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Old 08-01-2011, 07:43 PM   #368
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Yes there are many essential government jobs and it would be foolish to cut away without considering the impact. But there is room to cut. The size of government has ballooned in the last ten years. It is highly unlikely that all those increases were essential.
If only there were data for this...

5% over the last decade... if you're counting at home, that's 0.5% annualized. Percentage-wise, that's roughly half the growth of the population at large.

The horror.
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