According to the Brookings Institute and Census Bureau - Fed.gov employment has risen from about 1.0% of total population in 1939, to about 4.4% today (including full-time contractors). State-local governments have also grown 4X or more in that time also.
Today about 17% of the entire labor force is employed by government at some level
America has a skills and labor shortage, because tens of millions of Americans are employees of the bloated nanny-state, which is highly inefficient and produces almost nothing. Moreover, an increase in Government employment is corollated to higher regulation, with the dead-hand of government oppressing productive industry.
America suffers from the most expensive government in the world. Add to that the deficits and massive debts it takes to keep all this alive - and we are going to get our asses kicked.
yeah
the stasis
e German police state
affirmative action
diversity ( state religion )
bolshevik dept of education too