"John D. Giorgis" wrote:
>
> >If you had been watching the debates you would have heard Gore bragging about
> >reducing the number of employees by 300,000. It is now smaller than in any
> >administration since Kennedy. Independent sources have confirmed this
> number.
>
> Sorry, but this is not totally true...... the number of employees is an off
> way of measuring the size of the government. As it is, the US is
> employing less GI's, and also is hiring *a lot* more contractors. Toss
> the contractors back into the mix, and the government still looks as big as
> average.....
>
Jeeze, then what is a measure of government getting smaller? Did you see
Dan's figures on employees per 1000 citizens? And isn't the transfer of more
jobs to the private sector part of the idea?
Doug
