Posted on 10/03/2013 1:36:14 PM PDT by ColdOne
For all its downsides, the budget stalemate has helped shed light on a pressing question -- which parts of the government can Americans live without?
The partial government shutdown effectively has forced every agency in Washington to answer that question. Ahead of the budget deadline, agency heads were ordered to figure out how many employees would be deemed "essential" in case of a partial shutdown.
The results (which can be viewed here) give a glimpse into how important, or not, dozens of federal agencies and departments are to Americans' everyday lives.
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Just keep the nonessential things unfunded.
Beautiful.
We may not even need a debt limit increase.
Harry Reid said he won’t cherry pick which agencies to fund and which ones to not fund. Government should fund only the cherries and nothing else. If it’s not a cherry, we won’t fund it.
The military and the Dept of Justice and probably the Treasury. Nuke the rest.
Exactly....tell us when you find a cherry, Harry.
+1
While it is somewhat sad that so many government “workers” are not essential, the rest of us can’t keep making jobs for the unessential slackers and unproductives.
If we were really tough with Harry, we’d make him put some whipped cream on top of the cherries.
seeing nasa can’t get an astronaut on anything except a commercial flight, and I’d say that capability is questionable at best, i’d say they are pretty nonessential right now.
Lincoln was plagued by jobseekers the entire time he was president.
Eventually the government resolved the problem of clamoring parasitic claimants by making “featherbedding” a systemic practice.
It has become institutionalized. Time to phase it out!
Cut the non-essential. Job audits for the “exempt” where they are given an opportunity to show their worth to the republic.
We should be able to do this in a peaceful manner.
The deadheads can go out and get real jobs like the rest of us. Oh, and no ‘back-pay’ for sitting at home on their assets, as they do at ‘work.’
With Dirty Harry it might be a little boy ....
If the lapse lasts more than 1 week, the total number of employees working at some point during the shutdown would be approximately 242 FTE; approximately 3,983 employees would be furloughed.
I think I found a budget buster with room for more cuts. It's not that they need less that 10% of their staff for essential services; they need less than 10% at some point in time to shut down their overwhelmingly non-essential services.
There is waste in all departments.
EPA was held to be 94% nonessential, and the Dept of Ed was about the same.
The problem is the Senate has not passed a budget as required by law. The House has, and now they can pass funding bills, department by department, that fund the government in accordance with the House Budget, or perhaps a bit less.
Fiscal responsibility.
Promises that can’t be kept, won’t.
Outsource it to SpaceX
well, the Dept of Justice minus A.G. Holder
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