when there is no federal budget or any penalty for creating and continuing to run the organization at an increasing loss, what makes anybody think the employee roles in most likely too many areas have way more people than actually needed to do the work.

It is a guarantee with no criteria or measuring of accountability for the bottom line there are too many people!!!

Another fact is those doing the hiring and the co workers will never ever admit to having too many people.

If the government had a budget and were held accountable to not go into the red, you all know...the same way we have to run our house holds....the first thing the government would realize is there are too many people.

Of course it is a voting block issue and no body wants to lose the votes.

How about a basic example of when the railroads were modernized they still had a class or worker called fireman. The modern trains have no need for a fireman. However the union rules at the time (not picking on the union, just using the example) required every train to have a fireman, one rode in the caboose.....no job to perform.

The easy solution was to show the job eliminated through attrition. The railroads were able to forecast the future savings. Nobody had to double up and worker one lick harder.

There are many examples of this type of employee, co worker protectionism in ailing businesses and I guarantee it is prolific within the federal government.

Simple solution and keeping it as plain vanilla as possible....vote for the candidate who would be more likely to address running the government without a budget. The incumbent has proven he is not the one to get that job done.

Like it or not a "Bain" capital principal does in fact know what to do.....we have no more risk voting to see if he will do anything about fixing the financially broken company called the federal government, than when people voted for Obama because they simply liked what he promised.

I am sure Romney will find that unlike Bain having the support of those who hired his company to fix it allowing them to do what ever it took to fix the problem.....he will find out he has only we the people for support and his arch enemies will be all the other incumbents that will struggle to the end (like Rangle in NY) to keep BUSINESS AS USUAL.

Romney will make an attempt to do what is right for America.

btk