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Old 05-16-2010, 09:29 AM
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and looking for numbers.

I seen where the government hired 16,000 new people last year during a horrible recession. They said that brought government employees to a staggering 22,516,000 people.

Yes, you read that right, 22 1/2 million people receiving taxpayer paychecks.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I read somewhere that the total number of people employed in USA is around 141,000,000.


Now if I divide 22.5 into 141 I get around 6. That means that 1 in 6 people work for the government (us). My math tells me that 5 people are supporting 1 person. How do we do that?
I hope someone can either correct me or tell me I'm wrong.