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Interesting. I just said almost this exact thing to my husband a couple of weeks ago - across the board 10% cut in all department budgets and staff reductions through attrition, retirements etc. It can be done. Easily. This from someone who has worked for two city governments. I've seen the "waste, fraud and abuse" and the laziness and ineffectiveness of more staff than you would imagine.
Boom: Trump Eyes 10% Spending Cuts, 20% Slash Of Federal Workers
Read the title and thought that was big news, but then read the article and realized it is 10% and 20% in some departments . So it can mean absolutely anything from 1 to 800 000 workers.
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Insiders said that the spending reductions in some departments could go as high as 10 percent and staff cuts to 20 percent
Would love anyone who claims to be about cutting spending to actually address the issue of the military-industrial complex being used as a pork laden jobs program for Congressmen. Tons of efficiencies to be realized there but nobody has the cojones to tackle that. Maybe we can get it down to just spending as much as the next three largest militaries combined instead and use the rest of the $$ to cure cancer, care for vets, rebuild our infrastructure, subsidize trade schools and state universities?
As would I.
Doesn't matter what side of the aisle they sit on, every time there is any talk about cuts, it's always "anything but what's in my district."
Someone else noted how many unwanted projects are being foisted on the military simply so that Sen. or Rep. so-and-so can maintain that s/he saved/brought jobs to his/her district.
The voters are the same.
Rail against all of those "lazy" federal workers while at the same time fighting to keep bases open because they contribute so much to the local economy.
It's like the TEA folks insisting that government not touch their Medicare.
If a government department or company with a government contract has money left at the end of the year, they make sure they spend it (waste it) so the next contract is not cut back financially. I know this, and most certainly Trump knows this.
From a past government job, I know it.
"End of the year, we need to spend the rest of the budget."
I'd support this since I live in state with great schools where it's hard to find a crummy district outside of an urban center. For the poor kid who wants to learn in Texas or LA and instead is taught creationism and anti-vax quackery, not so much.
Their biggest problem is usually the loud sucking noise of the money being vacuumed away for ESL illegal alien students.
I assume you live in a state that isn't overrun with non-English speaking children.
Boom: Trump Eyes 10% Spending Cuts, 20% Slash Of Federal Workers
So Trump ran on the platform of Jobs, jobs, jobs. This is his way of fulfilling that promise. Cutting 550,000 jobs right out of the gate?
And you bohunks are rooting for that?
Well, if he really wants to make a difference he can abolish his own position and that of his staff.
According to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), as of December 2011, there were approximately 2.79 million civil servants
So scooters, what's 20% of 2.8 million employees? What about their families? Add them in and your talking about almost 2 million individuals who have lost their means of survival.
Boom: Trump Eyes 10% Spending Cuts, 20% Slash Of Federal Workers
So Trump ran on the platform of Jobs, jobs, jobs. This is his way of fulfilling that promise. Cutting 550,000 jobs right out of the gate?
And you bohunks are rooting for that?
How silly. He ran on creating private sector jobs and cutting federal bloat which prevents those jobs.
It's not any more complicated than that.
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