Descriptions like this always make me laugh! To determine whether the salary is appropriate, you have to answer a question: "What does the 'average employee' do?" And there is no real answer, because the federal government employs neurosurgeons AND janitors. A few years back, when I actually looked into the federal salary issue, I discovered that many of the higher paid feds (surgeons, engineers, etc) were actually earning less than they would have in the private sector, while the lower paid feds (janitors, secretaries, etc.) were paid more than the private sector (but only a fraction of the $100k figure quoted here).
Anyone actually wanting to get federal spending under control is wasting their time, arguing about salaries. We should be cutting entire departments - shut down Education, Interior, etc., etc., etc, and terminate 100% of their employees. Let the States handle whatever real work they might have been doing, and any of the former feds that want to work can apply for a State job...
Democrap institutions is all they are now.
Read The Declaration and you will know it applies now more than when it was written. The federal government is out of control, existing only to perpetuate itself.
“The rest have been legislated into existence by Congress, going far beyond anything the Founders ever imagined.“
Not really. When the founders imaginations got into gear they added the second amendment. It was all they could do, really…
Trump has talked about it. The federal government is the universe's largest monopoly, and the 600,000 or so denizens of its headquarters, Washington, D.C. -- a city the size of Mission Viejo, California -- purport to manage a nation of 333,000,000 people.
Start fixing it by eliminating all federal agencies created during the late-'60s and early '70s mainly to placate rioting hippies. That ship sailed long ago.
Then, after more pruning, quarter the remaining agencies in logical locations. Move Commerce to New York, Interior to Denver, Agriculture to Omaha, Energy to Dallas, etc. Enrich the economies of those cities and states nearest to their function, instead of trying to "govern" them at massive expense from hundreds and thousands of miles away.
Adam Andrzejewski died at 55 following a sudden medical emergency. I suppose he could have just had an ordinary heart attack but given his being the founder of a government watchdog group and all the sudden deaths these days, I go “hmmmm”.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Maybe someone could list them.
Some fundamental changes need to be made to the executive branch of government.
I’m betting the USDA is a close second with the DoD as far as corruption & waste.
One must argue that is precisely what congress has done. I argue that Congress no longer possesses the power to reign in or dissolve an Agency. As the article states indirectly, Congress is so powerful it cannot ever find out how an agency's funds are disbursed. We have the fig leaf of an elected government and the actuality of hidden tyranny. All protected by marxist revolutionaries under the disguise of the demonrat party and their associated businesses.
The new Leader of Argentina won an election promising to abolish all the BS agencies.
I hope President Trump will do the same...saving billions of dollars and saving America from Communism.
“So long as I can remember, every Republican president has promised to get rid of the Department of Education. Great. But why does it never happen? I would like to know the answer.”
Maybe because we elect PRESIDENTS, not dictators.
Play video games?
They make more then $100,000 and do not have to do a good job.
I would like to see a Elon Musk type fire 80% of the people like he did at Twitter.
There was no loss of service at Twitter when he did so.
This article tells the TRUTH about Federal agencies. Read it and share it.