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The over employment in today's government is over crowding the many agencies with unnessecary people and jobs.
According to Chris Edwards of the Catto Institute the government has been mismanaged and over budgeted.  "The 2.3 trillion Federal government has simply become too big for congress to over see".  This is saying that we need to reduce the size and spending of the federal government.  "But the need for spending cuts is even more acute today because of the large fiscal imbalances that loom from projected growth in entitlement cost. Spending cuts would not just balance the budget; they would also increase individual freedom and expand the economy".  He is also saying that government needs to cut employees and reduce the spending and borrowing that big government is doing now.
One of the best ways to reduce spending is to cut pay, jobs, and employee benefits like covering the cost of health insurance which would reduce wasteful spending.
An article in the Washington Post published in October 2008 stated that big government gets bigger "it has begun with a decision to use 700 Billon of tax payers money to buy up financial assets and take an ownership stake in the nations largest banks and could be followed by a stimulus program of up to 300  Billon driven by congressional Democrats."  What this means to me is they are buying stuff that they don't need, spending our tax dollars to bail out banks instead of using the money to help everyday Americans in the form of a tax refund.  In addition, "a total of more then 5 trillion dollars on wars abroad and anti-terrorism efforts at homes since 2002.  Of that hundreds of billions was misspent in large part due to a broken contracting system according to congressional oversite reports"
With all this, it shows me how government has been overspending and needs to reduces its spending to help us recover from past damage.