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To: Road Walker who wrote (300153)	8/18/2006 11:35:18 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1572946

I notice you didn't provide any data, but you always ask for it. -- OK I'll give you some data - "Smallest Government Workforce Since the 1960's. There are 375,000 fewer employees in the Federal government workforce than in 1993 -- giving us the smallest Federal workforce since the Kennedy Administration." pearlyabraham.tripod.com OTOH "Between 1992 and 2000, the Clinton Administration cut national defense by more than half a million personnel and $50 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars. The Army alone has lost four active divisions and two Reserve divisions. The number of total active personnel in the Air Force has decreased by nearly 30 percent. In the Navy, the total number of ships has decreased from around 393 ships in the fleet in 1992 to 316 today. Even the Marines have dropped 22,000 personnel." heritage.org And that's just the actual military personnel. You also have to add in the DoD civilian personnel cuts. I thought they might be necessary to make my statement "As for employment, Clinton was able to cut the military (including civilian DoD employees), if you drop out those areas federal government employment increased under Clinton." true. But it turns out that I could have left out the "including civilian DoD employees", and it still would have been true.