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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]what do you think the right ratio of SSA staf  to retiree is?  1 per 100, 1 per 1000, 1 per 10000?  I'd guess 1 for each 1000 retirees.  for police (although this is local, not federal), I'd think 1 per 100 citizens.  For teachers, 1 per 30 students.  for ICE, 1 per 1000 illegal immigrants.

All this will add up to way more than 0.06%  [/quote]

I'm asking you, since you're the expert. I thought you already had this all figured out? That's why the other guy's 10,000 estimate is reasonable. He at least gave us a number, while you're over here trying to break it down by categories.[/quote]

HOW was the other guy's 10,000 "reasonable?"  He just made up some random number.  It is not based on anything whatsoever.  I asked him to name any functional country that has an equivalent ratio of 10,000 federal civilians to 330,000,000 citizens and he couldn't.  The reason you can't name any such country is because no such country exists.  Even barely-functional countries like Somalia and Ethiopia have more federal civilians than that.

I also asked where the notion came from that our government is so bloated.  Grover Norquist is the one who promoted that deranged ideology.  Our government is not bloated in comparison to most other successful well-functioning nations, in fact on a per capita basis it's less than half as big as most of the governments in Europe.  And even governments considered lean and efficient like Singapore and Switzerland have a higher per capita federal workforce than the US.  10,000 would make us less capable than the most backward of third-world nations.

So before throwing around opinions and random numbers, or repeating crap from people like Grover Norquist, you people need to start looking at numbers and the math and comparisons to other countries and to start understanding how things actually work.[/quote]

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