Bush and Heston can meet there every afternoon, tip a few, then drive around and shoot at a mailboxes and road signs. Kinda like eating your seed-corn. Name a civilian Federal department that has substantially less people now. How do I know - my brother, a conservation and alternative power engineer, was one of them. He, along with a lot of others, took a 'lead' parachute last year.
Regulations require regulators.
Kinda like the fire dept. I might look it up again. However, it is questionable whether one realy has to reduce the government. Administration becomes more complex with globalization. Reduction in federal government usually leads to increases in state and local government or to neglect.