VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 15:41:35 4/16/23 Sun
Author: Jasper
Subject: So how do we get out?

.
MILLIONS OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
The current federal government in the United States is made up of a huge number (millions) of people and their dependents “working for” the United States. There are also thousands of companies and millions of people working in the private sector but paid by government contracts.

According to USAFACTS.org, as of 2019, there were 23.7 million full-time and part-time employees of our federal, state, and local governments, including:

4.0 million Federal employees
5.5 million State employees
14.2 million Local government employees

The military is called out specifically in our constitution:

“Section 8: Powers of Congress: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States.”

As of 2019, there were about 1.4 million people in the military and about 750,000 people that work in national defense but that are not active-duty military.

How can a small government proponent overcome the huge number of people that have a vested interest in maintaining the current size, course and speed of this government? There is an entrenched federal government bureaucracy that will not want to voluntarily change from its current course. Federal government employees are not going to voluntarily eliminate their own jobs. And no federal (or any) politician will willingly step down from power.

https://survivalblog.com/2023/04/16/government-decline-next-big-thing-michael-x/

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-5
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.