Big Government? Obama Has 273,000 Fewer Federal Employees Than Reagan
Big Government? Obama Has 273,000 Fewer Federal Employees Than Reagan
Every single Republican today talks about being a Reagan conservative. This is a conservative that believes in small government, reducing federal spending and ultimately runs a lean and mean government. They talk about this stuff in campaigns, but in practice they failed miserably.
In fact HISTORICALLY, it is has been Democratic presidents who have reduced the size of the federal government. The Republicans have lied to the people so much that I believe the current crop somehow BELIEVES the history as they have been told, rather than researching the facts for themselves. This may be a stretch, but I am trying to give them the benefit of the doubt.
According to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, which tracks the number of employees per year, the data shows that the “conservatives” for small government are really just big government conservatives. I know that is an oxymoron, but numbers don’t lie.
Let’s start with President Carter.
On December 31st 1976 (Not Carter’s term yet), total nonmilitary personnel was 2,883,000. By December 31st 1980 the end of his term (minus a month), the total in nonmilitary personnel was 2,875,000.
Federal government nonmilitary employees shrunk by 8,000 employees under Carter.
http://www.politicususa.com/en/big-government-obama-reagan
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The father of all modern conservatives - Edmund Burke - would mock these jokesters and tricksters that claim the title as nothing more then cheap ambulance chasers and pompus bureaucratic garbage collectors. A man, that was strongly for the Union and against British rule. I dare say the word conservative should be taken away from the GOP as a banned word from their vocabulary. If anything...Repukes have learned how to be 'liberal' in their nature on our economy - spend, spend, spend, spend and fuck the future generations. We don't see anything close to a conservative imo in modern politics. Just flim flam artists selling shoddy snake oil to the poor working class.
I knew what you meant Octafish...but can you imagine if Obama ends up with a more conservative record then Reagan (which he will)? It will be something I bring up everytime a relative croons about RWR I can assure you. 
while Clinton slashed 250,000 federal jobs during his tenure.
I blame the lamestream media for continuing to shill the repuke crap year after year as if it were factual. They do truly follow the oxymoronic credos that if you say a thing enough times, it "must be true". 
