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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
they have a plan, just that they don't want to tell anyone, if they did, it would give ammo to the left because it will not be popular
The biggest part of it is to stop government growth, thats what Reagan did I think. Then they need to go thru all the programs and figure out how to do it better.
In the government, there is a lot of management of management, there is a big chunk of what needs of a going thru and thinning the cost
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I will agree with you about the management of management parts of government. The government will always hire four people to do the work of two.
As for Reagan stopping government growth. . . well. . . when he took office there were just under 16 million government employees in the country. When he left office there were just under 18 million. So he added about 2 million jobs to the government payroll (interestingly enough big government Clinton only added about 200K more government jobs during his presidency than Regan). While only about 400K of the workers added to the government payrolls during Regan's presidency were on the federal level, Clinton actually reduced the number of federal government employees.
I think most people will agree that the government grew in size under Clinton. But to me the numbers show that it grew by about the same amount under Regan.