You could fire ALL the federal employees and the absence of their former salaries in the national tally would not make a mark ~ they round off things before they get to such a small number.
Say it with me — ENTITLEMENTS.
They make a very LARGE mark on the budget to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars a year. There are OVER 2 MILLION Civil Nonmilitary personnel in the Federal Workforce ALONE.
The Average wage is $74,400 per year / EXCLUDING Benefits and retirement That drives the cost to over $125,000 per employee.
Just the cost of their salaries and benefits are $250 BILLION a year. Only a Marxist president would consider a Quarter Trillion Dollars to be a small number.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs041.htm
That is BEFORE we provide them with an office, work environment, Cafeteria, buildings, office supplies, sexual harassment training, training on how to serf porn sights eight hours a day without getting caught, six weeks vacation and the hundreds of other hidden costs associated with employing a worker.
Everyone has had the pleasure of dealing with their fare share of government bureaucrats. They cost the real World endless headaches and an immense fortune every year.
We do need SOME Government workers. However, we should learn to live with half the number we have, earning significantly less money than they do now. Lower paid employees could hardly be less effective or less motivated to serve, or churn out worse results.
We could also SELL some of the thousands of buildings, vehicles, and LAND that the Federal Government has acquired over the last two hundred years.
It is always a laugh how every government worker ‘can make more money in the private sector’ yet almost none of them ever leave the public service. Fewer than 1/2 of 1% per year are let go. fewer than that leave on their own except to retire and double dip at another job.
Public service is called public service because they do the same thing to the public that a bull does to cows when he services them.
You could fire ALL the federal employees and the absence of their former salaries in the national tally would not make a mark ~ they round off things before they get to such a small number.