After four years of a responsible administration simply not replacing those federal workers who either retire, die, quit or get fired should reduce total nonmilitary headcount in the federal government by about 20%
If you’re at all like me, you must have said to yourself hundreds of times in your own life “I just don’t have the time to do everything. I can’t get everything done.” And we always say that like it’s a bad thing.
But is it a bad thing? It depends largely on context, at least in my opinion.
Let’s just say that you’re the President of the United States. You need to shrink the size, and massive cost, of government. Obviously, entitlement spending would be a great target but trying to reduce payments to entitlement recipients would be political suicide.
