Closing All Those Departments: What Happens To The People Who Work For Them?

[brushfire]

They go onto more productive jobs that help grow the economy

 

[erowe1]

Nobody can say what will happen in each case. Central managers can never work out all the details that the free market can or be able to explain how the free market does it. Some of those people will be unemployed (where it's worth noting that they're productivity will stay the same as what it is now). Others won't. But the net result of having the government control less of the economy will be that unemployment overall will be lower without those departments existing than it would be with them.

 

[Diurdi]

Ron Paul answered the question:

"Just look at what happened to the people who worked for the military once the wars ended."

 

[musicmax]

Ron Paul wants to close the Departments of Energy, Commerce, Interior, Education, and Housing and Urban Development. My question is, what would happen to all the people that work for those departments? They will be unemployed. Will they get a severance package from the U.S. government (President Ron Paul) until they find other jobs? How many people would be out of work if all these departments get closed?

Al Capone's goons had to find work after he got busted, too.

 

[musicmax]

Ron Paul answered the question:

"Just look at what happened to the people who worked for the military once the wars ended."

+rep

 

[JamesButabi]

The reason cuts to government never happen, is because the electorate considers just about any public cuts to be heartless maneuvers. The real question is what is the alternative? Ron is trying to input realism into a broken system. Notice none of the other candidates give specific cuts. They all talk the balance the budget game. Call them all out for the frauds that they are. Cmon Mitt, Rick, Cain.....what are your > $1 trillion cuts?


edit* The reason the electorate sees public cuts as heartless is because they don't understand the concept of money.

 

[The Free Hornet]

Al Capone's goons had to find work after he got busted, too.

Wrong. They had to find legal work once prohibition ended.

 

[PastaRocket848]

i agree with all of the above. they can get real jobs in the private sector. i, as a taxpayer, am not willing to pay someone's wage for a job that is not even remotely justified. people tend to forget that we are the ones who "sign the paychecks" for these people. do i feel bad for them? not a bit. they've been living up those gov't benefits, days off, high pay, etc for a long time. we're broke now. we can't afford to pay desk jockeys $30/hr to sort papers.

 

[seapilot]

i agree with all of the above. they can get real jobs in the private sector. i, as a taxpayer, am not willing to pay someone's wage for a job that is not even remotely justified. people tend to forget that we are the ones who "sign the paychecks" for these people. do i feel bad for them? not a bit. they've been living up those gov't benefits, days off, high pay, etc for a long time. we're broke now. we can't afford to pay desk jockeys $30/hr to sort papers.

The private sector cant afford the public sector anymore. What is the government doing, they are hiring more people to create jobs. How are they paying for it? With the US Fed Credit card that puts the US more into debt.

We are beyond what the taxpayer can afford and are going into deficit spending hyper drive to keep the government BIG. This will end with all the government jobs being lost through currency implosion or they flat out wont get paid once the entire government is shut down. Massive promises wont buy groceries or pay the bills.

The government every budget for the past year has issued warnings of shutting down, its going to get worse and they will actually do it for a short time then longer and longer.

 

[JohnGalt23g]

We will put them to work in a productive sector of the economy... working the newly planted hemp fields...

 

[harikaried]

Ron Paul said that staff will be working in other departments when a department is defunded. The big billions of dollars spent are not all going to just paying the staff, who can probably work just as well behind the desk in another department. This influx of staff to other departments will cause hiring to slow as they are then overstaffed and will return to normal staffing levels when people quit.

 

[musicmax]

Wrong. They had to find legal work once prohibition ended.

Uh, that was my point

 

[Fort Lauderdale]

What does the Department of Education do?

 

[Karsten]

They have to get a REAL job.

 

[kuckfeynes]

How can I contain my outpouring of sympathy for poor unemployed bureaucrats???

How ever will we have jobs if the government doesn't create them???

 

[chris41336]

We make them battle, and the last person standing gets to enter the REAL world.

 

[Carole]

One thing I read is that some of the people will be of retirement age and thus attritution would occur. Some would be moved around.

 

[Fort Lauderdale]

The 45th President of the United States of America, Ron Paul!

 

[USAFCapt]

Working for the DoD, there is massive redundancy. I know of numerous loafs in which I have interacted who could be cut to improve efficiency.

 

[Sola_Fide]

Working for the DoD, there is massive redundancy. I know of numerous loafs in which I have interacted who could be cut to improve efficiency.

Blasphemy!