We could simply do without a full 80% of non-military government employees.
Anyway, with ZERO bottom line to maintain and nearly ZERO accountability, government employees tend towards laziness, inefficiency, low productivity, and incompetence.
If I have just gored any Freeper government employee’s ox, I’m so sorry, but it is what it is. American business over the last two decades have been forced by the marketplace to increase productivity — do more with less — while the bloated government bureaucracies demand MORE and MORE turf and employees, and their employees demand ever-increasing salary, benefits, and a GROWTH PATH for EVERYONE. Fooey on them.
And don’t even get me started about GOVERNMENT UNIONS. Why in the world do GOVERNMENT TROUGH-FEEDERS need a LABOR UNION? I’d like to see a Constitutional amendment PROHIBITING unionization of ANY AND ALL federal employees. And hopefully some states would also get the clue and do the same!
AMEN Brother! It's not just the Feds either. Here in central IL we pay sky high property taxes, much of which go to suppor the local govt worker defined benefit retirement plans. Those of us in the private sector generally have to pretty much bank on our 401K's doing well to even have a chance of a decent life in retirment.