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Title: Government Workers Now Outnumber Manufacturing Workers by 9,932,000
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CNSNews.com
URL Source: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ter ... -manufacturing-workers-9932000
Published: Sep 3, 2016
Author: Terence P. Jeffrey
Post Date: 2016-09-03 13:27:04 by Hondo68
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Keywords: GOP party of, big government, open borders, nanny state
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(CNSNews.com) - Government employees in the United States outnumber manufacturing employees by 9,932,000, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Federal, state and local government employed 22,213,000 people in August, while the manufacturing sector employed 12,281,000. The BLS has published seasonally-adjusted month-by-month employment data for both government and manufacturing going back to 1939. For half a century—from January 1939 through July 1989—manufacturing employment always exceeded government employment in the United States, according to these numbers. Then, in August 1989, the seasonally-adjusted employment numbers for government exceeded the employment numbers for manufacturing for the first time. That month, manufacturing employed 17,964,000 and government employed 17,989,000. Manufacturing employment in the United States had peaked a decade before that in June 1979 at 19,553,000 From August 2015 to August 2016 seasonally-adjusted manufacturing employment declined by 37,000--dropping from 12,318,000 last August to 12,281,000 this August. The 22,213,000 government employees in August, according to the BLS, included 2,790,000 federal employees, 5,120,000 state government employees, and 14,303,000 local government employees. Poster Comment: In 1989 the US changed from a free market economy, to a big government nanny state, open borders tyranny, aka Atzlan. By the end of Reagan's second term where the lines cross on the chart, the country was hosed. 
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#3. To: hondo68, buckeroo (#0)
Technically, anyone who pays taxes is "working" for the government. We are all tax slaves. Americans collectively spent more on taxes in 2016 than they did on food, clothing, and housing combined.
Can you provide a source for that metric? That is an eye opening KPI about what is wrong with this goddamned country ruled by a bunch of phuckedupped, international élitists in Washington DC.
From Breitbart: This year Americans will collectively give more money to the government in taxes than they will spend on on food, clothing, and housing combined, a new report from the Tax Foundation reveals. The report shows 31 percent of the nation’s income will go to taxes — $3.3 trillion in federal taxes and $1.6 trillion in state and local taxes: In a demonstration of just how much money Americans will spend on taxes this year, the Tax Foundation has calculated that not only will the bill to Uncle Sam be more than most personal expenses, it will take the nation, as a whole, until April 24 to earn enough to cover the cost.
I am asking you to research the credentials of the sources, now. If there is truth, we need to examine [the] data. As an opin, you scored a +100 with that earlier metric. It is important for some of us as true American consitutionalists worried of and about government overreach. I visit a lot of web sites to collect data. I have not seen the data or even the metric you showed today. You made a difference but it has to be supported with facts. Thanks, buckeroo
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#6. To: Deckard, hondo68 (#3)
Americans collectively spent more on taxes in 2016 than they did on food, clothing, and housing combined.
#15. To: buckeroo (#6)
Can you provide a source for that metric?
#17. To: Deckard (#15)
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