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Trump making good on promise to shrink government
American Thinker ^ | 01/01/2019 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 01/01/2020 7:12:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: Sacajaweau

That article cites old data. In January 2017, federal employmnent was 2.810 million. In November 2019 it was 2.829. Part of the recent increase and decline in the most recent months is related to Census hiring.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES9091000001


21 posted on 01/01/2020 7:49:55 AM PST by oincobx
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To: SeekAndFind
Should we call it Preparation T or Preparation G?

Oh, I guess Preparation H is still applicable after all...

22 posted on 01/01/2020 7:50:33 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: SeekAndFind
(piggy-backed positions unnecessary)
23 posted on 01/01/2020 8:06:05 AM PST by yoe
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To: SeekAndFind

Unless Trump shutters some of these agencies the next president will just rehire. Its a viscious cycle.


24 posted on 01/01/2020 8:07:16 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: SeekAndFind
President Truman was unenthused, resenting Congress's impingement on his ability to handle foreign affairs.

Truman disliked the CIA too, after he was out of office. So he had some inkling how this could end up with a USA Gestapo (which, by collaborating with the FBI to frame people and spy on citizens is where it has been headed). “I think it was a mistake. If I’d known what was going to happen, I never would have done it. Eisenhower never paid any attention to it and it got out of hand. It’s become a government all of its own and all secret…that’s a very dangerous thing in a democratic society.”

But then again, he hated the USMC for some odd inexplicable reason.

25 posted on 01/01/2020 8:14:04 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Move Department HQ to Anchorage—the problem will solve itself!


26 posted on 01/01/2020 8:27:57 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: SeekAndFind
I suspect that the swamp is very deep at the NSC. Trump is right to purge it of the stench of obama.

"On May 26, 2009, President Barack Obama merged the White House staff supporting the Homeland Security Council (HSC) and the National Security Council into one National Security Staff (NSS). The HSC and NSC each continue to exist by statute as bodies supporting the President.[3] The name of the staff organization was changed back to National Security Council Staff in 2014."

27 posted on 01/01/2020 8:29:45 AM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: Sacajaweau

Thanks, but not convincing at all. Often, government jobs are replaced with contractors, so the only evidence I believe the federal government is decreasing is if the budged actually shrinks, which will never happen.


28 posted on 01/01/2020 8:46:50 AM PST by Dave W
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To: fruser1

The government has not always gone up since Andrew Jackson. Here are 3 years when it didn’t. 1922, 1923, 1928.

1922 was down 8% form 1921
1923 was down 0.8% from 1922
1928 was down 0.3% from 1927

But those cuts in 22 and 23 of 8.3% carried for several years. It was not until 1927 that the full 8.3% were back in the budget. Shortly after was the stock market crash. But before the stock market crash was the roaring 20’s

Who would have thought cutting taxes and paying down the debt would lead to a great economy?

Plug in the year to see the federal budget change here:

https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_percent_1922USdt_21ds2n


29 posted on 01/01/2020 9:15:21 AM PST by jimpick
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Sorry that should be 8.8% not 8.3% in my last post.


30 posted on 01/01/2020 9:16:39 AM PST by jimpick
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Our corporation one day decided to fire 1000 people from IT, and nobody noticed


31 posted on 01/01/2020 10:44:42 AM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: SeekAndFind

Okay, in one agency he has cut 330 jobs.

One!

He’s probably cutting other places too.

Let’s consider this also. If a Leftist were in there, there would have been 500 new hires.

I don’t see Trump get much credit.

Some of us seem too busy second guessing the guy to give him credit where credit is due.


32 posted on 01/01/2020 1:13:37 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Leftistist media and particularly CNN NEWS should come with a ten day supply of Cipro.)
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To: SeekAndFind

330 people from the NSC ain’t chicken feed. And how many of those were agent provocateurs, spies or just in general deep state butt heads?

Cutting out whole agencies is going to be tough row to hoe, even with the help of Congress.

And how likely do you see that happening right now? Still, relocating them out of town is within his purview.


33 posted on 01/01/2020 1:35:23 PM PST by AFreeBird
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