Stephen Moore reminds us: “More Americans work for the government than in manufacturing, farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities combined.”
Still, any suggestion that the US is turning into a bureaucratic state committed to growing centralized authority emanating from a federal government and its regulatory agencies is, of course, ludicrous — as plenty of “pragmatists” in both political parties are willing to assure you.
In Latin, if they feel they have to.
NOW SHUT YOUR DERANGED MOUTHS, PURISTS! OTHERWISE THE TERRORISTS DEMOCRATS WILL HAVE WON!
Once we all work for the government, things will be much better.
I agree. Provided Tom Stoppard is there to write the script.
And Terry Gilliam agrees to direct our lives.
And the studio gets final cut.
Porro, Quiretes, libertatum perdimus.
This is some kind of insane crazed conspiracy theory!
Everyone knows government employees don’t work.
You’re deranged, Jeff. Obama is NOT a socialist, as was demonstrated beyond question in that one thread by that one guy.
To point out that he’s moving the economy in the direction of more gubmint control rather than less is just more evidence of YOUR derangement.
Speaking of Latin, is it legal to yell “focus” in a crowded theater?
Di —
My favorite moment was when Mr Al-Tamimi told me that yes, in fact I AM obsessed with the Ayers / Obama connection, and the proof is that I’d discussed the issue (and in those discussions have suggested that Ayers’ involvement in Dreams could have been no more than Obama’s aping of Ayers’ style).
Whereas his fascination with my supposed fascination, or the fascination all us wingnuts supposedly hold to? Not obsessive at all.
He finds it useful to say you’re obsessed with Obama/Ayers because then he can Ask Pointed Questions That You Refuse To Answer, such as demanding that you demonstrate where Obama’s choice of guest bands is influenced by what’s on Ayers’s iPod, or whatever it was.
The point you were actually making interests him not at all, because it doesn’t hold the deranged water very well.
I don’t recall you and your ilk complaining when Teddy Roosevelt was growing he size of government.
/habibi
did someone say grow the gov’t?
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Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Before we go any further, do you consider pondering over just how many eggs are in the golden goose a pointful ponderosa?
Somewhere a point has reached its destination and found no place to land.
“Fuck those police, school teachers, fire fighters, and military personnel. Give me miners or give me death.”
You mean like in 1960, when there were half as many government workers as people in manufacturing?
They must have really hated cops and firefighters back then.
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_20th_century_chart.html
Since alex likes charts.
Can someone wake up the tower operator the point would like to land now.
Wandering in comparing me to the Chinese government is not the best way to ensure you’ll receive hospitably in my house.
So fuck off.
Hey,
Where did alex go?
Man I hate it when that happens.
I was just gettin my mojo workin;)
I’m guessing Alex has been banished to the same place as Willie the racist hilljack skinflute player.
All I think you can take from Mr. Moore’s article is that the private industries of manufacturing, farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities have all gotten more efficient and produce more with less labor. Government, not so much.