The report is from Fox News and it is based on a Congressional Budget Office study which Republicans in the House requested.
we can go back and forth all day long:
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-02-02/opinions/35445334_1_federal-employees-private-sector-federal-workforce
I will reiterate once again. I am for cutting the budget and decreasing the deficit, as are many of my co-workers. Although it has personal impact, hopefully it will not hurt the mission. We worry about paying our bills but also about those we (as a nation) must not abandon in faraway lands.
There is huge bloat in the government, and they have a tendency to recklessly spend money (collected from you and I) to fund all their pet projects, impress their constituents, and payback political favors. Technically they have no limits. They just steal more from us and redistribute it. It must stop!