Well….I’ll play the contrarian a bit here. Absolutely, if Trump wins we must slash federal spending. That includes a whole lot of people with families and mortgages. It’s won’t be pretty and I do feel bad for them.
However, theirs is a house built on the sand of borrowed deficit spending. We have to cut to save the country. I hope those federal employees actually have marketable skills.
Again, though, whose fault is this? It’s the fault of any idiot who votes Democrat and never once questioned how this would all end.
Govt was the shelter for the overproduction of colleges and universities. The system was self-replicating and ever-expanding with no curbs to the limits of it. That's the trouble with tribbles.
It's a really cute idea to offer free college to some people because they can't afford it, while others pay full price, but what does that to the actual value of an education? (WHAT happens when a company over-produces a product and saturates the market? Prices drop because perceived value drops.)
The problem with govt "higher ed" is that they are budget driven. They need to keep the budget increasing to keep expanding and keep up with inflation, causing expenses to increase, while people as a rule do less and less work, necessitating more and more employees to get the same work accomplished.... Then you need more buildings and more land to house staff and maintenance... then you need more money to operate more facilities, then you need to upgrade....
You also need more students to justify the budgets, but they can't all graduate with the current number of depts, so you add more depts, more majors, more degrees, and then more instructors who do less and less instructing and need more assistance to teach classes, so you need more graduate students for cheaper labor... and the schools all wind up putting out more and more graduates with less and less valuable skills for fewer and fewer jobs.
So... the govt became the safe haven for a while. Now those same people are being absorbed by industry and the market, and businesses and markets are failing, while at the same time there's not enough skilled at repairing or building anew what is needed.
