how about 15-20 % paycut for fed employees not in the military?
A more positive thing to do would be to cut them off the payroll entirely...but, either one of the moves will/would be deflationary especially with an economy that is 70% driven by consumer consumption. There are a lot of federal employees.
I read an article yesterday that stated that the USA had 107,000 fewer students in school K-12 last year but that the teacher count increased nationwide by 87,000 last year.
Wonderful, huh?