ObamaNomics: Federal Work Force up 11.7%, Private Sector Down 6.6% Since Obama Took Over…
Nothing the left loves more than a fiscally unsustainable bloated government bureaucracy.
Since the beginning of the last recession (December 2007) the private sector workforce has shrunk by 6.6% while shedding more than 7.5 million jobs. Over that same time period, the federal government workforce (excluding Census and Postal workers) has grown by 11.7% while adding 230,000 jobs.
This trend has continued throughout the Obama Administration. Since President Barack Obama was sworn into office, the private sector workforce has shrunk by 2.6% while shedding 2.9 million jobs while the federal workforce (excluding Census and Postal workers) has grown by 7% while adding more than 144,000 jobs.
Posted by ZIP on Friday, March 4, 2011, at 10:15 am | 
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Its all the Czars and their staff plus all the think groups the left needs in order to enslave us.
Defund the Czars and all of Mooooooooshells staff of 24+ and those off campus think groups obama’s admin has been hiding from the public.
The recent jobs numbers say that unemployment is down, but nobody is saying how many of those are govt. jobs.
The now worldwide trend towards privatization and deregulation,
shows that even governments themselves eventually have to admit that their cures are often worse than the disease.
When governments as diverse as the “Communists” of China and the Hindu nationalists of India have now embraced deregulation and privatization (with great success)…
the continuing Left/liberal infatuation with government exposes them as the dinosaurs in the world of ideas.
Not that old ideas need be wrong: The seminal conservative political philosopher, (and friend of American liberties) Edmund Burke (1907), was a great advocate of limited power for government and already in the 18th century saw that government attempts at …
“compulsory equalization’s,”….would lead to “equal want, equal wretchedness, equal beggary” —
and our 20th century Socialist and Communist governments have amply validated that prophecy.
Nonetheless, Leftists DO constantly seek expansion of the role of government
— with Communism being the limiting case of that,
i.e. the case where government is all-powerful.
Their basic argument is that the State somehow has superior claims to the claims of the individual.
Filed under the heading “No, it’s not your money”…. aka…Mikey Moore
a modern-day mainstream Leftist quotes the thinking of philosopher Peter Singer as “proving” that none of us have any good claim to own anything: ….Everything we have is courtesy of the State….
The explanation for such a counter-intuitive and plainly totalitarian claim is to say that the individual could accomplish nothing and would earn nothing without the community of which he forms part — and that therefore he “owes” the community something in return.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Unemployment-dips-to-89-pct-apf-797302123.html?x=0