Ugh. This data is somewhat obnoxiously wrong. - The federal gov't employs ~2.8 million people, not 29 million [1]. - State and local gov'ts employ ~17 million

Ugh. This data is somewhat obnoxiously wrong. - The federal gov't employs ~2.8 million people, not 29 million [1]. - State and local gov'ts employ ~17 million, half of which are education (a little ~6 million are elementary and secondary) [2]. - 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. Very quippy; very tantalizing to ideologues; very empirically inaccurate. Ugh. [1] http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_201.htm http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_201.htm [2] http://www2.census.gov/govs/apes/10stlus.txt http://www2.census.gov/govs/apes/10stlus.txt