Now that the unemployment rate has dropped to a level unseen for 50 years, even minorities are seeing the best employment picture ever.
The growing, multi-Democrat candidature contends that the way to lessen the rising national debt is to stick it to Buffett, Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos and the other very wealthy and instituting additional taxes on everything, including breathing.
Here's an idea. With employment opportunities so much better, why not reduce our overburdened, excessively costly and less-than-efficient federal workforce by, say, 20%?
As the job market is doing so well, as we are assured by the media, all these once-massive numbers of individuals, continually receiving raises but with little worry about dismissal, should find no problem in acquiring positions in other industries.
Preferably this would reduce the multiple levels of supposed management staff and the constantly politically created new agencies to administer or oversee the next politically engendered federal program.
Based on what we are being told by those who may or may not actually know, we could possibly save $350 billion a year or, in 10 years, approximately $3.5 trillion.
Although the first time we hit $1 trillion in national debt was 1983, we've a long way to go. Still, it could be the right direction.
James F. Oshust, Millcreek
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