Posted on 12/08/2017 4:36:09 PM PST by Olog-hai
Employment in manufacturing in the United States has increased by 189,000 in the year since Donald Trump was elected president, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
At the same time, employment in the federal government has declined by 3,000 since Trump was elected.
In November 2016, there were 12,325,000 people employed in manufacturing in the United States. By this November, that had climbed to 12,514,000.
“Since a recent low in November 2016, manufacturing employment has increased by 189,000,” the BLS said in the press release it put out this morning with the November employment numbers. …
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Government jobs down only 3,000?! I thought there was a hiring freeze, plus many positions unfilled. Somewhere they are making up those attrition losses.
But...but...0bama said that Manufacturing was DEAD and those jobs weren’t coming back! Robots were going to do our jobs or something...
WINNING! MAGA!
You are right! I am so glad to see those job numbers increase.
Every department has unfilled positions, lots of them. Government tends to overhire by 30% or better.
3,000 down is a start - now let’s get exponential. Starting with assistants to the assistant to The Assistant Book Duster.
I am sure that the Border Patrol and ICE numbers are up.
When it gets to 30,000 per month, I'll celebrate!
“Government tends to overhire by 30% or better.”
Sounds low to me, I think government overhires by at least two to one. Of course that is assuming that the task to be done is worth doing. Much of what the feds do is counterproductive to begin with so the optimum would be for them to hire no one in many departments. How can you say what the overhire factor really is when the whole department could best serve the nation by being eliminated.
My guess is we could get rid of 30,000 government jobs, as a start, and not notice it.
As my boss once told me in the private sector, when I asked about vacant positions, “as of today, you are fully manned”. Government has so much waste AND overmanned departments that 3,000 is hardly noticeable.
We could lose about 80% of the drones, and government performance would not be noticeably affected.
Yup. More like feds down 30,000. I think they left out a zero.
Winning....now to cut about 100,000 more federal employees... Starting with the department of Education and EPA....
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