Ugh. This data is somewhat obnoxiously wrong.<p>- The federal gov't employs ~2.8 million people, not 29 million [1].<p>- State and local gov'ts employ ~17 million, half of which are education (a little ~6 million are elementary and secondary) [2].<p>- Let me also note that the topline figure is about ~150 million jobs [1]. I have no idea where he cuts out the retired and young from.<p>Very quippy; very tantalizing to ideologues; very empirically inaccurate.<p>Ugh.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_201.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_201.htm</a>
[2] <a href="http://www2.census.gov/govs/apes/10stlus.txt" rel="nofollow">http://www2.census.gov/govs/apes/10stlus.txt</a>
Cute. But I would like to see a dynamically updating breakdown of all countries, for comparison, of all this data. Sadly, what governments publish may not be factual.