293 Government Employees

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Government employees are defined by the fact that taxpayers are responsible for their salaries, and they are not subject to feedback through Market Pressures. So many people work for government, almost 15% of the labor force, well over 20 million people, that it's a significant voting block, and acts like one, especially the union aspect. It's easy to understand how democracy is distorted when one group has the power to make everyone else pay for them, and it's easy to understand why the ideology of most government employees is socialist, because the jobs they do are socialist in nature, and they are the very first beneficiaries of wealth redistribution. Government reeks of Marxist totalitarianism, but as long as we acknowledge that’s a problem, we can keep it more-or-less under control.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Unfortunately, out of their own self-interest, government employees promulgate the false narrative that people working for government could get better jobs in the Private Sector but they remain in government out of a sense of moral sacrifice; not-withstanding the fact that government employees have better pay, ironclad job security, great benefits, little oversight, lots of vacation, and a light workload. Government jobs are the dreamjobs of socialists everywhere, directly threatening liberty & Capitalism. When the government employee voting block exceeds the rest of us, America's go-getter, get-rich mentality will succumb to the same malaise that engulfs the rest of the world because the warm blanket of socialism numbs ambition.</p>