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Obama budget calls for largest federal civilian workforce since Cold War
washington times ^ | 2/2/15 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 02/02/2015 10:30:23 PM PST by Nachum

The federal civilian workforce will reach its highest level since the end of the Cold War under the budget President Obama submitted to Congress on Monday, surging by more than 100,000 employees over the next two years as he tries to restock agencies he says have been decimated by GOP-led cuts. All told, Mr. Obama will have added more than 160,000 civilian workers to the executive branch since he took office, putting him on pace to top President George W. Bush for the biggest expansion in modern political history. When civilians at the Department of Defense are discounted, Mr. Obama

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: budget; cold; deadonarrival; economy; obama; war
Kill the Military, Hire your friends
1 posted on 02/02/2015 10:30:23 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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2 posted on 02/02/2015 10:30:48 PM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

Sounds like the way things are run in Venezuela

http://www.eluniversal.com/economia/150202/venezuelan-govt-expenditure-grows-53-in-2014


3 posted on 02/02/2015 10:38:30 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Nachum

America needs jobs.

Stop sending American jobs to China, then Obama would not have any reason to do this.

Bring back American jobs.


4 posted on 02/02/2015 10:40:23 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: Nachum

Yeah, gotta fill up them UNION coffers.

Guess I was right .. I said that the infrastructure was to help out the UNIONS .. just like the stimulus did.


5 posted on 02/02/2015 10:44:20 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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To: CyberAnt
Holders people on the job "Navigating" Obamacare clients.


6 posted on 02/02/2015 10:56:58 PM PST by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: spokeshave

“and this is the White surcharge you will pay to subsidize my peoples healthcare givesmedats”


7 posted on 02/02/2015 10:58:55 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Nachum
Reminiscent of Adolf.
8 posted on 02/02/2015 11:00:04 PM PST by justrepublican (Screaming like a "Vexatious requester" at a Wellstone memorial...........)
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To: GeronL

I got an idea!

The government can hire every working age person. Tax their pay at 75%.

Raise the budget to $10 trillion!


9 posted on 02/03/2015 12:03:34 AM PST by tdscpa
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To: Nachum

It would take more than a couple hundred thousand federal welfare cases to handle Obama’s golfing and vacation arrangements. Michelle could do it, and stop messing with our food.


10 posted on 02/03/2015 12:15:47 AM PST by pallis (I like white people)
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To: tdscpa

Yep, fag terrorist marxist muslim will not come out the closet outright.


11 posted on 02/03/2015 12:23:09 AM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: tdscpa

If it works in theory!...


12 posted on 02/03/2015 12:39:17 AM PST by GeronL
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To: Nachum

we need all those new clerks to hand out checks to all the millions of former workers Obama has pushed onto welfare


13 posted on 02/03/2015 1:24:05 AM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..)
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To: Nachum
The federal civilian workforce will reach its highest level since the end of the Cold War ..., surging by more than 100,000 employees over the next two years as he tries to restock agencies he says have been decimated by GOP-led cuts.

Now, THAT is funny. GOP-led cuts? Funny stuff.

14 posted on 02/03/2015 6:15:26 AM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Nachum

Obola’s Jobs Plan....tax the middle class out of existence...to feed his behemoth Government workforce.


15 posted on 02/03/2015 6:16:49 AM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Nachum

A classic punish your enemies, reward your friends statement.


16 posted on 02/03/2015 6:45:34 AM PST by Taxman (I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!)
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