Reducing Government Employment

Open Email to House Speaker Boehner:

Dear Speaker Boehner,
    Congratulations on your move to guarantee back pay for all federal employees now on furlough. The Washington Times says, the bill ensures
that hundreds of thousands of furloughed government workers will receive full back pay after lawmakers strike a deal to reopen the federal government. I see the House vote was unanimous, and it is almost certain that the Senate and Pres. will approve the measure early next week.
I suppose you had to do this as part of your piecemeal government funding strategy and to maintain public support. However, I'm sure you recognize this also defeats in part our objective to reduce the size of government. The more government employees we have on the payroll, the larger is our government, and the more we spend
You will now have to start thinking of some other mechanisms by which to reduce government employment, if we are ever going to make any headway on reducing expenses and establishing a program for long-term government continuity. Unfortunately, I have no suggestions at this time.