http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/02/burgeoning-federal-payroll-signals-return-of-big-g/?page=2
How big is to big, and how can we really afford this?
It would seem the only job market still hiring would be the Federal government.
How does one rightfully justify this growth number in federal employees when the States of the nation are flat broke and culling public service jobs with a vengeance just trying to keep their heads above water?
While Obama hires employees to oversee federal contracts over seas, the people at home are left to survive without adequate police and fire protection for their various localities. Libraries are cut and parks are shut, for the lack of tax revenue to allow them to stay open and run. City energy bills are being pared by cutting out necessary street lighting put in place to ensure people's safety.
These are just some of the sacrifices being made by the average city, The question is,
if WE" can no longer afford to operate our cities, then how can "WE" afford to sustain the size of the government, let alone continue to watch it grow?
If "OUR" cities must amputate off it's various appendages without anesthetic, then isn't it about time that "WE" demand that the government do the same thing
After years of decline at the end of the Cold War, the Defense Department is restaffing. Mr. Obama estimated that the Pentagon will have 720,000 employees this year and 757,000 employees next year - up from a low of 649,000 in 2003.
The data also show that the Department of Homeland Security will grow by 7,000 a year in 2010 and 2011, and the Veterans Affairs Department will grow by 12,000 in 2010 and an additional 4,000 in 2011.
Peter R. Orszag, Mr. Obama's budget director, also said more people have been hired to oversee outside contracts.
"Over the past eight or nine years, those contracts have doubled in size. The acquisition work force has stayed constant. It's not too hard to figure out that oversight of those contracts has not kept pace with what it should be," Mr. Orszag said.
Even as the total number of federal employees rises, the ratio of employees to Americans has declined steadily, from one employee for every 78 residents in 1953 to one employee for every 110 residents in 1988 to one employee for every 155 residents in 2008.
