Uzbekistan to save $250M by streamlining government...The number of government employees will be cut by 30 percent.

https://eurasianet.org ^ | Dec 28, 2022 | Staff

[EEGator]

Maybe I’ll vacation to Uzbekistan…

[Red Badger]

Better take some long underwear................

[EEGator]

Summertime…

[lump in the melting pot]

They could double the bang for their buck, lay off the 30% of gov’t employees who probably are russian FSB agents/informants.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "When a certain percentage of the population works for the government, there aren't enough non-government workers to pay the taxes to sustain the salaries of the ones who do. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES DO NOT PAY TAXES. They just think they do."

Completely correct. Taking from productivity via taxation to fund the commonweal REQUIRES that "taking" does not depress productivity in the process. The West, with its faux-Lefty "basic income" and welfare and disability and more, is laden with more takers than makers. The cause and effect are known, and to my mind accelerating in the wrong direction.

[Osage Orange]

Good post.

[nwrep]

Attaboy, Uzbeks.

[Mouton]

Think of the money saved here if DC was disappeared.

[Red Badger]

The city of DC should be turned into a museum, and the governmental agencies spread all over the country.

Dept of Agriculture to IOWA or NEBRASKA

Dept of Energy to TEXAS or OKLAHOMA

Dept of Education to KANSAS

Dept of LABOR to MISSISSIPPI

Dept of ................well, you get the idea...............

[Gnome1949]

Uzbekistan owns more than 300 buildings?

[Gnome1949]

I have long argued most of the federal employees in Washington DC need to be transferred to Quonset huts in remote North Dakota. Set them up in buildings on dead-end gravel roads with only basic desks and outside porta-potties. Install just one Internet port in each building for supervisor use only. Wherever possible, install one land line phone in each building and choose a building location beyond cell tower range.

[Four of Six]

“The notion that government can — and eventually must — be downsized is dawning on many, irrespective of political brand. When a funding game can no longer continue, it will not continue. Period.”

Any guesses on how much longer until California figures that out?

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Any guesses on how much longer until California figures that out?"

I wager sooner, rather than later. As the devastation of inner cities, their public places littered with the effects of vagrancy, drug use, mental illness and more, proceeds, that sort of Democrat inner city politics which professes to offer solutions but delivers only growing problems will self-destruct.