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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is what republicans do when they "cut deadwood"

Fire people at the agency they hate most, usually amounting to small dollars.

Put in some loyalists with know expertise who screw up. Hire contractors to fill the gap.

This will be used as an excuse to expand the military, which is big bucks.

The problem is that the [b]bureaucracy is about 1.5 million jobs nationwide.[/b]  Many of which are workers you will exclude because they are important to you. . As soon as you do the math, it adds up to symbolic gestures and nothing more. [/quote]

PP, why are you posting false information?  It take 10 seconds to look up the actual number of non-military federal workers and it was 2.8 million as of 2011 according to OPM.  Twice the figure you quoted.   I've worked in the executive branch, legislative branch and at a independent federal agency, and every one of those organizations I've worked in could cut 15% of their non-performing workforce tomorrow without any loss of capability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_civil_service[/quote]
Absolutely. I worked in government for a year and was bored silly without enough to do. The only time I felt fully productive was when my co-.worker went on vacation for a week, and if had to do both her job and mine. It wasn't hard - it was simply a full day. There never should have been two of us doing that work, but my boss was a GS-15 and "rated" two people, so he took it. I'm sure that went on all over the place, with all sorts of unnecessary overstaffing.[/quote]

Honestly, it sounds like you weren't trusted to do the work.  Not everyone is cut out to do government work.  People who make flip arguments and don't bother with details about things they think are inconsequential can do a lot of damage that someone else has to fix.[/quote]
True. Not everyone can stand the bureaucratic red tape, the redundancy, the waste, and the snail's pace. I quit and started my own business, working seven days a week at the start, and being accountable for my every decision. It was the opposite of government work, and I was thrilled with my venture. Felt I was accomplishing something rather than "hold back" so as not to make my co-worker look bad. She sat there all day, talking to her BF on the phone.[/quote]

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