Nearly every sizeable company could run efficiently with streamlining and fewer employees. It’s amazing the caterwauling that goes on when anyone suggests the federal government could do likewise.
I can’t speak for all govt. agencies, but DoD is already running on a skeleton crew. Defense has been RIFfed, force-shaped, and BRAC’d to death. Most workcenters that had 20 people running things 10-15 years ago have 3-4 people today. Couple that with no budget and you have a serious problem. Zero dumped a trillion dollars on his fair-haired-boy agencies while DoD continues to get told, “There’s no money, there’s no money...”
So I guess I’m one of the ones caterwauling about downsizing. It’s because I give a fat crap about the defense of our nation and realize that freedom isn’t free and defense isn’t cheap. Do you know what we get when we run the military on the cheap? We get what we have now: our superiority in military jets and naval ships is gone, the Russians have caught up and the Chinese are hot on the trail. We’ve gutted our nuclear forces while China is building up radically. Russia and China are flying shiny new jets while our best are 15-20 years old. Our premier bomber, the B-52, is 60 years old.
China is planning a war with us. At the rate we’re going, they will murder us when we’re finally weak enough. Wanna live in a concentration camp while your country is carved up and gutted by communists? Keep right on supporting this crap.
“Nearly every sizeable company could run efficiently with streamlining and fewer employees.”
Not only that, but 7 of the wealthiest counties in the US surround DC and the number of employees who earn three figures has doubled in the last two years and the average worker is paid more than the average private sector job. The employees make more than the employers. It won’t be long before the roles are reversed and the pay disparity is even higher.
The top 10 list of wealthiest counties:
1. Loudoun County, Va.
2. Fairfax County, Va.
3. Howard County, Md.
4. Morris County, N.J.
5. Arlington County, Va.
6. Montgomery County, Md.
7. Nassau County, N.Y.
8. Somerset County, N.J.
9. Calvert County, Md.
10. Charles County, Md.
Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds.
When the recession started, the Transportation Department had only one person earning a salary of $170,000 or more. Eighteen months later, 1,690 employees had salaries above $170,000.