Contradictory?

Today the President issued an executive order authorizing domestic partners of federal employees to receive the same benefits as married partners. There are a whole slew of moral and ethical questions concerning the implications behind this decision: included in those is the devaluing of the traditional family structure; how do you define a "domestic partner" and how do you prove it (do you have to be a couple, or is every roommate of a federal employee going to get benefits? And their children, etc); how do you reconcile this with the stated opinion of most courts as to the definition of marriage? Or is this just an end run to avoid the courts and bypass the majority of American's opinions?

There are a lot more issues at play here and discussions for another time. My main question right now is this.

How do you reconcile the stated goal of this administration to reduce the government expenditures on health care and reduce the federal deficit with this decision to add millions of people on to the government payroll?

And that is essentially what you are doing; they are now part of the expenditures related to the massive federal HR department. The amount of corruption that is going to be related to this measure is going to be staggering! Every single person on the US payroll is going to have a "partner" within 30 days. Wait and see.

Enrollments in private industry insurance are about to drop too as all of these "partners" that had insurance with their employer (that they had to pay a part of) are going to drop that in favor of the cheaper government coverage.

The costs related to this one executive order will be outrageous. The American taxpayer just took another major hit.