Let me see...Obama increased the size of government with over 30 czars, 16,000 new IRS agents, and over 100,000 new federal government employees (not to mention more debt that all the other presidents before George Bush combined) and NOW he says he wants to reduce government by combining departments. I don't hear anything about cutting staff.
It must be an election year and he thinks the typical voter is pretty stupid.
Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
Since I can't prove a negative, can you show when these 16000 agents were hired?
http://www.factcheck.org/2010/03/irs-expansion/
"The Office of Personnel Management tallies are done every quarter, not every month, so the numbers don’t exactly match what you find on the BLS web site, but the trends line up. In round figures, from September 2009 to September 2011, the federal workforce grew about 100,000. Counting permanent civilian employees, the departments of the Army, Air Force, Navy and Defense grew by 53,000 -- more than half of the total. Veterans Affairs provides another 24,000, or about a quarter of the overall increase. Homeland Security contributes 12,000 -- call that another 10%. All told, national defense, assisting veterans, and protecting the national borders account for close to 90% of all federal civilian employee growth.
The high water mark for government employees was in 1969 when there were 2.3 million workers. The number today, about 2.2 million, is less than during the second term of President Ronald Reagan. The low water mark came at the end of the Clinton administration but the 9-11 attacks put the country on an upward course during the presidency of George W. Bush."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...0-bureaucrats/
Wrong on the debt too. Back to your old tricks (a pun to boot)
We are able to calculate the debt figures using the U.S. Department of Treasury’s "Debt to the Penny" calculator. Here are the public debt totals accumulated during the three periods we listed above:
* End of fiscal year 2008, when the accrued debt under the 43 presidents was $5.851 trillion, to Dec. 14, 2011, when the debt was $10.393 trillion. No, not more than the previous 43 presidents combined.
* Obama inauguration, when the accrued debt was $6.307 trillion, to Dec. 14, 2011, when the debt was $10.393 trillion. No, not more than the previous 43 presidents combined.
* End of fiscal year 2009, when the accrued debt was $7.506 trillion, to Dec. 14, 2011, when the debt was $10.393 trillion. No, not more than the previous 43 presidents combined.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...h-debt-almost/