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     One of the signs that the U.S. Government has gotten too big is the size of our debt. A small Government would likely never be 17 trillion dollars in debt. Is the Government trying to do too much? Id say yes, we are overloaded and carrying too much weight.
Here is a breakdown of the U.S. Federal Government in employee numbers. I'm not going to give budget numbers of any kind, employees only. This will give us a rough idea of the Government's size. My research uncovered some astonishing figures. The following are estimates.

Transportation Security Administration (T.S.A)- 55,600 employees

Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A)-17,400 employees

United States Postal Service (U.S.P.S)-522,150 employees

The National Security Administration (N.S.A)-number is classified but estimated at- 35,000
employees

Internal Revenue Service (I.R.S)-106,000 employees

Federal Bureau of Investigations (F.B.I)- 35,000 employees

Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A)-number is classified but estimated at 22,000 employees

Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S)- 240,000 employees

National Park Service- estimated 19,000 employees.

Federal Bureau of Prisons(B.O.P)- 37,000 employees

United States Armed Forces, including reserves (U.S.A.F) - 2,300,000

Department of Justice (D.O.J)- 14,000 employees

United States Mint- 2,000 employees

Federal Trade Commission (F.T.D) - 1,100 employees

United States Border Patrol (U.S.B.P) - 21,500 employees

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (N.A.S.A) - 18,000 employees

United States Department of Education (U.S.D.E) - 6,000 employees

United States Department of Agriculture (U.S.D.A) - 106,000

United States Air Traffic Organization (U.S.A.T.F)- 35,000 employees

Total number from these major departments - 3,592,750

If I were to guess, Id say this is still less than half of the Federal Government. I only selected the areas that most people are familiar with. There are at least 150 more agencies and bureaus of the U.S. Government not mentioned here. The Department of Defense (D.O.D) alone boasts a shocking 3.2 million employees. I did not include the D.O.D because some of the areas above fall under the D.O.D umbrella. Remember these are federal employees only. No city, county or state workers of any kind were included. Is the Government getting too big? Ill let you be the judge.- BDB

All figures were gathered from Wikipedia- (Google Images)