If you want to go back and thrash out what the FDR regime was doing to the federal work force, fine, but that's not what the discussion was about.
Again, your evasiveness suggests some good reasons to not discuss this with you. All you will do is keep changing the base.
But back in 1940 I think we had less than 150 million people. We now have 300+ million people.
The federal bureaucracy has shrunk relative to the population over that period of time.
Anyone can look at the numbers and see the difference.
Now, how do you explain WWII? Should we have avoided that war lest the bureaucracy grow?
>The initial question was about 2000 to present, not 1940 to present.
Umm, who cares? The years of 2000 to the present are covered in my table. It is not overly demanding to only look at data of your choosing.
However my point was to dispute your claim that federal employment has been static since 1964. You made that claim. I found a source which demonstrated that you were playing games with it.
As for evasiveness, I’m not evading anything. We’re discussing federal employment. We’re not discussing me or you. This isn’t some flame site where we exchange insults. We discuss topics provided for in articles via links to external sources. I don’t care who you are or what you may do or have done. None of that makes any difference to me.
I care for whether you make sound arguments based on established verifiable facts. In this regard you fail.
I have made no argument about 1940. I haven’t brought that into the discussion at all. Yet for some reason you choose to bring it up. I’d say there is where we venture into the area of evasion.
But heck, if we want to bring up the total federal employment in civilian agencies (as listed in my provided table)
1940 443000
2010 1360000
As you just stated, the population back then was 150000000. Now it is roughly 300000000 (308 million actually according to the census, but rough numbers are OK).
So for a a population which has increased by 100%, we’ve increased in federal staffing by 200%.
You know, you really should leave numbers alone. You simply aren’t good at them. You just shot yourself in the foot.