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.
So fine, no cuts, ever. How is that. Work for you?
If you can’t get what you want, stand in the way of those who are doing the work. Demoralize and criticize those who are starting to get the job done.
Good idea.
You are the type that secretly hope that the budget gets worse because complaining and griping is what gives you the greatest joy in life.