Scoot would you say that the federal government has 1,000,000 employees at least? SO we reduce that number by 30% aka 300,000. (You see I am doing the math for you math mathimatically challenged who thought they could afford a 500,000 dollar house on a 30,000 dollar income.) 300,000 times lets say 100,000 when you add up salary and benifits equals 30,000,000,000. If mathematically challenged cannot understand that number that is thirty billion already. Now you will come back with the "yeah but these folks pay taxes too", well yes in a way they do, but in reallity they are only giving back some of the tax dollars that were givin to them. So if you look at a tax rate of say 20% on these folks, who are now in private jobs paying actual REAL taxes, there could be another 6 billion subtracted from the deficit.
Get it? Or is that to complicated for you?
I would imagine that the folks who cannot understand this are the same ones who listened to the "financial advisors" when the stock market was tanking to "ride it out" I myself buy low and sell high, I win every time.