Originally Posted by hawndog
Originally Posted by jwalker77
Originally Posted by hawndog
Originally Posted by jwalker77
Heres the elephant in the room question. How do you drastically shrink govt without cutting jobs? You dont. We voted for him so he would shrink the govt. Hes doing it. It sure dont sound as pretty when its your job or a friends job getting cut. 100s of 1000s of people will lose their jobs. This is what we voted for.

You cut budgets. Can’t spend what you don’t have. Cutting jobs without cutting budgets will not save a dime.

You do understand all those jobs cost money, right? Money that is factored into a budget?

That is not how it works. Agency’s get money. People are paid from that. If they still get the same amount of money, they will spend the same amount regardless of how many people are working.[ yes that could mean layoffs, but it will be by the people that know who needs to be cut, rather than the indiscriminate firings that are taking place.


I think its illegal to spend government money on something it's not budgeted for. In other words, if they have an HR budget as part of their total budget, and you cut the HR expenditures, they can't spend those $ on something else. If I remember governmental accounting properly. It was NOT a class I enjoyed!!