I work federal as part of the DoD, none of the retards calling government employees wasteful know the scope of what we do and most of use are ex-military like myself so we are well qualified and deserving of our pay, where are still serving our country. Like I said, if you give jobs to a privatized contractor the government saved no money. Look at Cape Canaveral, they're closing down a NASA station there and 2000 federal employees lose their jobs, great for American, right? Wrong, all those businesses that catered to that NASA station will go out of business, the same effect base closures have on surrounding areas, so yes, the government does create jobs, directly and indirectly. If they move to another area more businesses will be created to cater to them which indirectly the government creates jobs.