First off, you completely misread my post. I said get rid of 25% of Washington, DC staff. That means the fat a$$es in Versailles on the Potomac who do nothing but suck us dry and would rollback some of the hiring of the last two years. Second, I’m not taking any workers retirement away. That part refers to the parasites in Congress.
Secondly, I read your post as advocating doing nothing. THAT IS NOT AN OPTION. A bankrupt government owes nobody, nothing - federal workers, the elderly and welfare recipients, included.
Finally, everyone is going to be hurt. Seniors are already without a COLA for two years, despite doubling of gas prices, hikes in food costs and paying taxes on money stolen from our paychecks. How about somebody else paying some? How about a minimum income tax of say $1000 for the 50% who pay ZERO income tax?
There are probably 100,000 or so people who work in DC, public and private.
You didn't tell us which.
So what are you talking about?
I'll give you a chance to rework this ~ frequently federal employees themselves differentiate between "Headquarters and Regional employees" and "field employees". Then you have organizations like the FBI who have the greater part of their Headquarters folks working in West Virginia. It's pretty much the same with Homeland Defense ~ they don't work here ~ just a handful of people.
When it comes to appointees you typically have the 11 federal reserve cities with their operational headquarters stacked to the ceilings with appointees.
What you need to do is study the structure of the federal bureaucracies and see whose in DC, whose in the near in suburbs (Arlington, Montgomery County, Fairfax, etc.), where are the military commands situated, what about the difference between the Pentagon and some other federal facility when it comes to involvement in directing operations, or doing political bidding, etc.
Not all the people who cause you the problems you think you have are located in DC. Fur shur your letter carrier and the defense analysts at the Pentagon (which is not really in DC anyway) aren't creating those problems.
BTW, most of the folks bothering you the most would take those jobs FREE OF CHARGE. Capping their salaries, or their knees, wouldn't keep them away!