Do you think there are no costs to getting these things wrong?
If your boss fired you today and then called you up next week saying they'd made a mistake and offering you your old job back how charitable would you feel?
When funding for cancer research gets cut, do you think the studies that lost their funding can all suddenly pick up where they left off if funding comes back at some point in the future?
When jobs ensuring safety are cut, even if they're brought back, are you ok with the additional risk during the time period they're off the job?