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.
I’ve never joined. So many people on here link it I don’t feel like I need to.
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.
I find it interesting to focus on a couple bucks lost on paper for a guy that’s net worth fluctuates up and down by the more than the value of twitter on a month to month basis.
I find it interesting that you ignore the failure that is/was Twitter due to Musk's leadership.
You find it interesting that I don’t care about the success or failure of a service that I do not use?
Yes. I find it interesting that you are oblivious that the leader of that huge failure is overseeing the dismantling of the Federal Government.
So what I gather you are saying is that Elon has single handily decrease the size, reach, and amount of money that twitter has.
…and now he is bringing that ability to the US Government.
Yes please.
So instead of finding ways for government work to actually happen more efficiently through synergy and system leverage, you are in favor of breaking responsibility and funding into 50 different pieces or even worse privatization where gross margin outweighs public good.
See what services Iowa can provide when the state exodus of people and jobs continue. How far is too far to drive to school or a hospital or get mail?
Who in the state decides standard work week, vacation time, who can vote or legal age of consent. The haves end up bending over the have nots. If you are posting here you are most definitely a have not.
Based on my last snark comment I lack reasoning?
Why because I probably have a few different political opinions than you?
The unprovable thing I know to be true is that we are all wrong, and a couple hundred years from some other fools will be posting on this forum, under its 4,284 name change, and be pulling up our old posts and laughing about what rubes we were.
I miss the days when when it was ok to have different opinions.
Are they going to take mail to all the rural areas and lose millions of dollars.
Yep, and 1/3 of the govt workers are vets located in all the states.
