This is sickening. The Washington Times reports that the federal government now employs 2.15 million people! Remember, all government does is take. They take our money and spread it around. How on earth can we ever keep up with this expanding government?
The era of big government has returned with a vengeance, in the form of the largest federal work force in modern history.
The Obama administration says the government will grow to 2.15 million employees this year, topping 2 million for the first time since President Clinton declared that “the era of big government is over” and joined forces with a Republican-led Congress in the 1990s to pare back the federal work force.
Most of the increases are on the civilian side, which will grow by 153,000 workers, to 1.43 million people, in fiscal 2010.
The expansion could provide more ammunition to those arguing that the government is trying to do too much under President Obama. ….
The article goes on to note that from 1981 to 2008 the federal workforce averaged 1.1 to 1.2 million employees, so under Obama it will just about double. Someone’s gonna have to pay for all of these federal employees, hence the tax increases in Obama’s latest budget.
