Chart: Government Payroll Has Now Replaced Goods-Producing Jobs

by the Left Coast Rebel

This one is circling the net, I just saw it at Atlas Shrugs. Let's rewind back to what would be considered LCR eons in time. One month ago, to be precise. I wrote this:

Many of us in the limited government movement have mistrusted every move that the Obama administration has made regarding changes to financial regulations, the economy, bailouts, takeovers of industries, etc. You name it. Above all, we don't trust the rhetoric vs. the reality. We don't trust that Obama desires to merely 'right' the markets and the free market in particular. We don't trust his credentials. We don't trust his past. We don't trust the present and myriad radical initiatives to assume historic Federal control and tentacles into unprecedented areas of American life and economy. For the most part, we don't trust that he even believes in or trusts freedom, free minds and free markets; the American model of capitalism, entrepeneurism.

Followed by a simple chart that proved my theme:




Today's accompanying chart for the theme above? Well it is a little different but does spell out in a line chart instead of bar; the trend of our society, massively accelerated in the last few years, steroids + gasoline under the Obamanation. Our country is on and has been on a collision course with tyranny and we have reached an inflection point. As Pamela Geller points out our country is in the midst of a terrible cancer - our blessed individual freedoms and rights are being jettisoned for collectivism, group thought, group identity, statism and the evils of world history. The 'progressives' both Democrat and Republican. We must end this madness and vote out every single one of them with those that respect the will and integrity of the Constitution.

If this chart does not make you feel ill then I weep for you and for America for you know, nor deserve, either:

To dispel any myth of the notion that 'this chart is explained by outsourcing, etc' Business Outsider :

In the just-so story of the evolution of our economy, our old manufacturing based economy has been replaced by an innovative knowledge economy. That's not quite true.

In fact, the decline of the jobs in goods producing sectors of the economy--construction, manufacturing, mining and agriculture--has largely been met with an increase in jobs on the government payroll. We've gone from providing jobs in profit-making private industry to providing jobs in profit-eating government work. Toward the end of 2007, the total number of government jobs exceeded the total number of goods producing jobs. Welcome to the government payroll economy.