The Federal government’s role is not to provide jobs, but to perform only those duties enumerated in the Constitution. It is obscene for a organization with an IRS, a bevy of regulatory powers, and a military, to put itself in competition with the private sector which it is supposed to protect.
Thought experiment: If every ten civilian Federal workers were required to vote one of their number off the gravy train and divide his former duties among the remaining nine, wouldn’t they select the most useless?
The word “decimate” means literally to kill every tenth member of your organization. Well, all we’re talking about here is jobs, but the selection method for a decimation is just as valid now as it was back when the Romans did it.
I can’t think of a more effective continuous improvement program than to limit the size of the workforce by continuing to hire talent, but beginning to fire dead weight. And at any rate, I am confident I would survive a 10% useless bastard haircut for the federal workforce.
