>More Americans are employed by industry and small businesses (as it should be) than by government. sure, millions of businesses if you divide it that way. Mea

>More Americans are employed by industry and small businesses (as it should be) than by government. sure, millions of businesses if you divide it that way. Meanwhile the government is still the largest single employer in the us. Wal-Mart's global market, by comparison (the largest private market in the US) is 2.1m. >Why would you think there needs to be one giant employer instead of a healthy market of many? Why is Google bigger than a startup? They deal with more money and people. The government isn't running like a business but is still running on a scale of managing trillions of dollars and caring for hundreds of millions of americans. Why wouldn't our government be large? Also, private sector hasn't exactly been stable the last 15 years if you're a normal worker. That's pretty much the one advantadge of public sector until employers can't throw out employees like livestock whenever they fancy. People claim to want more teachers but treat them horribly.