Harry Reid says Private Sector Jobs Are Doing Fine, Need To Focus on Gov Jobs??!!

[HappyTexan]

Did he miss all those meetings in Congress where we had to raise the debt ceiling because we are borrowing like there's no tomorrow ?

[analyze_this]

Majority of the government jobs are related to the defense industry, whether it be direct employees or contractors.

[BigJon3475]

Originally Posted by analyze_this

Majority of the government jobs are related to the defense industry, whether it be direct employees or contractors.

Our Global Infrastructure The national security depends on our defense installations and facilities being in the right place, at the right time, with the right qualities and capacities to protect our national resources. Those resources have never been more important as America fights terrorists who plan and carry out attacks on our facilities and our people.
Our military servicemembers and civilians operate in every time zone and in every climate. More than 450,000 employees are overseas, both afloat and ashore.
The Defense Department manages an inventory of installations and facilities to keep Americans safe. The Department’s physical plant is huge by any standard, consisting of more than several hundred thousand individual buildings and structures located at more than 5,000 different locations or sites. When all sites are added together, the Department of Defense utilizes over 30 million acres of land.
These sites range from the very small in size such as unoccupied sites supporting a single navigational aid that sit on less than one-half acre, to the Army's vast White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with over 3.6 million acres, or the Navy’s large complex of installations at Norfolk, Virginia with more than 78,000 employees.
In Comparison ...
In terms of people and operations, we’re busier than just about all of the nation’s largest private sector companies.
The Department of Defense has a budget of four hundred nineteen point three billion dollars and more than three million employees; Wal-Mart has a budget of about two hundred twenty-seven billion dollars and employs about one-point-three million people; Exxon-Mobil has a budget of two hundred billion dollars and employs almost ninety-eight thousand; the GM company budget equals one hundred eighty-one billion dollars, it has a workforce of three-hundred sixty-five thousand people; and Ford has a budget of one-hundred sixty billion dollars, and employs three-hundred fifty-four thousand, four hundred people.

About The Department of Defense - DoD 101

[Marv101]

Don't be surprised if he gets massacred by the WSJ's editorial page come Thursday.

And boy, does he deserve it!!!!!!!!

[jjwebbster]

Originally Posted by 11thHour

Oh Harry. Protip: Spend less time with your head up your arse and more time finishing ECON 101.

So true. Harry is strange and his mother dresses him
funny,