Cutting Bureaucratic Bloat
Despite the great temptation to write one such article as this one for every bureaucracy in the United States government, I have no desire to spend the remainder of my life treating on any one subject as this. As a result, I will pick the most recently announced employment cuts, those projected cuts that the State Department announced recently. As I write, the speculation is that the cuts will number roughly 1,100, or roughly 15% of the current workforce of 80,000 bureaucrats who are on the taxpayer dole. And while we are talking numbers, we should note that 80,000 people is enough to station 400 State Department employees in every country on the face of the earth. Granted, a large chunk is employed in Washington, D. C., but still my point holds: that is an excessive number of employees, even taking into account the per capita deployments based on such factors as the sizes of foreign countries and our strategic interests in those countries. Average Salary and "Burden" ...