Only a few steps away from Swiftian satire. First we abolish the "welfare state" forcing single mothers to give up their children to survive. Then we collect the orphans into Dickensian orphanage work camps. After their productive value is exhausted, we eat them! A positively literary solution.
I mean, yeah, the town has a long history of timber processing and, lumber production, and building with wood. They don't call it Stumptown for nothing.
Previous shutdowns didn't have a guy at the head of OMB who stated his intent to "traumatize" public employees, so it does seem a little different this time.