800,000 employees and no one misses them

[Serpo]

what a waste of resources;D

[Shami-Amourae]

Employees? You mean parasites.

[Serpo]

more of a relief not having them sucking out your life blood

[woodman]

When we complain about taxes, we should also be thankfull we aren't getting all the government we are paying for. I'd rather they wasted my money and sat at home like the welfare recipients they truly are.

[Ares]

Just like all leaches, a good dose of table salt will remove them.

[gunny highway]

I'm sure there's a couple million more we won't miss.

[Ponce]

So way collect taxes this year?.....war?

V

[Hatha Sunahara]

These are the 'imperial place holders'. The objective of all bureaucrats is to 'build an empire'. They do this by inflating their organizational objectives, and hiring a staff to meet these inflated 'work requirements'. The more staff you have, the higher the grade you can achieve in the bureaucracy. Staff is not hired to do any actual work. They are hired to justify the inflated grade levels of those who hired them.

If you assume that it takes five extra staff to justify one grade increase, say from GS-12 to GS-13, then you have at least 160,000 more 'supervisors' who are non-essential and should be let go. But the total number of 'non=essentials' is really much higher because everything works in reverse during a 'de-imperialization'. The number of non essentials is grossly understated. So, to begin with, assume that the 800,000 non essentials are understated by half, then the real number on non-essentials is 1.6 million plus sbout 320,000 imperial supervisors who themselves are non essential, so you have about 1.9 million federal government employees who nobody will notice if they are gone. Their salaries are effectively, welfare payments.

Now, this analysis does not take into account the staffing needed to administer some non-essential laws, and to pursue non essetnial programs like wars on drugs, terror, and other nations. We could have far lower expenses for administering the government and a far more civilized society if we just stopped pretending we are fighting these wars. The wars are nothing but giveaway programs for profiteering cronies of the politicians and bureaucrats.


Hatha

[ximmy]

Freeway was beautiful again today. Federal workers not missed here...

[Silver Rocket Bitches!]

I was a IT contractor for the EPA back in the day and the amount of waste and stupidity I saw was mind blowing. I went to a director's desk to fix an issue he was having and right there on the screen was gay porn. He rushed in to hurry up and close the window but it was too late. I could not unring the bell. Stories abound of these leeches running their eBay businesses at work and spending their time sipping coffee and bullshiting. Maybe 10% actually did work. And their budgets. They weren't like corporations who give bonuses when a manager saves money. Instead, they were punished by not spending the money by having the budget decreased in subsequent years for not spending the whole amount. So the status quo was to use the whole budget then complain it wasn't enough so the budget was bumped up next quarter. This was back in 1999 so I could only imagine how awful it is now. These furloughs suck for the employees but it shines a spotlight on the waste the gubmint incurs day after day.