Recovery from DOGE is hard.
To put recovery from DOGE into perspective: In tiny Switzerland we elected prime right-winger Blocher into government and he ran the justice department for a handful years. And he fired a lot of people for efficiency. And the institutions are still struggling twenty years later. People fired find new jobs, new careers, early retirements. People staying work hard, burn out, are angry, work on projects and switch tracks before the projects run into walls. The institutional memory keeps shrinking as the new recruits are younger and younger. Suddenly the seniors have been here for just four years. It’s a disgrace. A festering wound. All the jobs are overwhelming and people are drained when they take these positions and they leave again or burn out or struggle or backstab.
And of course everybody who was against the cuts isn’t automatically in favour of increasing the budgets and raising taxes when the chainsaw politicians are gone. But the jobs still needs to get done and so quality goes down and waiting times increase and you can all join the slow march of institutional death and hope for that rekindling of the founding spirit, when having working institutions are a goal again, when the empathy-deprived scrooges are long gone.
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