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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not like industry layoffs. They are dismantling your government. You may not care about federal employees as individuals but I am surprised at the lack of concern about  what this means.

Most Feds will find employment, perhaps not in the cities they are in at the current moment, but the longer term problem is the brain drain.[/quote]
I think a great many people feel the federal government is substantially bloated and don’t view it the same way as you.[/quote]

Often the same people who complain when they are on hold at SS or their refund does not arrive promptly or their highway does not get needed repairs...[/quote]

But isn’t that the point? [b]Feds are the largest employer in the world and nothing is efficient.[/b] It shouldn’t take a year to review SSDI. It shouldn’t take 20 years to extend the Silver line to IAD.

But it does and it did. Obviously the bloat isn’t making things better. Time to take another tack. [/quote]

Both the Indian and Chinese governments employ far more people than the US government. A friend who is an economist tells me that the US federal sector is relatively cheap compared to other western nations, mostly because a large part of US government workers are in low-paying jobs (airport screeners, phone answerers, forest firefighters, etc.).

In my experience it takes a long time to review paperwork in the US because to avoid lawsuits most paperwork being shared with the public gets reviewed by multiple people and often by multiple attorneys. [/quote]
More BS.

Indian and Chinese populations are >4x the population of United States, and they are nowhere near as automated in the govt as we are. They [i]should[/i] employ more people.

"US federal sector is relatively cheap compared to other western nations" - Not even close. The US Fed is ~30% of the annual GDP. And we're a >$20T economy. We're a LONG ways from cheap.[/quote]

Salaries and benefits to federal employees are not 30% of the GDP. Obviously. [/quote]

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