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Face it; liberty is gone. Freedom exists now only in the ideology of the Constitution, not in the practice of “democracy” and a U.S. government that rules us with tens of thousands of “laws” that yoke us to an indentured servitude of paying for its spending spree.

To truly understand the truth of this article I think you have to look how the United States has changed in the last 50 years.

When I was a kid I remember that General Motors was the largest employer in the United States and the world. Now the government is the largest employer in the United States.

In March 2013, federal, state, and local governments employed 21.8 million people. This is a decrease of 208,851 employees (0.9 percent) from the same period in 2012. State governments employed 5.3 million people, a decrease of 4,169 (less than 0.1 percent). Local governments employed 13.8 million people, a decrease of 156,877 (1.1 percent). The federal government employed 2.7 million people, a decrease of 47,805 (1.7 percent) (see Figure 1).

Any of the top private employers in the country don’t even come close.

Walmart is the largest employer in the world with 2.2 million employees worldwide and the largest employer in the country with 1.3 employees.

Just think of what that means for this country. We have become a consumer oriented country over the last 50 years. Consumers don’t think about what they can do to be productive they think about what can be done for them by somebody else. Consumers want it done. If you want it done then somebody has to get it done whether that is private or government. Consumers will vote for someone that says they will get it done. Democrats.

The stats above say that the number of public employees fell in the time period stated and that is a good thing but I suspect it is a temporary phenomenon.

And the most important consequence of public employees out numbering private employees is that government employees vote for more government.