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Nothing like 75% government workers. Look who the guy has shot. The first man killed, on Wednesday night, worked for NOAA, an agency of the federal government. As far as I know, he's been the only government worker so far. That's one out of seven.

The entire Rockville economy is govt driven. It is not the direct employees. It is the workers for all the contractors. ie; Rockwell, Boeing, Raytheon, Alliant Tech, Inland Motors, services companies, Grumman, Northrop, Ship builders, munitions makers, and on and on and on..... There would be one general store, two bars, a church, and a post office in Rockville if it were not for the gubmint and it's tenticles. The people who live there are contracting officers, secretaries, account representatives, telecom reps, repair/service grunts, hustlers for their share of the federal pie. Some of them vital and everything good. Most parasitic and unable to earn a buck in a competetive environment. I used to be one of them, I know! I used to make a living off of taking $4,000 copy machines and modifying them for shipboard use and cause them to cost $9,000 a copy. One aircraft carrier has about 75 copy machines. Even submarines have copiers! I used to teach navy grunts how to fix them. When they could not fix them, they flew us out to fix them.