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    „Ekelhaft“: Trumps Top-Wirtschaftsberater prahlt damit, 300.000 „hochbezahlte“ amerikanische Arbeitsplätze gestrichen zu haben

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    1. Silent-Resort-3076 on

      Snippet:

      >“Everybody is hurt by what he’s celebrating,” one public employee union official told Common Dreams. “I guess it’s just par for the course from this administration, but it’s still a disgusting thing to hear.”

      >President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser boasted on Fox Business Thursday that the government had slashed more than 300,000 “high-paying” jobs from the federal payroll during the president’s first year back in office.

      >Asked by anchor Maria Bartiromo about the administration’s efforts to cut government spending, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said it had made “a huge amount of progress.”

      >“I think the biggest thing that we can point to is that we’ve cut government employment by 300,000 [workers](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/workers),” he said. “Those are jobs that are very high-paying that are gone forever.”

    3. vaskov17 on

      These people are now competing for jobs in a private market that is not creating them. When we get to a point where the government tracks and reports data correctly again, we’ll find out the damage DOGE/Vought did with these firings is 10x worse than what we think now

    10. RociBuldidi on

      You cans smell the stupid radiating from that piggy face through the picture.

      Really, Trump surrounds himself with the absolutely dumbest people

    11. Silent-Resort-3076 on

      From 2020:

      >White House economics adviser Kevin Hassett went viral over the weekend for **referring to American workers as “human capital stock”** — a racially charged, dehumanizing turn of phrase that conjured up images of livestock.

      >“Our human capital stock is ready to get back to work,” Hassett told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday, as part of his argument that the US economy is poised for a quick turnaround, even as he acknowledged that the unemployment rate will linger in double figures through November’s election.

    12. jkman61494 on

      Those jobs combined likely account for less than 1 day of bombing Iranian schools

    13. tarantulawarfare on

      They brag about job losses like it’s saved money, while we are barely scraping by and starving.

      And they are also entirely responsible for the brain drain this country will suffer the consequences of for a long time. Our medical professionals, scientists and educators have left in droves because of the oppression and idiocy of this “Christian” Nationalist regime.

    14. joeschmoe1371 on

      Sometime this week the guy from CNBC was running his mouth like this with Pete Buttigiege about the same crap.

      You cannot change an individual’s world views through discourse/education. These people cannnot be reasoned with – we should stop asking them questions and letting them lie with impunity.

    15. Ncav2 on

      That’s also 300000 people we all have to compete with for jobs now if you’re wondering why you aren’t hearing back from employers.

    16. barneyrubbble on

      These people are literally insane. They see numbers, not people. And then they lie, lie, lie about the numbers.
      They keep touting savings and improvements, and yet everything continues to be more expensive, government spending continues to rise anyway, and the public gets fewer and fewer benefits. Funny how they never mention that government employees provide a return; they are not just an expense. Stable, well paid employees provide the service they’re paid for, as well as paying taxes and contributing to the economy. Billionaires and Patriot missiles certainly contribute less. Bean counters are bad enough. Politically motivated bean counters can fuck right off.

    18. vertigostereo on

      I can’t tell the difference, so those 300,000 taxpayer-funded jobs must not have been that important.

    22. LightBeerOnIce on

      Someone needs to wipe that smirk off his face. He is never questioned by anyone other than fox entertainment. Stupid asshole.

    27. elon_musks_cat on

      This works because You have to understand this from a conservative mindset. If you were a conservative, you think that you and you alone are funding the entire federal government. So when they fire all these people, you think “finally, I can get all those tax dollars back instead of paying for these jobs”

      There is no concept of the collective. There is no thought to how your taxes are a tiny, insignificant sliver of the whole pie we all pitch in for. There is nobody else paying taxes like you do and it’s not fair to you, so you’re happy to see these government people get what’s coming to them for ripping you and you alone off all these years.

      If you don’t suddenly see thousands of dollars in your bank account after all these government employees get fired, clearly there’s more fraud and abuse because federal government bad.

      Pay no attention to the record breaking earnings reports quarter after quarter. Pay no attention to the wealth of a handful of people shooting up like a rocket. Pay no attention to companies firing thousands of people after record breaking profits. The reason your life sucks is because some federal government workers get paid well from YOUR taxes. If it wasn’t for taxes, everything would be good. That’s the mindset we’re dealing with and that’s why stupid shit like this works

    28. kummer5peck on

      DOGE only managed to reduce taxpayer value while doing absolutely nothing about the deficit. This idiot should have to trade in his suit for camo fatigues so he can join Trump’s big beautiful jobs program in Iran.

    29. Top-Carob-5412 on

      They brag about cutting federal jobs, but say nothing about savings. Why? Because they are too busy buying $70M planes for Melania, blowing over $100M on Trump’s golfing trips, who knows how many tax dollars are being sunk into his gawdy ball room, and now they want to sink over $350M into the White House reno, add to that his gold coins, and slapping his stupid name on everything (who knows how much that cost – but I’m sure it is in the millions again), and then his latest gambit – the Iran War. Trump is spending money like a drunken fool and not a single person is stopping him, Hassett needs to shut up and sit down.

    30. One-Perception4302 on

      Oh it’s government jobs. My bad, got a bit outraged at the title, please carry on with the good work.

    31. All_Hail_Hynotoad on

      They treat the number of jobs like they’re inanimate objects and not something with a person attached to it. That’s not just 300,000 jobs, thats 300,000 *people* they are gloating about rendering jobless. People with families who depend on them. People who have spent decades serving the public. People who have turned down higher paying jobs in the private sector so they could contribute to society in the public sector. People who have since had to foreclose on homes. People who had perfect credit who have since had to declare bankruptcy. And worse. This is what they are gloating about. And they are very well aware that the job market is bad right now, and this is only making it and the economy worse.

      But eliminating government jobs is not like cutting costs at a private business. It’s not just the elimination of an expense. As others have mentioned, government workers help people obtain services so that they may become more productive members of society, too. Every government worker is hired as a result of something Congress has approved and decided needs staffing. Every time a new program or initiative is started, or even if a law is changed, more people are required because the other programs must continue while these new programs begin. It is not arbitrary hiring.

      Every government job that is lost has a ripple effect on those Americans who need their services the most, and in the case of things like environment and food safety, that’s all of us.

    32. wewantedthefunk on

      The smug, douchebaggy bragging only manages to highlight that they cut all these jobs not just to „look busy/effective“ but to do actual lasting damage to the federal workforce as means to eliminate them in favor of private ownership. The postal service, the VA, the SSA – the list goes on. They want to funnel what little money this „saves“ into those private businesses for a profit. Just like DOGE pretending they were slashing spending but actually only collecting data and undermining or eliminating oversight for Musk, his contracts and his companies. (the stolen public data was just a cherry on top)

    33. Lollipopsaurus on

      What’s wild is that their definition of „high paying job“ is enough to be safe and comfortable, but in no way would be considered anything close to „wealthy“. Likely just above median income. Like the kind of person with a stable job and a moderate retirement account. Not someone buying extra homes and fancy cars.

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