General Discussion

The federal government may employ millions, but for every federal employee, there's at least that many, if not more contractors and public sector jobs depending on that federal department being open.
How many people ended up with shorter hours, fewer commissions, or flat out lost their jobs whenever there was a Federal Government shutdown?
There's very few companies that can tool up quickly and replace the Federal government, not only for the work they do, but all the other supporting "living wage" (or close to it ) jobs that a Federal Agency building brings to a community.
The Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation want to return us to a Colonial Plantation economy, which doesn't work well in a global setting.
Of course, those millionaires and billionaires can always flee to their villa or dacha on some remote island while the world around it suffers. What do they care?
Haele