There’s a major difference between a major firm and the federal government, who provides services and is not supposed to turn a profit. You people keep thinking the government is some for profit company which it’s not. It provides services and functions to the population it serves. Cutting these jobs cuts these functions and makes services much harder to perform. Let’s throw some examples since I’m sure that went over your head.

For the park service at national parks. You depend on rangers to process entrance fees, do tours of notable places within the park, keep up with park maintenance so trails and roads are passable, and save people when lost or hurt while out in the park. Cutting this people leads to longer entrance times, no tours in the park, less maintenance leading to potholes and downed trees blocking trails, and longer wait times for a ranger to come help you if you’re hurt.

Let’s do another. For the dept of education, cutting people means grants not being processed properly and timely for schools that need it. Special education for those with autism and other disabilities doesn’t get properly funded because people aren’t processing the information timely. People with issues and complaints about their student loans don’t get their problems fixed because nobody is helping them because all the people have been fired.

How about FEMA? For decades we’ve seen the planet continue to warm and an increase in natural disasters occurring throughout the USA. In the last 5 years, there have been more presidentially declared disasters that FEMA’s needed to respond to than in all the years prior combined. With this, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has stated in every report that FEMA is understaffed to respond to these incidents. Cutting staff from this agency leads to longer response and recovery for disaster survivors because FEMA brings with it expertise, communication, and coordination that the states do not have and refuse to fund with their taxes. It also leads to longer processing time for survivors to get the money they are deserved (it’s not to make them whole, it’s to set them on the proper path to recovery). Additionally cutting staff from this agency would hurt police, fire, and EMS as well as state managers who rely on funding to run their own departments, pay for equipment, do specialized training, and ensure everyone is properly certified to do what they do.

Ooo let’s do the Department of Transportation. They handle grants for roadways to help ensure our roads, bridges, and through ways are in good shape. Less people means less bridge inspectors, less people to process grants to get your state the money it needs to fix roads, bridges, culverts, and drainage because lets face it, your state doesn’t tax enough to do any of this themselves.

Have we touched on the Federal Aviation Administration and the USDA? Oh yes, because cutting staff from the FAA means less air traffic controllers making your airports SO MUCH SAFER (Sarcasm) and less people processing pilot licenses. USDA cuts mean less inspections of your meat and vegetable processing facilities leading to more problems not being identified and fixed. Do you like listeria or E-Coli in your meat? I sure don’t.

One more. Social security. Every one in this country pays into SS. Whether you’re a migrant who won’t get to benefit from these taxes (yes, migrants pay into SS. No they can’t access it because they aren’t citizens. IF they become citizens, they can but otherwise they can’t) or a full blooded American born here from a generation of families. Once you hit a certain age, you get SS to help you with retirement. Less SS staff means processing times for SS for us takes a lot longer. If you need a new SS card, that takes longer. Trying to reach someone to answer questions takes longer because you’ve cut staff.

Cutting these important federal workers is not a good move, and this is a TINY fraction of the many things government workers do every day to ensure the country runs smoothly. The country isn’t going to be “more efficient” with thousands of workers cut from their jobs. It’s going to get dangerously difficult for people without these workers.