If the size of government is reduced, where are people with Social Science degrees going to find work? There are not enough fast-food restaurants to employ all of them.
Reduce by 95%. I have been saying this for as long as I have been on line. ALL the Departments, Commissions, Agencies, and other divisions of the bureaucracy have to go down to the original four Departments of the Cabinet i.e. Attorney General, Treasury, State, War/Defense. NO functions of any of the cancelled departments to be folded into the remaining four. State to be only the Secretary and ambassadors. If we could do that then the Republic would be resurrected and would survive. I don’t think it can be done.
That comes under the heading of "not my problem."