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To: TigerLikesRooster

italy has roughly 60 million people and about 5% are government employees. Anybody know what the percentage is here in the US?


7 posted on 05/30/2010 5:02:45 AM PDT by johniegrad
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“italy has roughly 60 million people and about 5% are government employees. Anybody know what the percentage is here in the US?”

Probably about the same. The problem is the number of government employees, it’s what percent of the economy is run by the government. In Europe it’s on the order of 40 to 50%, over here a bit less, but closing quick.


20 posted on 05/30/2010 6:12:42 AM PDT by BobL
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“italy has roughly 60 million people and about 5% are government employees. Anybody know what the percentage is here in the US?”

According to Wolframalpha.com in the USA, 22.57 million are government employees, out of a workforce of about 155 million.

That makes the percentage of government employees about 14% in the USA.

Nearly 3 times the rate of socialist Italy? Wake up folks, the USA ALREADY IS SOCIALIST, BIG TIME!


22 posted on 05/30/2010 6:24:11 AM PDT by AnalogReigns
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