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Spartacist
Joined: 18 Feb 2012
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 8:36 am Post subject: US Federal employment at postwar low |
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For those who charge the 'socialist' Obama with rapidly expanding government, news just in from the reality-based community - US federal employment per capita is at a postwar low.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=daT |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 9:19 am Post subject: |
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Yep! And that won't change anytime soon. I believe that the graph and numbers includes military personnel. If you take them out of the equation, the graph would not be as dramatic (but yes, non-military fed government employees/capita is historically very low right now too).
OPM's numbers, most recent in 2010 |
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