According to this, the number of government employees has been steady at about 2 million since the 1960s.
But, the government continues to expand its influence over more segments of society.
How so?
According to New York University professor Paul Light, the true size of the federal government’s “blended workforce” is now somewhere between 7 million and 9 million people.
The biggest portion of the blended federal workforce consists of federal contractors. Today, there are about 3.7 million federal contractors—almost twice as many as there were in the 1960s.
And then there are:
In addition to government contractors, a large portion of the nonprofit sector exists to execute federal policies. In fact, federal grant money is the primary source of income for about 1.6 million nonprofit workers.
Finally comes this:
It’s not even clear which companies are receiving federal dollars. According to a 2014 report by the Government Accountability Office, only 2% to 7% of grant and contract awards on the website contained information that was fully consistent with agency records.
Go that? Nobody seems to know where the money’s going!
Drain the swamp!
You have to find out where the swamp is first. Then you have to identify its denizens.
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