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If you go back further it’s even more stark - there are 5% fewer Federal employees than there were when Clinton took office, overall population is up 30% and re
by mikeyouse 3y ago
If you go back further it’s even more stark - there are 5% fewer Federal employees than there were when Clinton took office, overall population is up 30% and real GDP is up like 120%:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1cCLR https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1cCLR
- jonhohle 3y agoI wouldn’t imagine a government needs to scale proportionally to the population much like a business shouldn’t need to scale proportionally to its customer base. Most businesses should be able to handle twice as many customers with fewer than twice as many employees.