Quote from libertad:
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This idea that the US is a straight up capitalist state is a myth.....
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"Uncle Sam employs over 2,704,000 workers and hires an average of 300,000 new employees each year to replace workers that transfer to other federal or private jobs, retire, or stop working for other reasons. Average annual salary of all full-time employees exceeded $67,000 as of January 2007.":
http://federaljobs.net/overview.htm
"Currently, over 34% of the all federal employees, approximately 919,683, are eligible for retirement and within the next year 50%, 1,352,475 workers, will be eligible for regular or early retirement. When employees bid on retirement vacancies, entry level jobs are created."
"According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 13 million Americans are employed in State Government.":
http://www.50statejobs.com/gov.html
This equates to more than 15 million Americans in non-manufacturing/non-producing jobs (and it could be more than 21 million) [non-capitalistic].
U.S. population= ~304,600,000:
http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html
They ALL have pensions: YOU are so generous!
Approximately 5% of the U.S. total population is non-capitalist= YOU pay their salary and pensions via taxes!
Approximately 1% of U.S. population is in prison:
http://lastfreevoice.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/one-percent-of-us-adult-population-in-prison/: YOU pay for their incarceration via taxes!
Right there is 6% of TOTAL U.S. population that YOU are paying for. Now, let's break it down to just the percentage of the working man and woman... the percentage gets REALLY ugly!
