Quote Originally Posted by Junjie View Post
Your source is complete BS. It erroneously claims that 22 million people work for the government. In reality, the federal workforce was 2.13 million in 2012. If you add the postal service [[not most people's definition of "working for the government") that gets you up to about ~2.7 million.





http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-215

http://www.governing.com/news/headli...azon-deal.html

You are only looking at federal government jobs.
Need to include state level employees also. The comparison points to the shrinking private vs goverment [[tax dollar supported) jobs.