#2
In 1960, only 5% of the workforce nationwide was employed by some level of government. Now it is 20%.
Unless and until that number goes back down to under 10%, every other attempt to fix this country will fail. No publicly employed person can ever be made to understand a policy which diminishes their paycheck, and they vote to act on that imperative 100% of the time.
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#4
Romney had it right. We've crossed the 50% tipping point. The rivets have already begun to pop in the gov't supported urban tribal areas. The next few months and years should be very interesting. Not pleasant, but very interesting.
"Not all democrats are horse thieves, but I'm quite certain all horse thieves are democrats."
~ Warren Delano
#6
20%+ of jobs are government jobs? Just another form of welfare. This doesn't seem to help the local economies much in the looting and burning areas of the city. It doesn't seem to put a halt on drug trafficking. Like most other recent wars, e.g. war on drugs, WOT, war on poverty they tend to be failures with no end in sight or prospect of winning. They are just economy drains.
#7
We have to remember (and I mention this to my government worker friends from time to time), that the government employee doesn't really 'pay' taxes, rather he or she 'leaves' them in the government funding cash bin that the folks working in the private sector fill.
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
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#8
…15.5 percent of the jobs nationwide were government jobs.
Given Baltimore’s proximity to DC and the number of Military installations in Maryland 5% over the national average doesn’t seem shocking.
#9
I can think of 6 of them that are likely to go empty before this whole show is over with. (I'm not saying anybody's guilty. I'm saying, at some point you decide you'd rather not listen to that BS any more.)
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[Wash Times] Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Tuesday that if elected, she would try to expand President Obama's deportation amnesty to more illegal immigrants, saying this administration has left out a number of aliens who deserve to be granted legal status.
Speaking in Las Vegas at a Cinco de Mayo meeting focused on immigration, Mrs. Clinton also called for granting attorneys to illegal immigrants facing the complex immigration system, and said she would like to re-examine detention to ensure more illegal immigrants are released as they await deportation.
Mrs. Clinton delivered on just about every question from immigrant rights activists, who had been pressing her to reject Mr. Obama's detention policies and go beyond his amnesty.
#5
I believe the Clinton family motto is - Laws are for Little People or something like "les lois sont pour petites gens". I'm sure JFM can provide a better version.
Republican Mike Huckabee entered the race for his party's presidential nomination in 2016 on Tuesday, looking to break out from an ever-widening field by drawing on the support of social conservatives attuned to his culture-warrior message.
Huckabee, 59, a former governor of Arkansas and former host of a popular Fox News Channel program, made his announcement in Hope, the small town that both he and Democrat Bill Clinton claim as their home town.
#5
He helps highlight the variety in the Republican party by being for big government and far right on social policies. The flip side of that is he could split the republicans and cause religious folks to stay home.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Republican Mike Huckabee entered the race for his party's presidential nomination in 2016 on Tuesday, looking to break out from an ever-widening field by drawing on the support of social conservatives attuned to his culture-warrior message.
