Posted on 09/07/2012 2:05:43 PM PDT by Nachum
There was good news for American workers in August—if government was their employer. The unemployment rate for government wage and salaries workers dropped from 5.7 percent in July to 5.1 percent in August. At the same time, the number of government wage and salary workers counted as unemployed dropped by 123,000 people from 1,182,000 in July to 1,059,000 in August. The overall national unemployment rate was 8.1 percent in August. A year ago, in August 2011, there were 1,271,000 unemployed government wage and salary workers. So, the number of unemployed government workers has dropped by 212,000 since then.
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That will change at the end of the default process. Government will close briefly then open much smaller.
I have a whole new view of government workers and it starts with the image of the Libyan revolution and government workers, mercenary secret service palace guards and Kaddhafi generals hanging from lampposts.
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