First of all, most of the government jobs that have been created over a long period were not real jobs. They were placeholders for administrations that wanted to look like they were creating jobs in the economy, such as the jobs reports we’ve seen over the last several years with the Biden administration. But they weren’t real jobs driven by absolute value, so they were always dangerous. Most of the jobs in the federal government never should have been created and were always useless. So the talk that is going on now with the new Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy effort with the Department of Government Efficiency, otherwise known as D.O.G.E., where entire departments will lose their jobs, is a task we should have been utilizing for a long time. Aside from saving a lot of taxpayer money, one primary reason for doing it is creating actual value jobs rather than placeholders. For instance, 1.3 million federal workers are currently approved for telework, according to the Office of Personnel Management. Only six percent of federal workers are working full-time in their offices. Thirty percent are fully remote. Suppose you are a government employee working from home in any capacity. In that case, you aren’t working hard enough for a value-driven job, and your position needs to be eliminated for lack of effectiveness. There is no such thing in my mind as “work from home.” I call that a vacation. If you are not out there talking to people and driving work toward some objective, you aren’t working. You are just talking. In the United States, there is about to be a massive economic boom, and we need all the workers we can get to fill actual roles. I also don’t define a work week as 40 hours or 5 days a week. The government does not have the correct demands on their employees to fulfill the needs of the top economy in the world, and it shows. And that has to come to an end.
One of the reasons we have stagnation in our economy is that we have too many people working too few hours in jobs that mean next to nothing. And when you study the amount of money that flows through Washington D.C. to prop up fake jobs that do nothing but give people a paycheck because there are no actual demands for the services those jobs provide, it’s no wonder why things in life take as long as they do. The government is inefficient and has no desire to be otherwise or to justify their jobs through competition, and in the wake of all that, it has become a real weight on the American economy. Too few people are chasing real meaningful employment options and, instead, are pushing for a universal wage mentality where people are paid just to exist, which has really ballooned with the post-Covid stay-at-home culture. It was always a dumb idea and would need to be reformed at some point in time. The system was so abused that not cleaning and fixing the house would result in massive layoffs by the millions. And what are those people going to do? The job reports for a while will be very negative because all this time, they have been propped up by phony statistics justifying phony needs. But as a good measure, if you work less than 6 hours per day, you aren’t working a real job that can be replaced and should be replaced by a real job that works much more. Generally, it would be best to work a job where people scream for you to work more than 40 hours per week. If you aren’t, whether in the public sector or private, you should be looking for a job that needs you more. Not one that pays you to be a slot on a spreadsheet to show justification for a government office.
I would say I have vast experience with this topic. Recently, while I was a grand jury foreman, I spent much of the summer of 2024 at the courthouse every day, and I was stunned at how many good people were seriously under-employed. No wonder many people want a government job; those jobs pay too much for insufficient work. And they aren’t driven by any efficiency measure. While I was in court all those days, the courthouse of Hamilton, Ohio, was very active from 9 AM until lunchtime. Then, the place started clearing out, and the parking garage emptied. For everyone, this was a typical day of work. For me, it was a lunch break. I typically work at least 10 hours per day on something. Often, I put in 20-hour days that last all around the clock. I sleep when I can, but the work comes first. So, this court culture of government workers was stunning because I usually avoid those kinds of people. I wouldn’t say that they were lazy. But their expectations of employment were way off. It is not even close to what reality demands of an employed position. There were very few people working from 9 to 4 PM. And indeed, nobody was working more than that, which should have been considered normal. The actual crime is that these government positions drag down the expectations for private sector work where the real need for one employee to do one position should exceed a 12-hour workday. The labor movement in America, driven by a global communist movement, has impacted productivity in detrimental ways, and the most apparent jobs are government workers who aren’t realistically in the ballpark.
There are around 168 million workers in America as of September of 2024 to maintain a 19 trillion dollar GDP. To pay off the 35 trillion dollars in debt we have now, we need an economic expansion of at least double that, perhaps to triple that. And we can do it with a combination of things, starting with the energy sector, to export energy to the world by stopping the war against fossil fuels. That is the quickest way to ignite cash back into our economic system, which has been artificially suppressed. Then there is the upcoming space economy that is worth trillions on its own, and all these jobs will need employees to manage them. So we need more workers than that 168 million people to expand the economy, and we don’t need a bunch of slugs wasting their lives on a government job, working from their living rooms, feeding their cats. Government employment must become private sector-driven toward real economic growth, not fake government statistics. Much of that gap will come from robotics and artificial intelligence, which will help expand the amount of work we can do. But humans in jobs aren’t going away anytime soon. Likely, not in this century. So we need to switch government jobs into real performing jobs in the private sector quickly and stunningly over the next two years of Trump’s next term. And it will be shocking to many. But remember that many of those jobs should have never been created by the government. Many lazy people will lose jobs that weren’t that important, selling their expensive homes in the suburbs of Washington D.C. for a while before they learn to be productive with a real job. But that whole mess should have never been propped up, and the actual value suppressed under phony jobs reports that were only lines on a spreadsheet to make people feel good about essentially nothing. And in the new economy of tomorrow, we need to turn nothing into something quickly.
Rich Hoffman
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