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Friday, August 05, 2011
Republican Senators Want To Shrink The Size Of Government By 15%
A new Senate bill would extend the federal pay freeze until the end of 2014. The Federal Workforce and Reduction Act of 2011 would also freeze bonuses, including performance and recruitment bonuses, for the same period and reduce the federal workforce by 15 percent in the next decade. The bill is sponsored by Republican Senators Orrin Hatch of Utah and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, who said their proposal would shrink the size of government "to a fiscally-responsible level."
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We need to shrink Government by 25%
smoke and mirrors in an attempt to both demonize feds and act as if they are doing something. The fed workforce is experiencing the same demographic shifts (an even more pronounced) as the rest of the nation, which means these folks are leaving the payrolls in the next decades in droves ALREADY!
Too small a cut, too long to get it. 20% now is necessary to survive.
2:25&2:27 Amen
transpose those #s to 51% - that would be more in line.
It's a good concept to want to shrink the size of the federal gov't, though once again the plan is to do it on the backs of the workers. A pay freeze until 2014? In the meantime, costs will continue to go up for the affected workers.
15% for this year would be a good start.
50% would stop the debt clock.
"In the meantime, costs will continue to go up for the affected workers."
Costs have continued upwards for the rest of us, including those who are not working for the feds, if at all.
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