Big Government Is Spending Billions of Taxpayer Dollars To Pay Someone For Jobs Nobody's Doing

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Across the country, at both state and federal levels of our government, various agencies have countless employees. That may not sound very surprising to you, but maybe this will change that for you; I don't mean too many to count; I mean that they can't be counted because the positions are empty. In a phenomenon known as ghost employees, people leave a job, and the position remains vacant, or the government agency creates a new job and never fills it, budgeting for salaries and benefits for those positions. When caught, they argue that the position must be filled and that, when it is, they will need the approved funds to cover the costs of bringing on new people. They even claim this if the…