“italy has roughly 60 million people and about 5% are government employees. Anybody know what the percentage is here in the US?”
According to Wolframalpha.com in the USA, 22.57 million are government employees, out of a workforce of about 155 million.
That makes the percentage of government employees about 14% in the USA.
Nearly 3 times the rate of socialist Italy? Wake up folks, the USA ALREADY IS SOCIALIST, BIG TIME!
Somehow I think that 5% figure is wrong. I suppose if that is only Federal employees, maybe. But add state, county and city employees (or however Italy’s public sector is structured) I’d think it is much higher. Regardless, all public sector employees feed off the taxation of the private sector, so it doesn’t matter where they’re employed, does it?