Cutting Government Positions

 

What most people don't know. Our federal government employees' salaries take up only a tiny proportion of the federal budget. Our spending on employees is relatively small. In FY2022, the federal government only spent $271 billion to pay 2.3 million civilian workers. In FY2024, our federal government spent $6.9 trillion. Do you really think cutting this tiny portion of federal salaries will make a dent in our federal budget?

Our national budget is really just an insurance company with an accompanying military expenditure. The majority of spending is mandatory in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, not employees' salaries but payments to citizens. It's like insurance.

This attention to our minuscule federal workforce is misplaced and disastrous for our citizenry because it takes away from the real problem, which is the extraordinary shift in wealth in this country from the working and middle class to the rich. The country's focus should be on the revenue side.

There are two sides to a budget—revenue and expenditures. Trump's focus on expenditures results in the mass media losing sight of the revenue side. - disastrous tax cuts for the rich by Reagan, Bush, and Trump that have increased our national debt. And allowed a few people to amass enormous wealth, leaving the rest of us fighting for scraps. The top 10% of Americans own 70% of the wealth in this country.