The Axe Rises Over Medicare and Medicaid

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3. These are addle-brained and shallow non-government idiots doing this crap

They created a fictional world of "the deep state", concocting and internalizing some bullshit about all these "civil servants" that need to be eliminated.

Little did they realize was that the guy they threw under the bus - Ronald Zombie Raygun - started that whole "contracting out" crap in the '80s and it has been going full throttle ever since - notably eliminating much of the administrative functioning, and then contracting out the "customer service" function, the IT function, and most recently, the "investigation" function (e.g., IRS, FBI, etc).

The actual number of civil service employees has remained pretty static - somewhere in the 2 million range - for the past 40 years - DESPITE an increase in the U.S. population from ~235 million in 1984 to ~340 million in 2024.