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3/4/2009
Congratulations: You're Hiring (250,000 New Bureaucrats)!

With the economy struggling, it's nice to see someone hiring – you. Yes, you, the taxpayer. According to the Washington Post, President Obama's massive $3.6 trillion budget proposal is so expansive that "tens of thousands of new federal government workers" will be needed to do… whatever it is government bureaucrats do.

The Heritage Foundation estimates the number of new federal bureaucrats to be hired could be as many as 250,000. From the Post:

"The $3.6 trillion plan released last week proposes spending billions to begin initiatives and implement existing programs, and given Obama's insistence that he would scale back the use of private-sector contractors, his priorities could reverse a generational decline in the size of the government workforce.

"Exactly how many new workers would be needed remains unclear -- one independent estimate was 100,000, while the conservative Heritage Foundation said it is likely to be closer to a quarter-million. …

"If the outside estimates are realized, Obama could spur a government hiring spree on a scale unseen since President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society agenda in the 1960s."


Another way of looking at it is this: at a time when Americans are worried about their own jobs, Democrats in Washington want to raise their taxes to give government jobs to other people.

Next thing you know, Democratic leaders will want us to pay for people who can't afford their mortgages too… oh wait...

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