I’m gonna need a new bingo card.

I would not clap too early as we might get hit by another plane on the runway.

Exactly.

New rules: we clap when the door opens at the gate. Anything sooner is tempting fate.

Incredible. Running the government like a business by *checks notes* destroying the Accounts Receivable department.

This will show up in the March report, to be released on April 4. Why not in the February report, coming out March 7? Because that asks for employment in the pay period including Feb. 12, and the firings were nearly all too late for that.

To be clear: Even greater damage will be done by the loss of federal government productivity. The workers who are losing their jobs were worth more than they were being paid! We are all poorer when roads, planes, and food are unsafe, when parks are closed, etc.

Add on to that enormous private market uncertainty - how could you hire in these conditions? - and this is going to be very, very bad.