Government continues to shrink
 

Pentagon belt-tightening will cut thousands of jobs - Aug 2010
Gates to shut major command in Va. that employs 5,000 people

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WASHINGTON ? Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday that tough economic times require that he shutter a major command that employs some 5,000 people around Norfolk, Va., and begin to eliminate other jobs throughout the military.

The announcement was the first major step by Gates to find $100 billion in savings in the next five years. Gates says that money is needed elsewhere within the Defense Department to repair a force ravaged by years of war and to prepare troops for the next fight.

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:2 cents: Nice continued steady reduction of government. No more need to wish for that I guess. Seems like with the mass job cuts they did last month, and the ongoing reduction, we'll be down to a conference room and a box of Krispy Kremes in no time.

Continues to shrink? Its been growing non stop

How does government grow and shrink at the same time?

damn, did their printing press break down?

Maybe someone over there finally realized we're $52,972,540,113,678,201,338,224.03 in debt.

that will be a revolution

well, that's just great, cutting jobs instead of canceling a couple cruise missiles getting built.

Maybe they could start by shrinking some of the 700ish US military bases that are in 130 countries around the world.

Bring our fucking troops home

Think of the government like a pile of shrunken heads. The more heads are shrunken, the larger the pile gets... shrinking and growing at the same time.

Lets start firing IRS agents then I'll smile

If we adopt a policy of crushing the skulls like Skynet does, would just be a fine layer of powder instead of a pile.

You think the phrase "more heads are shrunken" is grammatically correct?

Good enough for government purposes.

Cool, now I feel vindicated. Thanks!

no no... the govt cant be shrinking... fox news told me how big the govt was getting...

you must be lying... the govt is growing and growing out of control..

especially the services that help spy on us and take more control...

blasphemy i tell you, blasphemy...




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Government and its evil and isidious control over our lives has shrunken not a bit. Some jobs have gone away which may slow down the monster but that is about it.

Attmepts at more government control will continue and civil rights will continue to be eroded despite the job cuts.



Sally.

The only thing SHRINKING in this thread is your penis AMP.
Lol what a dumb shit.

they should work on improving service too
had to deal with local courts today with the bf
That place must be staffed by PMSing old cunts, jezus

the only nice helpful person was an older Haitian lady who just kept talking and talking and explaining everything in detail. At the hospital it's the Haitian ladies who give the best care, no wonder all the old people here hire them

/rant

fed is growing
military is shrinking
State is shrinking

Read this,
http://www.house.gov/jec/growth/function/function.pdf

Amputate forgot to conveniently mention that the public sector jobs in Washington are increasing. So much for facts. :)

That ain't the government shrinking at all.

That's a military base shutting down. Military does not equal Government.

The government at every level is way too big and way too involved in too many things.

True, but the money to pay those people comes from the gov, which comes from us. So in terms of smaller government equaling the gov spending less, I'm down. At least until they spend it on something else. So what's that.... about a 3-minute window of bliss? :winkwink:

They can't.

The US uses 1/4 of the world's resources, and needs remote strength to ensure continuation of supply. If you wrap up the US influence around the world then the US will either need to do the unthinkable .. reduce consumption of resources, or will suffer from countries and administrations being able to decide where to allocate and where to sell their resources.

AMP,
WOW, talk about spin.
The people that work for the GOV are.
I am sure they will be replaced with a CZAR.
Come on man, even you have to see this is the workers getting cut, not the GOV! AND NO it wont save money, they all get Unemployment forever, LOL

Here’s George Bush’s list of Czars he used from January 2001 to January 2009:

