[okie01]

Ya gotta love it. No talk about firing a bunch of bureaucrats who do little other than write regulations that strangle the economy, jobs, and a robust future. Oh Hell, no. Instead, they would choose to fire people who actually are trying to secure this country.

Everybody who has ever run a business knows what it's like to have to cut costs.

Indeed, outside of Defense, they're having to cut costs by, what, 3%? After having gotten a 6-7% budget increase from the previous year? And we're not talking short notice -- they've known this was coming since, when, July, 2011?

So, given that kind of notice and the relatively niggling amount involved what the hell kind of managers are they that they can't find enough efficiencies, redundancy and waste to perform the same functions within a slightly smaller cost frame?

Truth be told, the administration should be ashamed for their publicly proclaimed incompetence! And the media reveals their own ignorance by not calling them on it.

There is not a manager at any level in the private sector who hasn't had to deal with a problem of this nature and similar scope. Most have handled it.

And nobody in the federal government can...???

[econjack]

Obozo loves his Executive Orders, so why not use one and hold a press conference and say: “As of today, every agency except for the military and border patrol has a 10 percent reduction in staffing costs. If you cannot provide equal or better service with these reduced funds, I will find someone who can. Have a nice day.”