There’s a $1.6 trillion deficit but the feds are still hiring

It’s almost like they don’t know we’re broke, and that they’re the ones who made us that way. Via the Daily Caller:

As of March 23 they were hiring someone to run a Facebook page for the Department of the Interior (at up to $115,000 a year). They were hiring equal opportunity compliance officers at the Peace Corps and Department of Interior for $150,000 to $180,000 a pop. They were hiring deputy speechwriters for officials at relatively obscure agencies. …P.S.: The point isn’t so much that these federal employees are overpaid, though they are. The point is that if there were any actual sense of a deficit crisis in Washington these are jobs that would not be filled at all.

Exactly.

Not only do we have the most corrupt Congress of all time — we also have the most tone-deaf Congress of all time.

Kaus adds:

it looks like a tacit conspiracy of Washingtonians not to sacrifice the jobs of any of their friends, or the local economy, by any kind of actual slimming down (of the sort a private company in similar straits would have undertaken years ago).