This is the tip of the iceberg. Would be great if you could fold-in an imputed number (range) of government contractor employees. The government ranks are many times this, and have grown at a far steeper slope, when folding in government contracts. Other than service workers, the entire DC metro area is essentially a government worker even though they have different employee badges.
I think your math is way off. The general population is 333 million, out of which more than 23 million are what you so eloquently called 'parasuckers.'
The trend is a direct result of the lack of any required accountability…” We need more staff!” Is never met with a requirement to be more productive, they just increase the budget, and the team leader requests a “grade” increase (higher salary) because they are now managing a bigger team…
Another effect of the increasing number of government employees is that GDP figures measure more and more unproductive national expenditures rather than actual productive contributions to the economy. There's a difference between productive growth and unproductive growth.
Another excellent point. Also, if you look at the stats, the 23.4 million government employees in the U.S. in June accounted for nearly 15% of the total 158.6 million non-farm employees during that month.
This is the tip of the iceberg. Would be great if you could fold-in an imputed number (range) of government contractor employees. The government ranks are many times this, and have grown at a far steeper slope, when folding in government contracts. Other than service workers, the entire DC metro area is essentially a government worker even though they have different employee badges.
So, if One's math is correct with 500 million people, there's 21 of these parasuckers per being?
I think your math is way off. The general population is 333 million, out of which more than 23 million are what you so eloquently called 'parasuckers.'
The trend is a direct result of the lack of any required accountability…” We need more staff!” Is never met with a requirement to be more productive, they just increase the budget, and the team leader requests a “grade” increase (higher salary) because they are now managing a bigger team…
Great point!
Another effect of the increasing number of government employees is that GDP figures measure more and more unproductive national expenditures rather than actual productive contributions to the economy. There's a difference between productive growth and unproductive growth.
Another excellent point. Also, if you look at the stats, the 23.4 million government employees in the U.S. in June accounted for nearly 15% of the total 158.6 million non-farm employees during that month.