It's pretty simple to save money/cut costs. You look at whatever governmental agency your dealing with and find out how much the budget is (requires a study), where the budget is spent (requires a piece of paper x100), which jobs are required to function and operate effectively and efficiently, and which jobs are not providing substance to it's mission. That's where the cuts should be. They're just deleting jobs to show people a number and it's eat it up like it's a good thing when in fact it's just a show... Some of those probationary jobs were/are skilled positions lol.
You guys have fun, I'm not gonna argue what simply takes common sense and removing the blinders.