The Party of "Smaller Government" Keeps Growing
As if we didn't need more evidence of big government growing bigger and bigger, here comes a story about not only the number of federal employees on the rise, but the increase in government-funded contractors, and organizations that receive government grants:
"Roll all of those together -- and mix in the numbers of postal workers and military personnel on the federal payroll -- and the 'true size' of the federal government stands at 14.6 million employees, said Paul C. Light, the study's author and a government professor at New York University.
That compares with 12.1 million employees in 2002, said Light, who has tracked the growth of government for years and has data for as far back as 1990. The latest increase is almost entirely due to contractors, whose ranks swelled by 2.5 million since 2002, Light wrote in his 10-page research brief."
Comments (4)
8
Could a lot of that increase in contractors be Katrina related?
Published: October 12, 2006 11:13 AM
Chestertonian
Not like that makes it any more valid, especially considering the giant f up that gov't Katrina "support" has been.
Published: October 12, 2006 3:59 PM
party king
I like effen lifestyle. Work hard, party hard - vip all the way to a-list nightclub
Published: November 30, 2006 11:19 AM
Reactionary
8,
Iraq-related, most likely.
This was yet another sucker-play Bush delivered that a lot of conservatives fell for: the bloated federal payroll would be SLASHED by the addition of lean, mean contractors. In retrospect, it looks like plain old bureaucrats may be cheaper.
Published: November 30, 2006 1:07 PM