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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.

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So, if One's math is correct with 500 million people, there's 21 of these parasuckers per being?

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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.'

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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…

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Great point!

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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.

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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.

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