Posted on 09/04/2016 3:49:28 PM PDT by Lorianne
The August jobs report was filled with some interest factoids, like there are now 9.93 million government workers than there are manufacturing workers.
That is a ratio of 1.81 government workers for every manufacturing worker.
Such was not always the case. But a variety of factors such as labor cost differentials, EPA regulations and taxes had led to manufacturing jobs to be sent overseas.
Now a 1.81 government to manufacturing employment ratio is called OVERHEAD. And you wonder why high paying manufacturing jobs are fleeing to other countries?
They’re from the government and they’re here to help!/sarc
well gee, isn’t that special.
Nothing that those 1.81 government workers raising taxes on us (manufacturing worker or not) via tariffs can’t fix. We just need to be patient, they say.
Insanity.
There is about 1 for every 15 people.
It used to be that government jobs were grunt jobs .... bad offices, poor pay. now many, if not most of them exceed the private sector with all the perks added in.
that should absolutely be UNACCEPTABLE to any American.
but like 40% of the population literally doesn’t give an s-, as long as they’ve got celebrity asses to stare at and the gibmedats keep giving them free stuff
Pi is 1.41
Fibanocci’s # is 1.61
2 beautiful ratios
and now this 1.81
there are a number of federal agencies and bureaus which are unnecessary or actually harmful.... and some that are performing patentently unconstitutional programs too...
there is also a lot of fat and political patronage type jobs in many state and local govts too... but if we can get the fed bureaucrappy down to a reason this will do USA and our economy a great deal of good
has Mr. Trump provided us a list of the agencies or bueaus he would seek to close or pare down? forgive me if I missed it, thanks
I think this is something Trump can highlight to help lower this ratio.
Add in all the lawyers vs producing workers to it as well.
Government is too damn big.
I wouldnt be surprised if corrupt Congress could not justify most of those government workers under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
Isn’t Pi = 3.14159? Where does 1.41 come from?
You are correct. Freeze federal spending, cut all Federal agencies by 20% immediately, then 20% per year until all Federal ABC agencies are eliminated. Who has the testicles to do it?
The name C. Northcote Parkinson comes to mind.
You burned your Pi.
(3.1415926)
off the top of the head, here are some agencies or bureaus which could i think be mostly shut down (and we could transfer any personnel to other places where they could possibly do more constructive, constitutional work for us?)
energy (appears to be doing a lot more harm than good anyway)
education (not a federal concern)
ATF (unconstitutional, harmful)
DHS (we already have an FBI and the airport bs is absurd)
agriculture (scale back the price=support programs to the bare minimum required, they were a depression era “emergency type” affair and they are costing us all greatly every week at the supermarket anyway)
treasury (replace very costly inefficient damaging and costly irs code with a straight-forward simple tax that is efficient, less damaging, and far far less costly to administer)
there are some basically good or reasonable at least fed programs that the various states could, and mostly already do.. such as much of osha and doj civil rights division, etc. these could be pared back or shut down to eliminate all the duplication and extra expense and confusion caused by having the federales duplicating state and local programs
(the states would continue to do the work so that no citizens should be adversely impacted)
and of course Obamacare
... anyone having any better ideas? has MR. Trump said what he would seek to acocmplish?
and, because we'll have a minimum of 2 classes...the govt class and the rest of us....there will rising resentment resulting in lots and lots more crime against the govt class/retirees...afterall, they gots the money...
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