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Where does this all consuming hate for government employees come from? Why do I wonder if the OP is unemployed, his homepage is USAJOBS.gov, has applied to over 1000 government jobs, and hasn't had a single interview?
Where does this all consuming hate for government employees come from? Why do I wonder if the OP is unemployed, his homepage is USAJOBS.gov, has applied to over 1000 government jobs, and hasn't had a single interview?
Also, the federal tax code is part of law, which congress writes and the president approves, not federal workers. Please get your civics straight.
From the same people who, during times of prosperity and big salaries for private industry employees, made fun of gov't workers for accepting paltry salaries and limited benefits.
Everybody makes choices, those who chose private industry over government employment, because the salaries/benefits were soooo much better, need to stop demonizing those who chose the more secure, lower salaried gov't jobs.
It's interesting that the states with the highest percentage of government employees are not the supposedly liberal Blue states, but the Red "small government" states. Folks like to holler about government being too big, but when it comes down to their own backyard they like their benefits.
North Dakota and Mississippi are up in the high teens, and in Alaska and Wyoming over 20% of workers are employed by the government.
We have way too many government employees as a percentage of workers. It is now above 10% and decades ago it was more like .00001%.
Please feel free to post some proof for the quantitative statements. You can look up that word if you don't know what it means. Only an idiot would make such a statement and not be able to back it up. Please provide the data.
We have way too many government employees as a percentage of workers. It is now above 10% and decades ago it was more like .00001%.
It has been above 10% for a long long time. Going back almost four decades, the following is percentage of government payroll to total payroll:
1973: 18.1%
1977: 18.7%
1981: 18.0%
1985: 17.0%
1989: 16.5%
1993: 17.2%
1997: 16.0%
2001: 15.7%
2005: 16.4%
2009: 16.7%
2011*: 16.6%
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