The U.S. added 49,000 government jobs in November, with 32,000 of those being local and 17,000 of those being federal, bringing the total number of government employees to 22,967,000, according to the BLS. The number of total government employees in November is only outdone by one other month, with 22,996,000 people being employed by the government in May 2010 as a result of temporary hiring used to perform the census that year, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED).
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
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Wait- more than during WW2?!?! All governments in existence back then, plus all of Army, Navy, Marines, Air Corps, Merchant Marines, and Coast Guard? All being paid by the government? I find that hard to believe.
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Bectel was larger than the federal government, until the late 70’s.
DeleteThat’s how fast it got out of control.
The same is true for my local Podunk county. 40 years ago the largest employer was a big tech company which is long gone. Second biggest was a local logging contactor. Third was the county.
DeleteThe logging outfit is now second to the county, which has over five times the number of employees as the logger. The county has 1100 employees and has an annual budget of $370 million. The logger has around 200 employees and generates less than $50 million a year.
It's not just FedGuv that's out of control.
ReplyDeleteIt's about the Democrat strategy of "how to manipulate people and garner votes from them" Money in the peasant's pockets means buying bread and circuses and government job handouts result in votes.
"Too many pigs for the teats..."
ReplyDeleteThe promise of a thick, plush government pension must be irresistible. But the government will have collapsed through a debt-driven hyperinflationary collapse long before these "workers" ever have a chance to collect. Joke is on you, morons.
ReplyDeleteHow many of those are "affirmative action" hires?? I bet close to 95%!
ReplyDeleteWhy, really why so many are they needed I expect not
ReplyDelete23 million government employees? WTF?
ReplyDeleteNow I have something more than my finances to keep me awake tonight.
This is how the govt screws with the employment numbers when their economic policies suck. Government employees should not count towards the employment numbers since they are glorified welfare people. Want to bump the employment numbers... require a climate change report for any highway change you are making. Want to harass the middle class, then hire 87,000 IRS agents. It is socialism in a round about way which the democrats are great at and the republicans dont have a spine.
ReplyDeleteI've been both a govt. employee (where I reached the staggering heights of GS-5) and a govt. contractor. The amount of waste and stupidity I witnessed on an almost daily basis deepened my native cynicism. The American public wouldn't even notice a 50% reduction in govt. employees. Entire cabinet level departments could be dissolved with only positive results.
ReplyDeleteI wholeheartedly agree. I retired from the Army then went to work for a school board. I thought the feds were bad, the school district didn't even try to hide their corruption. There were employees of the district who worked as consultants for our contractors. Everyone knew it, heck even the superintendent was getting paid for consulting, along with his wife. Oh, and the State cares not, it's all one big happy corrupt family, and you and I ain't in it.
DeleteGotta wonder how many of those 23 million would vote for a guy like Trump...?
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile in Argentina the new President (who is a professor of economics) has cut 18 govt departments down to 9 in his 1st week in office in order to turn the economy around.
ReplyDeleteAl_in_Ottawa
Bring in Vivek.... He will fire half of them. Also, Id be curious to know the average salary of these tit suckers. Bet we would all be pissed.
ReplyDeleteThey pretend to work, we pretend to pay them.
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