Reign of Pain Update: Sequestration Caused Massive Job Loss

Please notice that I said "job" not "jobs" . . .

. . . according to an audit from the Government Accountability Office:

Only one employee in the entire federal government lost a job due to sequestration, according to a government audit that found the only permanent cut came at the U.S. Parole Commission, which eliminated one position. …
“Despite relentless warnings about the dire consequences of sequestration’s budget cuts, it appears sequestration resulted in only one layoff,” he said. “While that’s good news for federal employees and other workers, it is devastating to the credibility of Washington politicians and administration officials who spent months — and millions of dollars — engaging in a coordinated multi-agency cabinet-level public relations campaign to scare the American people.” …
Seven departments or agencies did furlough employees, but even that was less than a third of government agencies and departments surveyed by the GAO. Instead, those 15 departments and agencies that didn’t furlough employees ended up using leftover savings or cutting other programs. …
According to the GAO, nearly every agency or department affected by sequestration canceled or limited bonuses, cut travel and training, and limited overtime.

So, in short, sequestration accomplished exactly what it was supposed to — and not nearly enough of it at that, despite politicians pushing the myth that we cannot possibly function without a gargantuan, sprawling, ever-growing federal government to create jobs and do things for us.

We really need to know the name of the one person fired let go from the Federal Government so that we can spend a few million federal dollars building a monument to his/her sacrifice.

And we need to try the sequestration again to see what new fat we can squeeze out.

That's not to say that federal workers didn't face some problems as a result of the sequestration, facing furloughs of up to 10% of their time and salaries.  I personally know of people who lost income during the sequestration.  But on the up side, they had extra days off for fishing, and they were forbidden from putting in any extra time that they would ordinarily do, like answering e-mails from home, or staying late.