Since WWII the US has experienced a number of recessions, and some of them pretty severe. In that time Washington has experienced none and has grown to the extent it has become a malignancy so large it threatens the very existence of our nation. It’s well past time for emergency surgery to greatly reduce the size and scope of our national government, but alas, it will not happen because Washington is only concerned about Washington. Americans need to remember government doesn’t create wealth, it consumes it. Once it consumes beyond a certain point, there’s nothing anyone can do to stop the slide to economic oblivion.
BEFORE Biden hired 87,000 IRS agents/employees . . .
04/14/2019 - The Hill
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The sheer size of our government workforce is an alarming problem
After eight years of reckless expansion of the federal workforce under Barack Obama, Donald Trump vowed to downsize the wildly growing bureaucracy of Washington. In 2016, he promised to “cut so much your head will spin.” However, during the first two years of his presidency, there has been no significant effort to reduce the bloated federal payrolls. In fact, the federal government is the largest employer in the nation.
Walmart, which has a presence in communities of all shapes and sizes, is the largest private employer in the nation with 1.5 million workers.
Yet the number of Americans who rely on the corporate giant for their livelihoods is dwarfed by the number who rely on the federal government for their paychecks.
The federal government employs nearly 9.1 million workers, comprising nearly 6 percent of total employment in the United States.
The figure includes nearly 2.1 million federal employees, 4.1 million contract employees, 1.2 million grant employees, 1.3 million active duty military personnel, and more than 500,000 postal service employees.