Yes, Medicare too. Unless Congress intervenes, Medicare providers will see about a 4% cut every year starting next October. The new law's deficit boost triggers automatic sequestration cuts across the board each year for ten years.
Interestingly my representative just sent me a message assuring me that both were protected in the bill. Which proves my point, you don't touch them, or if you do you ensure it looks like you didn't.
Well, based on unbiased information out there (like GAO for example) your representative is clearly lying. Maybe you consider voting for someone other than your representative…
"It provides a lot of jobs to people who are otherwise unemployable.", what a ridiculous and condescending statement. If that was true, the number of federal employees would be much higher but in fact the number has stayed relatively flat for over 50 years at 2.8 million federal employees.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES9091000001
I'm sure there are bright and talented government workers, but it's not a stretch of the imagination to say that a lot of factors make government employment cushier for some people than they might otherwise find in private employment. Or do you think the 60k employees of the TSA actually stop terrorist threats to commercial aviation?
And I'm not sure how your logic follows; there's no link between GP's claim that some government jobs effectively function as a form of welfare and your claim that the number of people eligible for this welfare must increase over time.
Heh, after all the years of "you don't need tasks and async/await" (and performance loss or boilerplate that came with that attitude) Java finally looks to implement them too.
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