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And develop new paperwork and forms and procedures to make their lives "easier" - so they need to hire more help to keep up with the new stuff!

Continuing .gov circle-jerk. Government cancer (uncontrolled growth of cells)

Take Florida, for instance. Want to see a crock full of schit, start studying Florida homeowners' property insurance. Classic case of .gov aiding and abetting white collar insurance criminals and thieves.

Most families around the country would consider what I pay yearly in property insurance a very good yearly household income.

Fuggin ridiculous.

Didn't obamba have 15k new IRS workers hired to admin the ACA?? Wellll, fire their asses posthaste. Voila!!!

A hiring freeze is an okay stop gap solution but a bad long term one. The long term solution has already been brought up regarding silencers.

Reduce the size of government overall, get rid of any government program that is not essential* along with tons and tons of regulations and you won't need as many people to do the work.

Government workers run the same gamut as the private sector - mostly. You have your small percentage of top performers, a larger percentage of dead weight and the rest fall in between. Due to affirmative action and the difficulty of firing the dead weight the bottom tier is probably bigger than it is in private life but it doesn't mean all government workers are useless.

As to which programs are necessary and which aren't, lots of people feed off of the government teat. The people that benefit from those programs are not all worthless leeches either, but they have gotten used to sucking on that teat. Taking it away is the painful side of downsizing government but it has to be done. We can't keep taking money from everybody, filtering it through a huge amount of labyrinthine regulations and giving out a smaller part of it to fewer people. That's what's gotten us where we are.

Besides, if there is money to be made offering a service or product that the government now offers someone will assuredly take up the slack to make that money and they'll do it in a competitive market where they have to be efficient to stay in business. Private employers with private employees paying taxes instead of public employees eating up those taxes is a win-win. And if no one takes up the slack for a cut program it means there was no real demand for it in the first place.

And that's just talking about government provided services. We haven't even started looking at the mountain of regulations and red tape the government has piled up on the backs of private business. How many people does the government employ just to guarantee that all of the proper forms are posted on break room bulletin boards nationwide? I'm sure a lot of folks here can give examples of stuff they do just to fill out government mandated reports or meet some other ill thought out, one size fits all regulation.


Just reduce the amount of government programs- and really reduce the amount of regulations piled on the private sector - and you automatically reduce the need for so many people to run and administer them.





*obviously not the military or something like that, we have look at each program and not toss out everything willy nilly.