What!! Wasteful Govt at its finest. Thank god for Trump. These little cash cows are coming to an end and this is why so many are out to get Trump.
Yep. Lots and lots of make-work paper shufflers are going to be looking for work over the next four years.
And, people who manage the make-work paper shufflers will get consolidated ("Dave, we've let go 75% of your dept, so it's getting folded into Bob's team. We need to let you go, too....")
Most likely, a lot will be handled through attrition...."Before retirement, Mary did an excellent job of managing her team of paper shufflers for the past 30 years. Her $100K job, plus benefits, will not be re-filled, Bob will be handling her duties from here on."
Don't get me wrong, there will still be an enormous bureaucracy kicking around when Trump is done.... but it will be a whole lot smaller. I'd imagine many of them will find their way into academia, to milk that cash cow for awhile until it, too, runs dry.
And jeez, 1200 manhours to shuffle useless forms? That's one person for a half-year. Or, more likely, three people for 10 weeks, and the rest of their time is spent doing something equally useless.