Abstinence Czar (Randal Tobias)
AIDS Czar (4 Czars: Scott Evertz, Joe O’Neill, Carol Thompson, Jeffrey Crowley)
Bank Bailout Czar (Neel Kashkari)
Bioethics Czar ( Leon Kass)
Bird flu Czar (Stewart Simonson)
Birth control czar (Erik Keroack)
Budget czar (3 Czars: Mitchell Daniels, Joshua Bolton, Rob Portman)
Clean Up Czar (2 Czars: Jessie Roberson & James Rispoli)
Communications Czar (Dan Bartlett)
Cyber Security Czar, Cyber Czar (2 Czars: Richard Clarke, Rod Beckstrom)
Democracy Czar (Elliott Abrams)
Domestic Policy Czar (Karl Rove)
Drug Czar (John P. Walters)
Faith-Based Czar, Faith Czar (4 Czars: Don Willett, John Dilulio, Jim Towey, Jay Hein)
Food Safety Czar (David W.K. Acheson)
Global AIDS Czar (2 Czars: Randall Tobias, Mark Dybul)
Health Czar for WTC, World Trade Center Health Czar (John Howard)
Health IT Czar (David Brailer)
Homeland Security Czar (Michael Chertoff)
Homeless Czar, Homelessness Czar (Phil Mangano)
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Czar, Hurricane Katrina Recovery Czar (Donald E. Powell)
Intelligence Czar (2 Czars: John Negroponte & John Michael McConnell)
Manufacturing Czar (2 Czars: Albert Frink & William G. Sutton)
Policy Czar (Micahel Gerson)
Public Diplomacy Czar (2 Czars: Karen Hughes & James Glassman)
Reading Czar (G. Reid Lyon)
Regulatory Czar (2 Czars: John D. Graham & Susan Dudley)
Science Czar (John Marburger)
Terrorism Czar (3 Czars: Richard A. Clarke, Wayne Downing, John O. Brennan)
War Czar (Douglas Lute)

that doesnt count he wasnt black.

I guess when I hear about size of government, I think of the size of the bureaucracy. Which is just plain ridiculous these days.

That's the other side of it, sure. I believe there's clearly not enough regulation. (Wall St., Big Oil, Pharma, etc). Gov needs to step up in that area. That means more people will be required, but they'll have money from the people they just eliminated, so they can hire new people to fill the new positions they need to create more regulations. That right there is job creation folks, in action.

Another problem solved.

Government is never going to get smaller. It's a buzz word to get elected.

Contrary to popular myth, every Republican president since and including Herbert Hoover has increased the federal government's size, scope, or power - and usually all three. Over the last one hundred years, of the five presidents who presided over the largest domestic spending increases, four were Republicans. Include regulations and foreign policy, as well as budgets approved by a Republican Congress, and a picture begins to emerge of the Republican Party as a reliable engine of government growth.

Full article here...

http://mises.org/daily/895

Capricorn is lame...


Sabby:)

"Liberals" do not concern themselves with facts.

Sally.

Sometimes they matter.. sometimes they dont.


Sabby:)

It wouldn't surprise me if eliminating some jobs and hiring as many or fewer people in other areas would be spun by the gov't as creating jobs, lol. Not an Obama thing but a gov't thing...they all do shit to make things look better than they are.

So because you are bringing up republicans, it's ok for democrats to do the same? Pretty lame statement.
Obama has increased the national debt 25% in 18 months
Obama has increased the size of the government the same
And last I checked, he's not a republican, lets focus on the present instead of blaming the past and get something done.

Yet the economy , jobs, wars , those problems are still there and don't look like they are going to improve any time soon

I don't think anybody pays attention to BFT3K on here. His only job is to deflect factual blame from the Democrats and to generally make a fool out of himself.

they also eat their young if the welfare check is late.

Find apples, pears, berries and other fruits growing outside on trees to eat for free.
Catch a wild rabbit or goose. It's possible to find food for free. Good luck.

I didn't say that at all. I was merely stating the fact that the republitards, who want people to believe they are for smaller deficits and smaller government, are simply full of shit... much like the demon is full of cum after one of his famous all-male gangbangs. :2 cents:

It's nice to know I'm smarter and more successful than people twice my age:)