[muawiyah]

BTW, firing the federal workforce in the manner you described gets you down to about 240,000 postal letter carriers, no army, no navy, no airforce, no missile force, no coast guard....... and you'd still have more than a trillion dollar deficit.

Not to rub this in but you haven't informed yourself enough on these matters to make comments.

[Jim from C-Town]

NONMILLITARY.

Get the governemnt out of the areas it should NEVER have been and the country can absorb all the effective and useful governemnt workers into a booming economy quite easily. Both of them!

[Reily]

again... all

The problem is NOT the number of federal workers or agencies. These are minor almost insignificant problems compared to the growth in entitlement programs. Fire every federal worker, fire the armed forces, close all government agencies and sell all federal land, we still go off a financial cliff due to entitlements!
Entitlements MUST be reigned in and the mentally to demand them must be decisively repudiated.

[OldPossum]

As regards this comment you made to Jim from CTown: “Not to rub this in but you haven’t informed yourself enough on these matters to make comments.” Your comment covers about 90 percent of the typical Freeper comments on federal employment. Generally, they, unlike you, know nothing about the subject but that doesn’t stop them. Hell, their feelings govern everything.

[dinodino]

How about we eliminate the Post Office entirely? Also HUD, Education, Energy...