We are good at creating government jobs

by philg

The U.S. may be slipping in education, manufacturing, IQ (especially at credit rating agencies and among investors who bought mortgages), and economic growth. According to USA Today, however, we are doing great at creating jobs in local, state, and federal government: “Hiring leaps in public sector.”

“Governments added 76,800 jobs in the first three months of 2008, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“That’s the biggest jump in first-quarter hiring since a boom in 2002 that followed the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. By contrast, private companies collectively shed 286,000 workers in the first three months of 2008.”

Let’s hope that the tax fairy doesn’t come around asking those handful of us who are still working to pay these folks’ salaries…

8 thoughts on “We are good at creating government jobs”

  1. Excellent.

    There is hope for me to yet secure a pension and a retirement medical plan.

  2. You can be sure that taxes are on the way.

    First the politicians export all the lower and lower-middle class jobs. Then to cover it up, they hire a lot of the people at wages higher then they would ever see in the private sector. (Check out what the folks working at the airport making you take off your shoes and running a metal detector over your body make)

    Finally they tax all of the so called rich people, who have worked hard and given up a lot to get where they are.

    They’ll go after the corporations too, but most of them have been smart enough to move operations into other countries which gives them an escape mechanism.

    Gotta love the system.

  3. The “tax fairy” is the only way these folks get paid. Hold onto your wallets. These folks end up on the public payroll for the rest of their lives ( and beyond for a few unscrupulous ones) through pension plans. Something has got to give, unfortunately it will be the backs of the taxpayer.

  5. Heck I figured this out years ago! I work for the government so I get a fraction back of the taxes my working wife pays! Course with all these new jobs there are now more supervisors than actual workers at my work location…

    Jon I hope you have a high tolerance for low efficiency or a sharp tanto sword to dispatch yourself if you can’t endure the years of slack jawed apathy to earn that pension!

  6. Steve,

    I am trying to achieve a state of zen like catatonia so that I can function well in the public sector. I have lately developed a fondness for filling out forms.

    Do you think I am qualified?

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