The amount of Federal Employees totals over nineteen and a half million people.
Elon Musk reportedly fired around 80% of Twitter’s employees. Many of whom did absolutely nothing useful. You can't even tell that Twitter is any different in terms of functionality nowadays from then, despite losing that many people. This is akin to our government in many many ways. The unelected bureaucracy is like a parasite on the backs of the American people. Pysophing our hard-earned money for what amounts to drastic waste.
7,500 employees, which was approximately 80% of Twitter’s workforce.
Vivek has claimed that you could cut over 75% of the government. Imagine how much greater the country could become with this excess fat, as Reagan calls it, trimmed.
As of writing this, the current national debt is over thirty-six trillion dollars. This makes 1924’s debt of 394 billion look like chump change.
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The democrats have used the federal government as a make work jobs program for decades. Also, DOGE needs to cut a lot of government contractors that are also make work graft.
Yes.
A great percentage of government employees work far less than their civilian counterparts, and if anything, slow the efficiency of government processes. The fact you can’t fire them protects them from consequences for being crappy employees. And of course, that percentage of worthless government employees vote democrat for job security. Bet there is a rash of retirements going in right now.
NPR has been carefully dancing around the fact that this will effect 50,000 to 500,000 meanwhile having to say 50,000 is too many at the same time 50,000 won't be missed
if they were knowing accomplices.. RICO?.. cell phone data tracking?