” . . . today’s fed payrolls are about half what they were when Reagan was president . . .”
In the context of this article, that statement is only meaningful if we know if you’re including military personnel as those on “the fed payrolls”. Are you?
The problem isn’t with the military payroll - those folks are underpaid as it is. The problem is with the money spent on the unelected bureaucrats who try to run our lives.
Ah, somehow I thot that we all understood together that the U.S. gov't employs military personnel. Let's agree on that.
...problem isn’t with the military payroll - those folks are underpaid as it is.
Understand that military personnel are a third the fed workforce and the percentage has been rising for a couple decades.
The problem is with the money spent on the unelected bureaucrats
While most folks would probably agree w/ you on that we have to agree that we're really not talking about all fed civilians. Like, (like I said in post #1) we don't want to fire all the border guards. Same for Dept. of Defense civilian employees. We need to keep our foreign intel folks on the job. Let's not just open up all the fed prisons. We don't want the air traffic controllers fired w/o talking first about who replaces 'em --and if the work goes on contract then some fed employee needs to write the contract and administer it.
Campaign rallies may be fun but getting work done takes a bit of effort.
