however, has started cutting the funding and this has already had a dramatic effect: D.C.’s home prices are already down 10%, and the soy-latte crowd are already feeling the pain.
None of this is new. As I’ve written in the past, Peter Turchin calls the process of the GloboLeftElite extracting cash from the populace the Wealth Pump. And, if you control the Wealth Pump, why not pump part of the wealth to the people who vote for you?
How GloboLeft are government workers? 75%? 80%? I’d imagine at most NGOs the number is nearing 95%, and the other 5% are Green party voters.
When I was young, Ma Wilder would feed me and say, “here comes the choo-choo train”. If I didn’t eat, she wouldn’t untie me from the tracks.
The NGO cash is especially damaging. It circulates through a network of intertwined foundations and charities and think-tanks whose boards often are the same cast of characters. Not all grants fall into this cycle, but plenty of the grants do.
Now the cash is being tracked, and it is being shut down at the source. It’s also likely that tens to hundreds of thousands of .gov employees will soon not be. Now, generally I feel compassion. I like people. Really.
But when it comes to .gov and NGO jobs, they’re not jobs, many of them are just members of a publicly financed voting bloc. Just go onto Reddit® and read the unhinged reactions to being asked to write five simple sentences about what they did last week. Five sentences. Even at the slothful speed of, say, Health and Human Services, it shouldn’t take more than fifty minutes and a smoke break.
Just work through the tears.
The only reason to resist it? If the employee added no value. That’s it. The only reason. I refuse to feel sorry for work-from-homers afraid about losing their remote-work herbal-wrap lifestyles.
But this brings out an interesting concept: deflation. During the Biden Residency, people on the GloboLeft couldn’t understand why flyover America was angry. The had no idea, since their lifestyles of Pilates in the morning before going to buy more ill-advised yoga pants wasn’t impacted at all. They were, as I noted, living the “$90,000 a year for making PowerPoints™ about gender” dream.
If they’re unemployed, their spending dries up. If government spending dries up as well, or even if the growth of government spending dries up, well, there goes your inflation. Those who used to tip baristas will fight to become baristas because they don’t have any other quantifiable skills.
First, who voted for Ukrainians to psyop us? Second, is there even $140,000,000 in cabbage, vodka and despair in all of Ukraine?
In fact, on the higher end, you could see cuts that would amount to 5% to 7% of GDP. Oh, and Starbucks™ just announced it is laying off 1,100 people right as D.O.G.E. is attacking the heart of the lair.
Tax cuts and regulation cuts, however, will end up increasing real jobs that add to economic wealth. Welders and truckers and men who build things, and not just the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate market. Berkshire-Hathaway™ has a record amount of cash sitting in a pile, all ready to pounce on assets as Wall Street reacts because they see this coming.
Tariffs won’t be as bad as anyone thought. One recent study predicts a whopping 0.3% increase in consumer prices related to tariffs. In the best case, we see a D.C. and blue city bust, while flyover country booms.
How many people have the Department of Education educated? How much energy has the Department of Energy added to the grid?
But that’s after the recession. We’re due one, and we’re due a market correction, and not a small one. Here’s hoping that we have the good sense to not try to “fix” things like they did during the Great Depression, but instead have a short, sharp recession to clean out the rot that has creeped in over the last 15 years.
The other side of the tunnel is bright, however.
Imagine:
- 5 million few fed/NGO jobs.
- 10 regulations hacked out for every new regulation.
- Productivity jumping and real (not inflated) wages jumping since illegals have been rooted out and sent back to their homes.
- Free PEZ™, elephant rides, and pantyhose for everyone!
Not everyone is going to win, however. If D.C. is finally hollowed out, home prices there will crater without the GloboLeft UBI jobs. Home prices there drop 25%. 50%.
What happens when a middle-aged CIA dude has to find a real job?
The other downside is that blue urban areas explode with violence. They lose the NGO cash, they lose the loose GloboLeftPartyGirl spending, and crime will spike, especially if Kennedy makes EBT funding work only for actual food and not pizza rolls.
Is a crime spike of 20% realistic? 40%?
Guess those Soros District Attorneys weren’t a bargain, after all.
But this won’t happen in Texas. Not in Florida. Not in Montana. Those states mostly flourish. Ranchers don’t need diversity consultants, avocado body balm, or hot stone carbuncle massage.
But let’s not spend a lot of tears on the GloboLeft who no longer are consuming kale smoothies. They didn’t build anything, they just consumed.
Remember all those transgender Rangers that stormed Pointe du Hoc? Yeah, me neither.
But, hey, good news!
I’ll bet you can get a place around D.C. pretty cheap nowadays. Maybe might even have that fresh GloboLeftist tears smell.
I love winning.
As easy as it should be to summarize one’s accomplishments in five bullet points, imagine if all those responses were passed to an AI for “rank and yank” firing of the bottom … 10% 50%? If you thought that your future employment depended on your five bullets being ranked better than your nearby co-workers five bullets, how much effort would you put into the writing? Would you trust your competitors to answer truthfully? If summarizing your work in five bullet points IS your Core Competency, you’re sort of supporting the skepticism of your worth to the nation. Indiscriminant firing of the recently hired, regardless of performance, does not increase trust in the wisdom of The Management.
Lathechuck
I can list more than five things I did just yesterday but then again I work for myself and if I don’t work hard, I don’t get paid. Weird how that creates an incentive to work that doesn’t exist for gubmint worker drones.
Medicated, globohomos seeing their world burning will result in violence that normies are not going to believe.
I wait with baited breath…
It is not just the .gov jobs or NGOs, a ton of jobs in America are absolutely meaningless and only exist because we have a glut of college grads who won’t work real jobs. I hope your optimism is warranted but my working theory remains that something is going to come apart later this year and Trump will get blame for it by both parties.
Housing costs may be down 10% in DC, but with Patel moving 500 FBI agents to Siberia, er, my hometown of Huntsville AL, our home prices just keep going up. (We house big FBI cyber and evidence warehousing functions here, second largest FBI site after DC). They bring the proceeds of their Virginia and Maryland McMansions down South and are stunned at how much more house that cash can buy down here. The same thing happened when they moved MDA (Missile Defense Agency) down here a few years ago and it will happen again when/if they move Space Force HQ here from its “temporary” base in Colorado.
We have the same thing happening here that happened to Colorado with its California move-ins – blue worker influx turning our red county/state purple and then blue in the end. That’s a different kind of “rot” that is very real in many places as the Swamp – and California – are drained.