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  1. Yes, jessi- in fact he and his cronies who are claiming to cut spending have hired a lawyer to defend DOMA now that the DOJ says it will no longer defend it. Guess who’s paying for that?

  2. in the US today there are
    twice as many people working for government at all
    levels than there are working in manufacturing: 22.5 million people working for
    government; 11.5 million working in manufacturing.

    In 1960, rather than the 2:1
    ratio of government workers to manufacturing works
    extant now, the ratio then was almost 2:1 the other way;
    that is, back in ’60 there were 15 million people in the US
    working in manufacturing and only 8.7 million working in
    government.

    Over the years
    the federal government’s anti-poverty program has blown
    up into 122 separate programs, which each having its
    own hierarchy; its own rules; its own bureaucracy, and
    they cost taxpayers $591 billion in ’09 alone… the last
    year apparently for which he had hard data. He notes
    that that is approximately $59,000 for every “poverty”
    family of four in the US, much of which gets lost of course
    in the bureaucratic red tape and never makes its way to
    those it was intended to serve.

    We produce world class bureaucracies…
    sufficient to employ two people for every one in
    manufacturing. If it weren’t so sad, this really would be funny

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