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Economy

Bernardo de La Paz

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1. Fascists try to hide statistics, but business depends on them & the people can see job losses around them

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sun Mar 2, 2025, 02:36 PM

Mar 2

We're not quite there yet, but when the job losses mount, the people will know.

Further, they can hide government decline somewhat, but people will know when services are disrupted or not reliable or unavailable or useless.

And more: government job terminations have multiplier ripple effects in the economy.

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