http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090131/D9627HU00.html
This is an interesting article about the government actually GROWING BIGGER during this economic downturn. Completely disturbing.
Already, I've heard that approximately one in five workers is employed by some form of government, be it local, state, or federal. And now that number appears to be on the rise.
Remember, folks... The government does not create anything, it only takes from the private sector and from the taxed public. The less people work for the private sector, the less real money there is being created in the marketplace. The only way the government gets the money it needs to pay government workers is to take it from the taxpayers.
Speaking of bloated government... Did you hear the announcement during the recent Hillary Clinton Secretary of State ceremony? I believe it was Secretary Clinton herself who announced appreciation for the 20,000 workers in the State Department. 20,000? Really? How many of those jobs are political payoffs to big donors? "Hey, we need a position filled over in (insert glamerous foreign city). Who should we send to said city?" I can just see it.