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White House falsely claims recent ‘dramatic expansion of the federal workforce’

iguanaman said:
You have failed to prove your case so you decided to be condescending instead. There is nothing in your links that show a "dramatic expansion of the Federal workforce" and you know it.
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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”
― Plato
 
iguanaman said:
You have failed to prove your case so you decided to be condescending instead. There is nothing in your links that show a "dramatic expansion of the Federal workforce" and you know it.
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“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
― Plato
 
iguanaman said:
You have failed to prove your case so you decided to be condescending instead. There is nothing in your links that show a "dramatic expansion of the Federal workforce" and you know it.
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“Humans see what they want to see.”
― Rick Riordan
 
iguanaman said:
You have failed to prove your case so you decided to be condescending instead. There is nothing in your links that show a "dramatic expansion of the Federal workforce" and you know it.
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“We are all born ignorant, but you work hard to remain stupid.”
― Benjamin Franklin
 
iguanaman said:
You have failed to prove your case so you decided to be condescending instead. There is nothing in your links that show a "dramatic expansion of the Federal workforce" and you know it.
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“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
― Abraham Lincoln
 
poweRob said:
The truth... it alludes this administration right out of the gates. Mr. "Alternative Facts" guy has now spewed this whopper:

White House falsely claims recent ‘dramatic expansion of the federal workforce’

White House spokesman Sean Spicer was only a few minutes into his press conference Monday afternoon before he made a statement that appears unsupported by the facts.

Listing three executive orders signed by President Trump on Monday morning, Spicer said the president “issued a memorandum outlining executive branch hiring … that counters the dramatic expansion of the federal workforce in recent years … in particular it prevents filling vacant positions and creating new positions except where necessary to meet national or public security responsibilities.”

The order, he said, does not apply to military personnel and “ensures that the American taxpayer gets effective and efficient government.”

It is an article of Republican faith since the New Deal that Democrats have expanded the federal workforce, but statistics do not bear this out, at least in recent years. According to this chart from the Office of Personnel Management, federal civilian employment was 2.094 million in 2009, President Barack Obama’s first year in office, and 2.079 million in 2014, the most recent year reported. Excluding the Department of Defense, the workforce remained almost exactly steady at 1.357 million.​
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why does it shock anyone that this group in the whitehouse would lie?
 
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