US Austerity: Reached 30 year low in Government workers as % of the Population

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The peak of U.S. employment occurred in January 2008, just one month after the Great Recession officially began. The number of Americans with a job hit an all-time high of 138.1 million, of which some 22.4 million worked in government, according to the Labor Department’s business survey.
That worked out to 16.2% of the labor force.
Fast forward to January. In the first month of 2013, some 134.8 million people held a job and government employed 21.9 million workers. Once again, the public sector represented 16.2% of the labor force.


Ahhh, so there was a decrease in government employment. I wonder what I was talking about in the OP. Maybe you should reread it again, lol.
 

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Too bad we can't have big government Ronald Reagan as President again. There is no doubt he'd convince his degenerate base of conservative voters that spending tons of money and hiring tons of government workers creates a prosperous economy.

:):)

Guess what the absolute dumb fuck ignores when making this assertion?

4,931,000 federal workers in 1992

4,135,000 federal workers in 1999.

Anyone want to argue that the U/E rate didn't fall and the GDP didn't grow during that time?
 

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Ahhh, so there was a decrease in government employment. I wonder what I was talking about in the OP. Maybe you should reread it again, lol.

The fact that you are laughably pretending anyone disputed a decrease shows how pathetically stupid you are.

You are without a doubt the dumbest person posting here.

It is hilarious that numerous people have come out of the woodwork to point this out.
 

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Too bad we can't have big government Ronald Reagan as President again. There is no doubt he'd convince his degenerate base of conservative voters that spending tons of money and hiring tons of government workers creates a prosperous economy.

:):)

Guess what the absolute dumb fuck ignores when making this assertion?

4,931,000 federal workers in 1992

4,135,000 federal workers in 1999.

Anyone want to argue that the U/E rate didn't fall and the GDP didn't grow during that time?

Those are federal workers. What about government workers which I was referring to?
 

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The fact that you are laughably pretending anyone disputed a decrease shows how pathetically stupid you are.

You are without a doubt the dumbest person posting here.

It is hilarious that numerous people have come out of the woodwork to point this out.

Comparing government employees to those that are employed after the private sector loses 8 million jobs is hilariously misleading. And you use that as evidence there hasn't been any austerity?? Lmao!! You still don't get how math works, it's really funny to watch you try.

Just like the spending as % of GDP debacle you had.
 

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Austerity!!!

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Comparing government employees to those that are employed after the private sector loses 8 million jobs is hilariously misleading. And you use that as evidence there hasn't been any austerity?? Lmao!! You still don't get how math works, it's really funny to watch you try.

Just like the spending as % of GDP debacle you had.

There hasn't been any austerity.

You laughable joke.
 

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Comparing government employees to those that are employed after the private sector loses 8 million jobs is hilariously misleading

Except nobody did any such thing.

You idiot.
 

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Notice how stupid this kid is.

He is actually claiming that the federal government under Reagan set about to hire all these "government workers" which would include state & local government employees.

Yet when the # of federal workers declined by over 790,000 under Clinton, disproving his dipshit, I've never had a real job economic theories, the response is to attempt to change the subject.

Probably because this dipshit is so informed on economics and stuff.
 

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There hasn't been any austerity.

You laughable joke.

There's been plenty of austerity. Almost everything involving the government is increasing at a rate that we have not seen in decades. Especially at the state/local levels. And notice I said "almost everything", so don't get your panties in a wad where you find something that has increased a little higher than something else, lol.
 

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Notice how stupid this kid is.

He is actually claiming that the federal government under Reagan set about to hire all these "government workers" which would include state & local government employees.

Yet when the # of federal workers declined by over 790,000 under Clinton, disproving his dipshit, I've never had a real job economic theories, the response is to attempt to change the subject.

Probably because this dipshit is so informed on economics and stuff.

Yet the number of government workers as a whole increased by over a million under Clinton.

Fact: Only President who has not had an increase of government workers in the past 30 years is Obama.

Not much you can do to skate yourself around that one.
 

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The only way conservative economic theories work is if we are at full capacity. What they can't figure out is that businesses "might" be able to produce more if there was more demand for goods and services. Almost all their theories mathematically would require full capacity utilization.
 

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I've worked in the "real world" for 7 years now and made more money than you the entire time. That really must hurt your feelings.

Uh huh:

Most of those studies determine that by whether you have 6 months worth of paychecks in savings. By those standards I live paycheck to paycheck.

Don't worry stupid, when all you do is lie all day, it is easy to forget what you've already said.

You have a low IQ which doesn't help either.
 

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So, it doesn't matter if someone actually wants my product, I will still make money just because I make the product? Lol, you really are stupid.

This is why you work on an assembly line sticking the same bolt in the same place 12 hours a day and not anything with brainpower.

Where does the capital come from to meet this 'demand'? From previous sales/consumption. From your company's capital reserves. You can have 1000 people lined up outside your house 'demanding' a certain product, if you don't have the CAPITAL to manufacture the product, NOTHING HAPPENS.

Keep voting for the party that targets the risk takers and capitalists - the people who CREATE JOBS.

Idiot.

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You can make tax rates 0% and the same mathematical problems would occur. You're just really dumb and do not understand economics.

Now inflation is some worldwide conspiracy... that is hilarious. You're a real life nutter.

See, this is what happens when don't understand even rudimentary economics and just blindly "listen to the experts" who do nothing but dream up stupid textbook theories all day that sound great on paper ("have your cake and eat it too!") but will never work in the real world.

Inflation isn't a "worldwide conspiracy", it is simply the end result of ALL welfare states - governments who spend beyond their means.

There are only 3 ways for a govt to raise revenue - taxes, print money, borrow money.

The Political class promises voters (Obot ignoramuses like you) things the government can't afford, certainly not without raising taxes beyond an acceptable level.

This leaves the political class with two choices - borrow or print, none of which create wealth and only destabilize the economy. The political class then hands their financial mess over to "really, REALLY smart" central bankers who are then told to "make it work."...and so we get all these ridiculous loose money "free lunch" fallacies and gimmicks (Keynesian economics, Abenomics, 'stimulus', artificial low interest rates, quantitative easing etc.) idiots like you believe in which do nothing but cause bubbles, currency devaluation, slow or no growth, boom and bust cycles, plummeting savings and market crashes.

There is no " world wide conspiracy" moron...it's because clueless commies like you INSIST on a Big Government welfare nobody can afford!

"There's no such thing as a free lunch!" - Milton Friedman

"It's all about math, man!" - fratfraud

lmfao!
 

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Uh huh:



Don't worry stupid, when all you do is lie all day, it is easy to forget what you've already said.

You have a low IQ which doesn't help either.

Let's not start this again. You don't even know what liquidating assets mean.
 

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"The government shouldn't be a run like a business" - fratfraud

In other words, governments shouldn't have to abide by the laws of economics whatsoever. So it's the job of these hippy, pony-tailed new-age Keynesians to come up with stupid unworkable gimmicks which allow the political class to keep spending recklessly while escaping the grim financial repercussions as long as humanly possible. As Keynes said, "in the long run, we're all dead"

That's modern liberalism for ya, folks. This why people keep voting Democrat - Big Government is free! If people actually had to pay for all these insane political promises, EVERYONE WOULD BE A CONSERVATIVE.

"I listen to really, REALLY smart people in the educated world!" - fratfraud :missingte
 

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