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Welfare Bureaucrats Swarm Like Locusts Upon The States
Publius Forum ^ | 08/20/10 | Warner Todd Huston

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...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: budget; cheeze; governmentwaste; states; taxes; welfare
Well, if you want to save state budget money HERE are thousands of people you can fire!
1 posted on 08/20/2010 9:43:07 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
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To: Mobile Vulgus
welfare bureaucracy: A form of the parasitic fund us disease of government
2 posted on 08/20/2010 10:21:44 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Mobile Vulgus
Local government workers handling public welfare duties covers a pretty large range . . . from administrative drones who seldom leave their offices to field workers who must regularly remove children from situations which could be life threatening.

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.

3 posted on 08/20/2010 10:26:11 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

What??!
Michiganistan doesn’t make the top ten?


4 posted on 08/20/2010 10:52:30 AM PDT by gigster
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To: gigster

I’d have thought Illinois would be in there, too.


5 posted on 08/20/2010 12:19:13 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
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