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Those employed by government in the United States in August of this year outnumbered those employed in the manufacturing sector by almost 1.8 to 1, according to data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There were 21,995,000 employed by federal, state and local government in the United States in August, according to BLS. By contrast, there were only 12,329,000 employed in the manufacturing sector. The BLS has published seasonally-adjusted month-by-month employment numbers for both government and manufacturing going back to 1939. In the first 50 years of the 76-year span since then, manufacturing out-employed government. But in August 1989,...

WASHINGTON, September 8, 2015 – Donald Trump’s current candidacy for the 2016 GOP Presidential nomination is still being treated as a jolly entertainment carnival by the lamestream media.Meanwhile, “traditional” and RINO Republicans—particularly those in the Jeb Bush camp— are freaking out as Trump continues to dominate the news. Democrats are getting increasingly nervous about Trump as well, given the increasingly dismal Hillary Clinton campaign, which is getting buried beneath The Smartest Woman In The World’s tsunami of lies and defiance.But the increasingly shallow and clueless media and party professionals are generally ignoring the reason why their best-laid plans are getting...