you’ll have to do ten times that just to offset obama’s increases inteh deficit. you bet it’s a start, and a pretty poor one at that.
Hope he is addressing current spending.
Ok, so they sign the tax cut extension bill with 300 billion of additional welfare funds, after they said they would make cuts, now they come up with only 150 billion?
Since landslide victory and pledge to cut spending.
300 billion - 150 billion= 150 billion additional spending
Boy we are off to a good start. Almost the the guy who looks across the street and sees 3.30 a gallon of gas and says “wow that’s great the gas station by me is 3.45”.
Also, cutting 10% of the Federal workforce doesn’t even get us back to FY2006 levels...
As a percentage of the employed working age population in the country, as of November just to return to the long term average the Congress would have to eliminate something approaching 20% of the workforce.
Will try to find the article on private/public employment ratios using (employed working age population) as the denominator from November/December, will post it when I find it in my bookmarks.
FOr now, here is another god article (check the links in article too)
“The chart below (found also here), from Big Government contributor Veronique de Rugy clearly shows that federal employment has grown by 98,000 jobs since the start of the recession. This bears repeating, because lefty columnist Paul Krugman is furiously spinning that the increase in employment is due to Census hiring. Krugman:”
The federal workforce might first feel the wrath of the new GOP-run House’s budget cuts