Kiyosaki’s Alarm: Mass Layoffs as Shutdown Threat Buzzes

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I found myself scrolling through Robert Kiyosaki’s latest manifesto the way you stare at a roadside billboard advertising “beach bodies by Tuesday”-squinting, skeptical, and somehow compelled to nod along while sipping coffee that has cooled to the color of a used teabag.

Kiyosaki Sounds the Alarm on Job Security Amid Government Turmoil

Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, has always made a habit of turning slivers of financial panic into better storytelling than most dinner party recaps. His message this time: the traditional job is a delicate, perhaps decorative, item on a shelf you can’t reach without a stepladder and a prayer. In other words, the office is a raft built on a tidechart, and the tide is rising every time Congress fidgets with the budget.

He shared on the social platform X on Sept. 25, in a post that reads like a fortune cookie dipped in diesel:

Government shut down? Mass firings? Are you in line to be fired? Got the message? Job security is a joke. May be time to consider being an entrepreneur… not an employee. Take care.

The famous author’s alarm sounds as the U.S. faces the possibility of a federal government shutdown. If lawmakers fail to reach a funding agreement, hundreds of thousands of federal employees could be furloughed without pay, while key services like national parks, veterans’ programs, and health inspections may be suspended. It’s the kind of threat that makes you rearrange your desk chair and pretend the stapler is a disruptor in a real recession movie.

Economic reports, including the monthly jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, would be delayed, adding to the market’s unease. The last shutdown in 2013 furloughed about 850,000 workers, and the ripple effect was basically a nationwide game of telephone-“What did you say your job was again?”

For Kiyosaki, the standoff underscores a broader proverb: relying on job security is like trusting a flier taped to a lamppost during a rainstorm. The rain wins, the flier dissolves, and you’re left explaining to your mortgage why your plan was to become a pirate and buy a small island. He has long advocated for entrepreneurship, asset ownership, and financial literacy as the true routes to independence, while warning about fiat currency, the weakening dollar, and the looming possibility of economic collapse. In true fashion, he urges hedging with assets like gold, silver, and bitcoin-which he often calls “people’s money.”

And perhaps in the end, we all just want a quiet life in which the biggest risk is misplacing our keys, not the fate of the global economy. Still, if Sedaris ever decided to write about finance, it would probably include a chapter about how a man with a well-thumbed copy of Rich Dad Poor Dad can still be surprised by a calendar with dates that shout, “payday!” across a landscape of invoices and coffee-stains ☕️😂.

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2025-09-28 04:58