the welfare recipients need social workers, school teachers, cops, etc.
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In my county the government is the biggest industry. It is evident from the buildings. The best maintained and largest belong to the government. Our $80 million high school sits like a queen among them all.
It is my anecdotal observation in traveling across the nation that the schools are, almost without exception, the largest and most expensive structures in any community. In my county the SS school district ( single-payer and socialist-entitlement schools) is the single largest employer with largest payroll that far exceeds any other business in the county.
“In my county the government is the biggest industry.”
This is one of the things killing NJ now; what you are describing was state-wide (causing us to have such high property taxes - 3/4 of which go to schools), and then the money ran out. Governor Christie capped our tax increases at 2%, so when the teachers’ unions demanded and got 4% raises other people lost their jobs. Cops, firemen, public works, non-unionized school staff - all were cut to feed the teachers’ unions (the de facto owners of the Democratic Party). At this point they’ve even let go teachers themselves (including tenured teachers with the least seniority); the unions won’t give concessions, and those being laid off have no private-sector jobs skills. Some of the cops are moving to other states (probably the same ones to which NJ’s tax-paying American population is fleeing), while others hang on in the hopes of getting re-hired by another department (some deal was reached where laid-off cops would be hired before any newcomers). This has basically shut out young people (who would start at lower salaries) from those jobs; there is no future for young people here in NJ in many fields (not necessarily government-related).
“It is my anecdotal observation in traveling across the nation that the schools are, almost without exception, the largest and most expensive structures in any community.”
BTW, this is exactly why neither party will enforce immigration laws; the education-industrial complex will never allow it. Pampered American teachers will be teaching classes filled with foreign anchor babies, and no politician will dare to interfere with it. Heck, in my town school crossing guards were getting full benefits; the part-time (almost seasonal) education industry has become more lucrative than most private-sector work.
The only Americans I know having multiple children are government workers; imagine what that portends for the future voting patterns of these young Americans they are breeding.