lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

True, but still a start would be welcomed !

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

Hence my freeze on hiring and reducing staff by 30-40%.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Yeah, we do. Rush (and others) have been saying for years that we can never appease the left nor compromise with them. I cannot count the times I've heard Rush say, "They must be defeated." The left will flat refuse to deal with the right unless they set the premise, and then they will not budge an inch. The RINO Repubs have yielded, succumbed or surrendered every time. The liberal progressives are insatiable, their lust for power and control knows no bounds. Give them an inch and they want the tape measure, give them a mile and they want the entire highway. I have yet to see the liberals win a fight then rest on their laurels, they always want more.

I will say that it is heartening that Trump is bringing some tough guys and gals from outside the corrupted government swamp, maybe we'll have a chance now, who knows. Way I see it the new guys in town don't need to know how such a corrupted system works, they just need to know how to kick some political ass. Of course, Trump does have at least one insider, Sessions, whose record as a prosecutor and the Alabama AG has proven he has no problem kicking ass.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

The number of government employees now exceeds by over 9 million the number of employees in private sector manufacturing. The numbers at last count = 21,995,000 (govt) to 12,329,000 (manufacturing)

The government is getting really really big, folks, and astronomically expensive to run---projected cost is 3.6 trillion to run the government next year, but we're only expecting to collect 2.4 trillion in taxes, a 1.2 trillion dollar deficit. And, it costs $1.4 billion per year just to run the executive branch.

It's way past time for a humongous trim job, this runaway train must be stopped.

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

As a generalization, my contention is 40% of federal employment is the biggest welfare scam in the nation.

mcmlx

Absolutely true.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Add their past IRS DEBTS and it's no wonder there is no money for the country debt!!
Let you or I owe a penny and we're hounded until it and interest and penalties are paid...

So right you are, Blade...

WASHINGTON — Federal workers and retirees owed more than $3.5 billion in unpaid taxes last year, a $200 million increase over the previous year, the IRS said Tuesday. Almost 305,000 federal workers and retirees owed back taxes as of Sept. 30. That's down from 318,000 the year before.Mar 24, 2015
IRS says thousands of federal workers and retirees owe $3.5 ...

archie bunker Loc: Texas

During a government shutdown non-essential employees are sent home. That seems to me to be a good starting point across the entire gooberment.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Sure it is if sent home with a pink slip!!!

mcmlx

If they are non-essential, what are they there for in the first place?!

archie bunker Loc: Texas

There ya go!!

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

They are essential to the membership of the Public Employees Union, which makes them essential to the Democratic Party and a liability to U.S. tax payers.

PaulPisces Loc: San Francisco

While I don't know enough about the number of people required to run the government to weigh in on how manymight need to be trimmed, I do know this:

The corporate kleptocracy that has been enriching itself by buying government are the ones who have been sending jobs overseas. Without those folks being employed by the government we'd see a lot more unemployment than we do now.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

What? Wait! Now you're confusing me Paul. We have constantly heard about how Oblama brought umemployment so far down, and how great the economy is. What is the proclaimed unemployment number? Something like 4.9%? If that were true, it shouldn't be necessary for taxpayers to pay people to sit around, and watch porn on taxpayer computers with taxpayer funded Internet service.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

Thankyou for your input. There is information there I was not aware of