Repug Economics 101: What do you do when private hiring is low? Cut the federal payrolls, of course.

[marmar]

from the WaPo:




White House beancounters would have to keep close tabs on the number of federal employees on the government payroll if a Republican proposal to trim the federal workforce advances.

Three leading House Republicans on Monday unveiled the details of plans to replace every three federal employees that depart with only one new hire, in hopes of trimming the workforce by 10 percent by 2015 and fulfilling a key element of the House GOP’s 2012 budget plans.

The estimated $127.5 billion proposal, unveiled by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and colleagues Dennis Ros s (R-Fla.) and Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), comes after President Obama’s bipartisan fiscal commission suggested cutting the federal workforce by 10 percent, an idea adopted by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as part of his wide-ranging budget plan.

The legislation introduced Monday lays out how the cuts would occur. ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/house-gop-unveils-plan-to-cut-federal-workforce/2011/06/06/AGlGqKKH_blog.html

[HughBeaumont]

1. Oh yeah, and the ever-popular "cut entitlement spending" . . .

. . . NEVER "end the lottery for the unneeding, and frankly, undeserving rich" or "end the useless occupations and defund the Penta-hole", the two biggest money vacuums on the books. NEVER put money in the hands of the people who most need it, because then your economy wouldn't be zero-sum like the wealthy want it to be.

No, let's continue to be the laughingstock of the world instead of the example.

[pinboy3niner]

2. GOP jobs progrm: Cut jobs

What else is new?

[HughBeaumont]

3. As soon as "Ohio Needs JOBS" Kat$hit got in as governor (by the plaque on his teeth) . . .

. . . the first things he did? Close departments, cut jobs and supported Senate Bill 5, which defangs bargaining and striking and makes it easier for employers to fire people.