Think about how much more the federal government is tasked with doing since 1960.
When I hear virtually every reporter and Democratic politician issue a disclaimer in every discussion of the DOGE cuts that “of course the government is too bloated and needs to be cut, we just need to do it more thoughtfully” I want to scream. It is NOT bloated. Considering what it is tasked with doing for the American people it is actually too lean and we should be hiring more people not firing them.
Yes, there are the proverbial $1000 toilet seat examples in the defense department and I’m sure there is some “waste fraud and abuse” elsewhere as there is in any large organization. But the idea that there are too many workers is ridiculous. And I’m afraid we’re about to find out just how ridiculous that is.