We Now Have Our Smallest Government in 45 Years

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We Now Have Our Smallest Government in 45 Years

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So how badly has this actually hurt the job market? The Hamilton folks estimate that, if the share of government workers was back to 2007 levels, we'd have about 1.7 million more jobs than we do today. Now, did we have the balance right before the recession? That's for a much longer conversation. But it's certainly food for thought.

This is quite an interesting fact. Lowest rate in 45 years, and the right is still claiming that Obama is growing government.
 
Oh, fucking puuuuuuuLLEEEEEASE!

Are capable of disputing the facts in the article?
I'm capable of recognizing that the mere number of bureaucrats isn't the only measure of how bloated the federal bureaucracy is.

But then again, I'm not the one willing to walk through a lava flow to fluff the Boiking.
 
We Now Have Our Smallest Government in 45 Years

Public_Sector_FRED-thumb-615x368-95097.png


So how badly has this actually hurt the job market? The Hamilton folks estimate that, if the share of government workers was back to 2007 levels, we'd have about 1.7 million more jobs than we do today. Now, did we have the balance right before the recession? That's for a much longer conversation. But it's certainly food for thought.

This is quite an interesting fact. Lowest rate in 45 years, and the right is still claiming that Obama is growing government.


And now we have a chart from FRED that says so--:badgrin:

obama-balloon.jpg


While the private-sector is drowning under a perpetual recessionary storm, U.S. regulatory agencies are flourishing. "If the federal government’s regulatory operation were a business, it would be one of the 50 biggest in the country in terms of revenues, and the third largest in terms of employees, with more people working for it than McDonald’s, Ford, Disney and Boeing combined," writes John Merline of Investors.com.

Indeed, the federal regulatory business is thriving, and if there is one "victory" President Obama can declare, this is it, because government regulation has grown rapidly under his watch.

Regulatory agencies have seen their combined budgets grow a healthy 16% since 2008, topping $54 billion, according to the annual "Regulator's Budget," compiled by George Washington University and Washington University in St. Louis.

That's at a time when the overall economy grew a paltry 5%.

Since Obama took office, 75 new major regulations have been enacted, costing $38 billion annually, according to a study by the Heritage Foundation. "No other president has imposed as high a number or cost in a comparable time period," wrote James Gattuso, the study’s author.

The Heritage study predicts that this flood of new red tape will only intensify, as hundreds of new regulations will flow from the tentacles of ObamaCare, the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law, and the EPA’s war on global warming.

"When you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone people need to run from"--Barack Obama
 
We Now Have Our Smallest Government in 45 Years

Public_Sector_FRED-thumb-615x368-95097.png


So how badly has this actually hurt the job market? The Hamilton folks estimate that, if the share of government workers was back to 2007 levels, we'd have about 1.7 million more jobs than we do today. Now, did we have the balance right before the recession? That's for a much longer conversation. But it's certainly food for thought.

This is quite an interesting fact. Lowest rate in 45 years, and the right is still claiming that Obama is growing government.


And now we have a chart from FRED that says so--:badgrin:

obama-balloon.jpg


While the private-sector is drowning under a perpetual recessionary storm, U.S. regulatory agencies are flourishing. "If the federal government’s regulatory operation were a business, it would be one of the 50 biggest in the country in terms of revenues, and the third largest in terms of employees, with more people working for it than McDonald’s, Ford, Disney and Boeing combined," writes John Merline of Investors.com.

Indeed, the federal regulatory business is thriving, and if there is one "victory" President Obama can declare, this is it, because government regulation has grown rapidly under his watch.

Regulatory agencies have seen their combined budgets grow a healthy 16% since 2008, topping $54 billion, according to the annual "Regulator's Budget," compiled by George Washington University and Washington University in St. Louis.

That's at a time when the overall economy grew a paltry 5%.

Since Obama took office, 75 new major regulations have been enacted, costing $38 billion annually, according to a study by the Heritage Foundation. "No other president has imposed as high a number or cost in a comparable time period," wrote James Gattuso, the study’s author.

The Heritage study predicts that this flood of new red tape will only intensify, as hundreds of new regulations will flow from the tentacles of ObamaCare, the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law, and the EPA’s war on global warming.

"When you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone people need to run from"--Barack Obama

Lemme guess: You don't know what FRED stands for.

amiright?
 
Oh, fucking puuuuuuuLLEEEEEASE!

Are capable of disputing the facts in the article?

None of the right wing shitheads can. Fox tells them Obama has given us the biggest government in history from his marxist/communist/socialist policies. They don't care about the truth, only about what they want to hear.
Name one significant bureaucracy/law/rule/regulation/EO/signing statement of Chimpola that Bioking has trashed completely.

just one.

C'mon....Dazzle us with your professed love for smaller gubmint...Bring it.
 
This is quite an interesting fact. Lowest rate in 45 years, and the right is still claiming that Obama is growing government.
The report is from The Hamilton Project, do you know who they are? Did you do ANY research on them?

Of course you didn't.
 
do they have a graph showing govt workers/ blue eyed people?

because that would be almost as meaningful

In what way?

it would be yet another distinction without a difference.



having the (allegedly) smallest govt per capita in 45 years means nothing.
zero. zip. the donut.

i'd be interested (but not interested enough to do the research) to see how many of the alleged lay offs were due to attrition and how many were part time temporary workers (census) that obama used to try to inflate employment numbers.
 
Still WAY to damn big.

You can't fix decades of GOP huge government overnight. Just have to keep sure as few huge government GOP idiots are as far away from office as possible, then the nation can finally return to the greatness the founding fathers wanted.
 
Are capable of disputing the facts in the article?

None of the right wing shitheads can. Fox tells them Obama has given us the biggest government in history from his marxist/communist/socialist policies. They don't care about the truth, only about what they want to hear.
Name one significant bureaucracy/law/rule/regulation/EO/signing statement of Chimpola that Bioking has trashed completely.

just one.

C'mon....Dazzle us with your professed love for smaller gubmint...Bring it.

"Chimpola that bioking"? :wtf:
 

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