[FromLori]

ping

[Poundstone]

This is way oversimplified and overblown.

[alecqss]

Toward the end of 2007, the total number of government jobs exceeded the total number of goods producing jobs. Welcome to the government payroll economy.

Starting with dems in full control of the Congress...
Welcome indeed - to an economic disaster in a making.

[3catsanadog]

Most government jobs entail pushing paper from one side of the desk to the other. The only time they break a sweat is when they grab one of the 20-30 stampers on their desk to slam them down on the papers that they get paid to thumb through.

Last job I had at a major oil company I worked at was with a department that was involved in coal liquefaction. We were partnered with a Japanese group and a German group and also the Department of Energy. Every single memo, report, letter, etc. that I and other secretaries produced had to be copied umpteen times for all involved. I'm talking at least 100 copies.

I found a comic in the Sunday paper one weekend at that time that described precisely the way the government worked. The first screen were the characters marching along a path, then they get to a chasm. One asks how are we supposed to get over this? Another suggests they ask the government. The last screen is the marchers crossing the chasm on stacks of paper.

I don't know what comic it was in but it was jaw-dropping appropriate.

[Senator John Blutarski]

I don’t find the comparison between “good-producing” jobs and government jobs as an essential metric. However, it is of profound concern that, while the population has grown by a factor of 2.5x between 1939 and today, government employment has grown by a factor greater than 6x.

[Art in Idaho]

Trendlines not good. Unless there is a conservative revolution with lower taxes, less regulation, more free enterprise and capitalism, etc, the country is doomed.

[mulligan]

Parasites just keep on sucking blood from working people that make the system go. Keep this up for much longer and soon there will be no working blood left. What will the parasites do then?