As of this September, federal, state and local governments in this country employed a record total of 23,421,000 individuals, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In other words, government payrolls were populated by more people than lived in the state of Florida or in any of 47 other states. Only California and Texas had populations that exceeded the number of people who work for government in this country.
hence the Democrats pushing for Washington DC to have statehood, the 2 Senate seats they’d gain would be handy.
Washington DC should have a permanent population of zero, as the founders intended.
So … government employees are the single largest “swing State” in the nation. No. That’s not good. Deport government employees NOW! Back to the REAL WORLD of the private sector.
Two thumbs up, except they’re a solid blue state IMHO.
And that is why everything is f-ed in the USA these days.
Now do Canada.
I have no data to back this up, but my hunch is, when you look at the real employment rate (not the BS unemployment rate), the ratio of private sector workers vs. government sector workers in this country might be dangerously close to 1:1.
I think 1000:1 private/public would be a ratio to strive for. Down below someone posted that in Canada it is about 4:1. And it feels like it.
Seize the means of production indeed.
Public Administration was 1,183,100
Health Care and Social Assistance was 2,666,700
Education services was 1,495,200
For a total of 5,345,000 out of 20,170,900 total employed in all industries as of 2023.
This also doesn’t include the “Not for profit sector” outside of the above, or the “Government Consulting sector”
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410002301
Not adjusted for population, Canada probably has similar.
I bet Turdworld Dominion’s is a worse ratio.
I believe that you are correct. Last time I looked, Canada clocked in at almost 4 million public service employees under the same rules as stated by the article. So we are worse than the US by a fair piece. 10% of the population voting Liberal is a hard stone to overturn at the ballot box. Even if we are only 10% of the American total, we are still in trouble at 2.3 million.
Worse by a factor of 3, at least.
Government adds nothing to the economy, actually takes away from the economy, so the decline speed will increase as government payrolls enlarge.
My sister worked for CRA for +3 decades and one year at Christmas I mentioned this to her that she really isn’t a contributor to the tax base, and she responded with, “oh yeah? you want to take a look at my pay stub to see how much tax I pay?”
I declined.
There is no logic or reasoning with them, they will not and can not see the difference.
It’s the circular economy in action.
Easy question to answer…
A Quarter of Employed Canadians Now Work For The Government
“Canada’s now so dependent on public sector growth that government workers represent 1 in 4 employed workers. ”
https://betterdwelling.com/a-quarter-of-employed-canadians-now-work-for-the-government/
Shouldn’t that read are “employed by” and not “work for”? After all they are bureaucrats… 🙂
You know the old joke before there was “work from home”:
Why doesn’t a civil servant look out of the windows in the morning?
Because they want something to do for the afternoon!
And to keep this warm, fuzzy feeling going, check out Chris Selley in the NP discussing park workers in Toronto and Montreal. The absolute sloth of these city employees…
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/soft-corruption-of-government-workers
Regina’s Park Staff are no better. When my sister was alive, I would take care of a parkette near her. In the fall or in the spring, I would rake up the leaves into piles and then call the city to have their lazy ass staff show up “sometime” to remove the pile. There were a number of trees with very dead branches on them. After the third time complaining to the staff that in a good wind, these branches could fall and destroy the next door neighbor’s fence or even hit their house. Apparently, it was never the right time of the year to remove the branches. Any excuse not to work!
It’s not “soft corruption” it is outright “fraud” for falsifying their work records, but no one will be held to account.
21 percent of Canada’s working population is directly employed by some level of government. And, at any one time another 10 percent is employed on some kind of a government contract. Another 10 percent is drawing unemployment or disability pension or workmens comp.
So, sixty percent of the working population – in addition to supporting themselves and their own families – supports the other forty percent and their families.
1/3rd on welfare and 1/3rd government workers (same same).. And 1/3rd who get handed the bill..
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Just how is democracy supposed to function under such conditions?. Then they flood the place with migrants :)..
And how many millions more retired parasites are collecting government pensions and health insurance?
What problems WOULDN’T be solved with a drastic reduction of the State.
^1,000,000