Carl Orton wrote:

What are you going to do - fire everyone for awhile then
try to hire them back?

Congress used to try that at the nuke plants at Oak Ridge every election. My
father was an atomic health physicist there. We almost wound up moving to
California just before one election and to Brazil during another. Union Carbide
(the contractor there) would try to have very public layoffs at one of the
plants and very private rehires at others to let the congresscritters get their
points for cost control and keep their people at the same time.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.