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2015-05-06 -Land of the Free

20.7% of Jobs in Baltimore Are Government Jobs

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Posted by Fred 2015-05-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Well, most cities have this condition.
At least 20% are working, but it still is a drain on budgets.

The other 31% are raising money for this but also the federal boot.

The other half eats.

Posted by newc 2015-05-06 00:35|| 2015-05-06 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 In 1960, only 5% of the workforce nationwide was employed by some level of government. Now it is 20%.

Unless and until that number goes back down to under 10%, every other attempt to fix this country will fail. No publicly employed person can ever be made to understand a policy which diminishes their paycheck, and they vote to act on that imperative 100% of the time.

Posted by no mo uro 2015-05-06 05:28|| 2015-05-06 05:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Only 20.7%?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-05-06 06:01|| 2015-05-06 06:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Romney had it right. We've crossed the 50% tipping point. The rivets have already begun to pop in the gov't supported urban tribal areas. The next few months and years should be very interesting. Not pleasant, but very interesting.

"Not all democrats are horse thieves, but I'm quite certain all horse thieves are democrats."
~ Warren Delano

Posted by Besoeker 2015-05-06 06:09|| 2015-05-06 06:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Delano as in Franklin Delano Roosevelt ? Warren must have known he was related to the original horse thief.

Posted by Gruling Lumplump6227 2015-05-06 07:44|| 2015-05-06 07:44|| Front Page Top

#6 20%+ of jobs are government jobs? Just another form of welfare. This doesn't seem to help the local economies much in the looting and burning areas of the city. It doesn't seem to put a halt on drug trafficking. Like most other recent wars, e.g. war on drugs, WOT, war on poverty they tend to be failures with no end in sight or prospect of winning. They are just economy drains.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-05-06 07:48|| 2015-05-06 07:48|| Front Page Top

#7 We have to remember (and I mention this to my government worker friends from time to time), that the government employee doesn't really 'pay' taxes, rather he or she 'leaves' them in the government funding cash bin that the folks working in the private sector fill.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2015-05-06 08:28|| 2015-05-06 08:28|| Front Page Top

#8 …15.5 percent of the jobs nationwide were government jobs.

Given Baltimore’s proximity to DC and the number of Military installations in Maryland 5% over the national average doesn’t seem shocking.

Posted by DepotGuy 2015-05-06 10:34|| 2015-05-06 10:34|| Front Page Top

#9 I can think of 6 of them that are likely to go empty before this whole show is over with. (I'm not saying anybody's guilty. I'm saying, at some point you decide you'd rather not listen to that BS any more.)

Posted by ed in texas 2015-05-06 15:06|| 2015-05-06 15:06|| Front Page Top

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