Because EVERY SINGLE GOVERNMENT JOB is vital to our survival! At least, according to fear-mongering ass hats…
COULD cause prices to rise? LOL. Many items are plummeting already, you clown. It will take time, but the free market will fix things if left alone.
This article is complete tripe written by a far-left socialist female (Katie Knibbs) who used to be a tech writer and has ZERO background in economics or common sense. Her entire Twitter timeline is filled with anti-Trump propaganda and praise for the corrupt USAID program.
(She was also “educated” at a rich-kids school in Montreal – a hotbed for socialist agitators.)
In her crappy propaganda article, she finds a few disgruntled idiots who were fired and lets them fearmonger about invasive species getting into the United States if they aren’t IMMEDIATELY rehired! Two of the species mentioned are the African Giant Snail and the Asian Longhorn Beetle.
Wait a second!
The USDA has been around since 1889! Furthermore, 1969 was during LBJ’s term while 2011 was Black Jesus’s term. And 1996 was smack in the middle of Bill Clinton’s term.
Whoops.
You see, nobody is saying that keeping out invasive species is a bad idea. But when you have 300 USDA slugs sitting around doing a job that could be done by 40 employees, then there are going to be fat, lazy slobs getting fired by DOGE and then running to the nearest TV news station to cry like a pussy.
I also question the notion that government food inspectors are highly competent or omnipotent. Why, just ask Gaylon Amonett! He’s the fuckup who caused a ton of people to be poisoned or killed a while back. Comrade Clayton knows him, since he replaced Gaylon as the secretary of the Texas Farmers Union! LOL. What are the odds???
As you can see, government inspectors are hardly infallible. Perhaps the free market would do a better job of policing food, if given a chance! Who knows.