re: I just looked and there are 2.3 million civilian employees of the Federal Government

We need 5 million agents

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The Feds are the single largest employer in the USA, let that sink in

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The Feds have not hired the best and most altruistic people to run the government. It could be argued that most of the 2.3 million petty functionaries are the real threats to the livelihoods of the 342 million approximate inhabitants.

Active alone is 1.3. Doesn't consider reserve and national guards.

shite. That's right. The military has almost 800 thousand civilian employees, the postal service over 600. Homeland security now over 200. Unbelievable

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The Feds are the single largest employer in the USA, let that sink in

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There are 258 million adults in US. That's basically 1 fed employee per 100 people, aside from state and local government employees. That's not financially sustainable.

Much of that is civilian DOD, which is the largest employer in the U.S.

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That's not financially sustainable.

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The real budget issues we face are much larger than this spending.

I'm not advocating for maintaining as large of a federal employment level as we have, but framing it in terms of spending/budget is a distraction from looking at the real spending cuts we need to make.

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Department of Defense: 770,900 employees

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I'm one of these and there is some fat to be trimmed for sure. However I think the majority of these jobs need to stay. A lot of them are experts in their fields and offer the continuity that is lacking the military.