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.
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.
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.
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.
Government adds nothing to the economy, actually takes away from the economy, so the decline speed will increase as government payrolls enlarge.
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