There Are 22 Million Federal Employees. I Will Vote For Anyone Who Will Cut It To 5 Million. (Ron Paul, Congress)

[Yooperkat]

Why do you employ IRS agents when the IRS doesn't even have to exist?

Why do you spend billions of dollars on an education system that doesn't work?

Why employ people, and give them lifetime pensions, to recommend Turtle Tunnels? A fourth grader could do that.

Why build a bridge to nowhere?

High speed rail from Orlando to Tampa? You've got to be kidding.


Government is FAT, and it needs to be trimmed. Not with a scalpal, but with an axe.

[legalsea]

Originally Posted by Yooperkat

Why do you employ IRS agents when the IRS doesn't even have to exist?

Why do you spend billions of dollars on an education system that doesn't work?

Why employ people, and give them lifetime pensions, to recommend Turtle Tunnels? A fourth grader could do that.

Why build a bridge to nowhere?

High speed rail from Orlando to Tampa? You've got to be kidding.


Government is FAT, and it needs to be trimmed. Not with a scalpal, but with an axe.

Well, you are only 90 percent off. There are around 2.15 million Federal employees.

[theunbrainwashed]

Well, we know which candidates will do that, and which ones won't. Right?

[2e1m5a]

Vote Ron Paul 2012! First order of business, cutting 5 Government Departments and slashing Congress pay and lifetime benefits.

[txgolfer130]

Originally Posted by legalsea

Well, you are only 90 percent off. There are around 2.15 million Federal employees.

Bingo.

[Yooperkat]

Originally Posted by legalsea

Well, you are only 90 percent off. There are around 2.15 million Federal employees.

Saw it on a website. Not here to argue the number. My point is that is too large.

Although 2.15 seems a bit underestimated.

Regardless, the Federal obligation should be cut by 75%.


Waste doesn't make anyone happy, or better off.

[OddBall84]

Yep Ron Paul is the only one who has said he will do that.

[t206]

Originally Posted by legalsea

Well, you are only 90 percent off. There are around 2.15 million Federal employees.

2.65M

Federal Eye - How many federal workers are there?

EDIT: Sorry, just realized that was a 2010 figure

[theunbrainwashed]

Originally Posted by OddBall84

Yep Ron Paul is the only one who has said he will do that.

I thought Herman Cain said that? I mean, he makes motivating speeches and everything and 999!

[analyze_this]

Originally Posted by txgolfer130

Bingo.

And out of that 2.15 million, majority work for the DoD and related agencies. And employ millions of contractors.