We haven't been hearing much about it on the FR or on talk radio becuase it flies in the face of the narrative, but reality is that the federal workforce has been shrinking, a lot, and for a long time.
I was curious about this one, since I have seen that essential government functions are being cut (in favor of increasing wealth redistribution). But when I saw the article, it was whining about Bobby Jindal's clean up of bloated state government agencies in LA, not cutting back on the essential functions.
Although the whole article was whiny and critical of Republicans who want to cut spending, it had this little gem in it: "Since the recession hit, private employers have added five million jobs and the government has lost 323,000. The country has recovered from the recession. But public employment has not."
From where I"m sitting, it looks like the private sector picked up over 4.5 million jobs, for the small price of cutting less than half a million government jobs. If those 323,000 former government employees can't find employment with those millions of new jobs, just maybe they aren't looking hard enough?
We haven't been hearing much about it on the FR or on talk radio becuase it flies in the face of the narrative, but reality is that the federal workforce has been shrinking, a lot, and for a long time.