The federal government is the largest employer in the United States....
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1. The freak out about parks employees is especially funny
2. The post office is not technically a government agency but is some kind of weird hybrid. It's also worthless and very poorly run.
3. Seems like they wrote a LOT of illegitimate social security checks
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5. The federal government is far too bloated and needs a LOT of fat shaved off
Well some of those citizens are children. How many investors does Walmart have for their 1.6 million employees?
With Walmart's profit sharing program I'd say that easily a 1M are stock holders...
So 1.6 employees for every shareholder. Even if only half the US citizens are investors in the government that is 85.25 taxpayers for 1 employee.
LOL...check out this guy...he thinks he's not paying for shipping. That Amazon sends things for free on THEIR dime.
If the Walmart employee to shareholder ratio is 1.6:1,.. then I believe "half" would made the citizen to taxpayer ratio 2:1...
These same people don't think they pay for using their credit/debit cards.
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How he's not embarassed to display his ignorance in front of strangers is mindblowing.
The idea that the federal government has become bloated with employees is largely a myth. The actual federal workforce hasn't grown much. Spending has increased but it is not because we have hired boatloads of federal workers. We have more contractors. A lot of the federal "bloat" is going to private companies that are funded by the federal government.
This is my math. Tell me where I went wrong.
Walmart investors 1,000,000
Walmart employees1,600,000
Employees/Investors=1.6 employees per investor
Investors/Employees= .625 investors per 1 employee
US Taxpayers 170,000,000
US Employees 2,000,000
Employees/Taxpayers = .0118 employees per taxpayer
Taxpayers/Employees = 85 taxpayers per 1 employee
Your math is fine,.. Difference here is that you are comparing US government employees to US taxpayers, while I am comparing US citizens to US taxpayers... That is what the original "half" comment was pointed at.
And I only used half the American citizens in my math. If we include all citizens there are over 170 American citizens for every government employee.
Putting even more power into a super huge company has zero downsides. Sounds like too big to fail to me.
Speaking of Musk, all the haters were sure that Twitter was going to burn to the ground after he took over and started cleaning house.
I just checked, and the website/app is still functioning.
I mean, it's a cesspool without any moderation and it's worth way less now than it was, by many estimates.
I had enough and left it. It's flooded with bots, porn, and terrible takes. The pay for amplification finally did me in.
Imagine every single tweet is responded by 15 shitty memes that only H4AD finds funny.
I couldn't take it anymore.
The brand has lost more than 70% of its value since he purchased it.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/vi...xt=Brand Decline,had fallen to $673.3 million.
It used to be my go-to for memes. But after Musk took over, I only saw memes from people who paid for blue checkmarks and not memes from the people I followed.
