Did you read the article? Did you think about what was being said or done?
Here is a quote from the article:
Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson agreed with Brady that these cuts are a start to fixing Washington’s spending problem and that this is a test of the 112th Congress’s “political will.”
“Cutting 10 percent of the federal workforce is a good first step to restoring fiscal sanity,” Wilson said. “If we can’t do this basic cut, then it is impossible to believe that the political will exist to make the cuts necessary to recover form the Pelosi-Reid spending binge.”
Maybe you should look up the word "start" and allow people to take a first step in a marathon rather than bitch and moan that they didn't leap the full 26 miles.
http://mercatus.org/publication/even-accounting-census-federal-employment-grows-during-recession
Here is a breakdown of Federal workers in Excel format:
http://mercatus.org/sites/default/files/publication/census-federal-employment-for-web.xlsx
Now tell me how taking a starting position of a 10% reduction is going to help when clearly they should have started near to 20% and negotiated down to 15%?
Somewhere out there there is a similar excel spreadsheet that adds in national population growth to maintain ratios of Federal employees per capita... I can’t find it atm. Non the less, 10% isn’t much more than a 25 month clawback in what needs to be a 10 year clawback in the Federal workforce.
in understadnm your position, but I’ve heard ‘start’ a little too often to be taken in by it. this isn’t a start, it’s s sop to the base. there won’t be any real spending cuts until they go to zero based budgetting, and real accounting principles.
any no cuts would be politically possible unless everybody gets cut the same.
i’ll beleive this is a start when the start at least gets us back to 2008 levels.
and there needs to be some concrete method of reducing the debt.