Posted on 08/20/2010 9:43:04 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Mark Tapscott has an odd idea of a fun time, but I'm glad he does. He was casually tooling through the info posted on the website of the U.S. Census Bureau and decided to see how many welfare bureaucrats there were working in the states. I know, I know, Tapscott needs to take up bowling or something. But, still, the numbers he found are instructive.
He found, for instance, that out of every 100,000 residents, the State of New York has 256 welfare bureaucrats and Wisconsin has 249. That's quite a number, isn't it?
That means that New York, having 19,541,453 residents, has at least 50,026 welfare bureaucrats feeding off the taxpayers. Wisconsin, why it employs 14,080 welfare workers.
These number are, well, idiotic. But they are true nonetheless...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
It is interesting that little North Dakota ends up 9th on the list. I would suspect that one reason may be because there are bigger geographical distances to cover in a sparsely populated state for field workers.
What??!
Michiganistan doesn’t make the top ten?
I’d have thought Illinois would be in there, too.
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