By nature and choice, I’m a trusting person.  I disdain … if not abhor … cynicism and skepticism.  Both are negative, unproductive, and no way to go through life. But increasingly, I don’t know what news and news sources to trust.  That’s bad, really bad. Example.   I...

  There are about 325K federal civilian employees and 225K federal contractors in Maryland.  That’s 550K jobs.   There are about 3.2M people in Maryland’s civilian labor force (government and non-government).   Let’s say DOGE cuts 10% of the federal civilians and federal contractors. ...

You can do your own research and see what you find.  Here’s what I found. A Google search confirmed my assumption that federal civilian employees cost less, a lot less, than federal contractors. “Specifically, the federal government approves service contract billing rates—deemed...

Highly recommend reading and thinking about this report from McKinsey:  “Dependency and depopulation?  Confronting the consequences of a new demographic reality.”  https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/dependency-and-depopulation-confronting-the-consequences-of-a-new-demographic-reality?stcr=D5B28FF38E8F4D5EBDD1CCD3F16ECB14&cid=other-eml-nsl-mip-mck&hlkid=807c158e7ecd4e4e96d5c6f40e00aea7&hctky=11603926&hdpid=70a8e81a-5986-4fe1-b4ca-f1f2de0cbe03 It...