ChuckKlosterman's little essay in the New York Times Magazine “The
Ethicist” section naturally got me thinking about conservative
crackpots be they Tea Party, Evangelical or just plain greedy,
intolerant and angry old men who have a visceral belief that
government spending is out of control and therefore it is right to
hold Obama-care as hostage to the debt ceiling. Today's “Off theCharts” report of State Government spending by Floyd Norris puts
that belief in question, but good luck getting that message out to
those who choose to be willfully ignorant.
I
have been much more optimistic about the so called anemic job
creation of this current recovery because government, state
government especially, has been reducing the head count
considerably. The growth in employment is against this headwind
which I consider very healthy as it means a reduction in the
percent of government in the economy. I have been blogging about
this less government good news for about a year now. “The
proportion of civilian employees in each state in comparison to
government jobs was 16 percent, the lowest figure since 2001”
according to Norris's article so that the profligate “W” era has
be erased. I don't agree with Obama-care, but it was enacted fair
and square and so was the President. On the other hand this current
Tea Party tantrum about the debt ceilng appears to be sour grapes.
Another
interesting point in the report comes up about my fair State of
Connecticut where we will be re-electing a Democrat Governor soon
because the irrelevant Republican party will lead the charge against
out of control State Government spending. Irrelevant because
Norris's article shows that Connecticut has a 14.3 percent government
to civilian employee rate, 8th lowest in the nation! The
irony is that eight out of the top ten bigger state governments are
GOP wacko dominated.
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