Jack of Harts

I said before that there are around three million federal government workers. They were told over the weekend to reply to an e-mail saying five things they did the previous week and that failure to respond would be taken as a resignation. In reaction to being asked to show their work, they screamed and cried and protested the idea that they had to show their work. The response was to say that the e-mail is partially a test to see how many people actually read it and reply to it, because it is doubted that all three million actually exist. Approximately one million employees responded. Interestingly, one million is how many employees the federal government had a century ago. Going back to the size of the federal government of a century ago sounds like a good start to me. Then we can start looking at actually important cuts.