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Monday, March 25, 2013 8:16 PM


Federal Spending Per Non-Government Worker


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Here is a pair of interesting charts from reader Tim Wallace.

Ratio of Workers



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Tim used non-seasonally adjusted numbers from the BLS, subtracting the number of government employees from total employed to produce the above chart.

Spending Per Non-Government Worker



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Tim used government spending records as posted on the White House website and data from the first chart to compute the amount of spending per non-government worker.

Obama claims the cutbacks will hurt the economy.

Federal government spending now amounts to $31,679 per non-government employee, annually. This is a spending problem,  not a revenue problem.

Mike "Mish" Shedlock
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