By now, we all know of someone that has been affected by the government shutdown and those of us affected know that it is an inconvenience. However, it is bringing some things to light on the amount of misuse in the government. I wanted to highlight a few of the numbers that I found most shocking as a taxpayer.

There are roughly 2,000,000 federal government workers. Of those, there were approximately 800,000 workers that were deemed to be “non-essential” and were furloughed. A significant number of those have been called back to work.

The government has been operating for two weeks now and with the “shutdown” roughly 83% (possibly up to 87%) of the government is continuing. This equates to roughly a $600 Billion savings in spending, if it were to last an entire year, leaving the government still spending nearly $3 Trillion, even if the “shutdown” lasted a full year.

The following agencies have furloughed more than 90% of their workforce:

• Internal Revenue Service – 91% about 86,000 employees - But really only taxpayer advocates and advisors. The auditors and employees who secure liens are still on duty as “essential for protecting property” (liens) of the government.
• Environmental Protection Agency – 93% about 15,000 employees – Can’t say that these furloughs should not be permanent given the regulations they are trying to pass.
• Housing and Urban Development – 96% about 8,300 employees - The federal government competing with private markets to ensure low-income housing in expensive cities.
• Department of Education – 94% about 4,000 employees – Because “No Child Left Behind” cannot administer itself.
• Securities and Exchange Commission – 91% about 3,500 employees – And even without big brother looking over the market’s shoulder, it has improved and no one has absconded with Grandma’s retirement.
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission – 95% about 2,050 employees – If government just pays everyone not to work (see the rise in disability claims/payments), then there is no need to pursue discrimination actions.
• FCC – 98% about 1,700 employees – Radios, TVs and Internet are all still working.
• National Labor Relations Board – 99% about 1,600 employees – Even the President has now said that workers cannot just stop work and shutdown a factory to have their demands met. This may be a permanent layoff with the new line of Democrat thinking.
• Energy Regulatory Commission – 97% about 1,400 workers – If these don’t come back soon, who will shut down coal electric plants so we have to pay more for renewable energy and blackouts?
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission – 96% about 650 workers – I have a friend that just left a position here, just in time, too. Again, the commodity markets are still running and trading.
• Consumer Product Safety Commission – 96% about 520 workers – Because the threat of civil litigation if there is product liability is not enough to deter marketing knives to toddlers.
• Export Import Bank – 97% about 370 workers – I am not familiar with this entity, but I have not seen reports of a huge run by other countries against our products, just the worry of default, which has been agreed by both parties, should not happen.
• National Endowment for the Humanities – 96% about 520 workers – A much better alternative is your local theater, seeing a favorite band, or going to Broadway. The private sector wins again.
• National Endowment for the Arts – 96% about 150 workers – Who will fund artists that place a crucifix in a jar of urine now?
• Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board – 90% about 100 workers – I am against this. I think that nuclear power/arms need to be inspected and secured.

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A few other numbers I wanted to share:

• The White House and President is only operating on a skeleton staff of about 450 paid employees. This is about 25% of the normal staff. President Obama has had to do with out the Assistant to the Assistant Travel Liaison and will have to have meals catered by only four chefs, instead of the 22 normal chef staff. This furlough number does not include Secret Service and other essential, safety workers, just the White House staff. A cut of 75% as non-essential!
• The lowest workers cut were from the Department of Vetrans Affairs (4%), the Air Force Retirement Home (13%), Homeland Security (14%), and the Justice Department (16%).