How many live by the Swamp and the goodies there

How big is our Federal Government?

The following is from the 2012 INFORMATION ALMANAC

·       Cabinet Heads, 15 Secretaries

·       Cabinet Department:

-      Department of State, 6 agencies or commissions

-      Department of Treasury, 6 Bureaus

-      Department of Defense, 6 Agencies

-      Department of Justice, 8 Bureaus, Agencies Commissions etc.

-      Department of Interior, 8 Bureaus, Services etc.

-      Department of Agriculture, 8 Services

-      Department of Commerce, 8 Bureaus, Institutes etc.

-      Department of Labor, 8 Bureaus, Offices

-      Department of Health and Human Services, 7 Agencies

-      Department of Housing and Urban Development, 4 Administrations, (Including Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac)

-      Department of Transportation, 7 Administrations

-      Department of Energy, 4 Administrations or Commissions

-      Department of Education, 1

-      Department of Veterans Affairs, 1

-      Department of Homeland Security, 8 Agencies

In addition to the above fourteen Departments with about 90 offices there are 88 other US Government agencies.

If each had an average number of employees WOW!

Spending our tax dollars and plotting their job security.