Guess who's hiring?
Forbes has combed the job openings in the fastest growing sector of the economy:
"Uncle Sam will hire 600,000 people over the next four years, a 50%increase over the previous four, reports Max Stier of the Washington-based Partnership for Public Service, a group that promotes government jobs. 'In times like these, there's no place where you can make a bigger difference on a broader set of issues than the federal government,' Stier says. 'Whether you're trying to revive the economy or address global warming or improve this country's competitiveness on a global stage, every consequential issue that faces us as a nation begins with the government's response.'"
"Uncle Sam will hire 600,000 people over the next four years, a 50%increase over the previous four, reports Max Stier of the Washington-based Partnership for Public Service, a group that promotes government jobs. 'In times like these, there's no place where you can make a bigger difference on a broader set of issues than the federal government,' Stier says. 'Whether you're trying to revive the economy or address global warming or improve this country's competitiveness on a global stage, every consequential issue that faces us as a nation begins with the government's response.'"
I read this with great animosity and find it difficult to come up with the correct words that would be acceptable for a blog. I'll leave my personal stereotype, formed from many encounters with government employees over the years, out of the post.
Here's the bigger problem. The average taxpayer earns $40k/year while the average government worker earns $70k/year. The people who are supposed to be the employer are earning less than the employees. When a private employer hits this wall, one would expect that he would close his doors.
If we do some rough math calculations in our head, we shouldn't even need any hard facts to figure this one out. Way to many government workers and way to few taxpayers creates a big mathematical problem for even the most creative government accountant.
To top it off it is spun as a cost saving measure! Somehow a huge pool of employees that produce absolutely no goods are going to solve all of the problems. Their "services" alone will be the economic force that turns this ship around? That is like adding crew members to a ship that is running out of fuel.
The idiocy of this makes me mad, the apparent lunacy of it is what scares me. The people making these plans are very well educated people. Harvard, Cornell, Northwestern, etc. All of these fine folks that drive this surely have a plan and they're not telling the truth about anything. Any mention of this and you're surely a conspiracy theory nutjob right? Any dissent is quickly marginalized and discounted as mean-spirited, racist, hill-jack, backwards, and uneducated.
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