Where are the jobs? Does the public sector really put many people to work? Plenty of Republicans like to say the answer is no, and they say the private sector is the only place people get put to work.
But The Economist wanted to know what the reality is, so they did some research and found some facts and put together this handy dandy graphic. On it the top ten biggest employers on the whole entire planet are ranked. And (not really a) surprise!! Seven of ten are government-run entities and only three are private sector businesses. The Economist blog post goes on to tell us:
... governments employ a lot of people: in our chart of the ten biggest global employers, below, seven are government-run. America's defence department had 3.2m people on its payroll last year, equivalent to 1% of the country's population. China, the world's most populous nation and a big military spender, employs 2.3m people in its armed forces. And the number of people working for the National Health Service in England is equivalent to over 2.5% of the country's population. The three private companies are Walmart, McDonald's and Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Company, a subsidiary of which is Foxconn, a secretive electronics manufacturer.
This is of course not to suggest that more people work, as a whole, in the public sector than in the private sector. But it's interesting to see just how many million people do work for these seven enormous public-run entities.
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Dude! If Walmart and McDonald's combine their forces they could take over the world!!
hell, they already lead in the production of welfare recipients and repubs are working towards minimum wage/no benefit corporatism (fascism?) .......... looks like we're on the right track AFTER all!!!!!
Why is Exxon Mobil all over your ad spots?? Well, I guess that I'm being cheeky and doing it on your site!
This was a really good pick up and nice original work from a magazine I pretend to read to act smart!
Not to forget the 200,000 plus workers Gov. Perry added to the Texas payroll.
That is just more propaganda and lies of the Republicans. Of course they won't admit that public sector jobs it's too close to being the dread "socialism". lol
I am so tired of their lies and misinformation. Time and time again they say the same thing even after they have been proven WRONG. Not once but twice.
Proven wrong. How so? Learn a little history, when Reagan cut taxes from 78% to 35% revenue to the government increased because the private sector created 50,000,000 jobs. Compare that to your leader who has managed 120,000 created jobs a month which is not even enough to cover the the new 18 years old entering the marketplace. Yes even when Clinton was in office he not only benefited from the Reagan job boom but he also had a Republican house and senate whe helped him pass welfare reform and balance the budget. Are you just willingly ignorant of these facts or are you just a drone?
Interesting, did anyone notice the label under the seal for the Department of "Defence"? I wonder if those are the folks who are supposed to be building de fence along the border? (BTW, it is spelled correctly in the seal of course. Duh!). Good thing they're not the Dept of Educashun.
it's not a misspelling, actually. the economist is published in british english, so they use spellings like favour, colour, and defence. that's all =)
I wonder about the people who are asking why we are not inspecting more of our fruits and vegetables. By chance would that be a government positions? We need both government and private sector jobs. it should never be one or the other. There is a need for both. People wake up! It is not about jobs for the people it is about one job and one job only for them. The presidency. We need to vote in droves.
It state's the obvious,how in the hell are the republicans going to create jobs,when for the past 20 years have done nothing but gave tax breaks to their wall street constituents,and on top of that encouraged small business men & women who are successful to move their companies over sea if they wish to get financial support.As it stands today,The obstacle is not the President,but the politicians,both republicans,and democrats..........The republicans were in charge when the boble burst with the mortgage industry.Today these same people are screaming,and pointing finger at the President, when all along it was them using, and doing everything in their wicked power to block the President.Unfortunately,the only mistake the president has made to the republican party is giving them the benefit of doubt.COMPROMISE is the key word here,that the President failed to acknowledged,it was just another way of discrediting him.....I hope,he can make a difference between now & than.....
There is a stampede of white supremacists running for public office.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/07/04/white-supremacists-running-for-political-office-in-2012-in-growing-numbers.html
China sells their first car in the US this year.
http://knowledgenetwork.thunderbird.edu/research/2008/07/08/china-awakens-as-fierce-competitor-in-mexico/
These are going to come from Mexican factories and not from US workers.
Reverse migration from the US back to Mexico is destroying the US economy and improving the Mexican economy.
Why?
It turns out that the consumer demand from undocumented workers is also deported with those undocumented workers. Illegal immigrants can't spend $150 billion every year in the United States if they are somewhere else.
http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/special-reports/raising-floor-american-workers
Two of the excuses used to support deportation are crime and national security. There are many stories about how undocumented workers are considered to be a detriment to employment.
Those stories are demonstrably false.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/business/yourmoney/16view.html
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/immigration-and-emigration/index.html
It turns out that crime is actually lower among undocumented workers.
http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/immigrants-underrepresented-californias-crime-rates-5604
It also turns out deportations reduces consumer demand and increases unemployment.
White supremacists began kicking out "illegal immigrants" with the Great Wall of Tiajuana to make the US "more secure" after 2001.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15424055/ns/us_news-security/t/bush-signs-bill-us-mexico-border-fence/#.TnLMC679UQJ
http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2006/11/30/the-great-wall-of-tijuana/
And illegal aliens declined for the first time in half a century because of China?
It turns out the US economy actually began to collapse because of reverse immigration when China began investing large sums to build factories in Mexico.
About 1.3 million undocumented workers have left the country since 2007 because Chinese companies have invested $billions$ in Mexican factories intended to take advantage of NAFTA.
Jobs for African Americans in Southern California declined instead of increasing as a significant fraction of the undocumented worker population left. About 0.4 million were deported. About 0.9 million left because the Mexican economy has improved.
http://blog.finetik.com/2009/10/01/china-chooses-mexico-as-its-main-foreign-investment-destination/
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/09mexicoam/2009-06/05/content_8253861.htm
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32701.pdf
The consumer demand cash-flow created by those missing 1.3 million undocumented workers used to employ about 800,000 US citizens, and their departure has left about 500,000 dwellings unoccupied across the US.
The decline in housing demand in California has left tens of thousands of dwellings permanently vacant after undocumented workers began stampeding back to Mexico seeking jobs in a less hostile environment. All of those undocumented workers payed mortgages or rent, which stopped being paid starting in 2007.
This collapsed the construction industry, real estate industry, banking industry, and the associated job markets beginning in California -- which then rippled across the country.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104719.html
Southern California was one of the hardest-hit areas for unemployment because 1 in 3 Native Americans living in Californians have been legally redefined as "illegal immigrants" in direct violation of the Treaty of Guadalupe.
Reduced consumer demand due to reverse immigration to Mexico devastated the Los Angeles area, and this has had the most impact on inner-city communities.
http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/guadalu7.htm
There is a total about 12 million "illegal immigrants" in the United States as of 2011.
* About 4% of the US population
* Annual contribution to GNP is about $150 billion
* Dwelling occupancy approximately 4 million (about 3% of total)
* Annual cost to government programs $10 billion
http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/special-reports/raising-floor-american-workers
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/04/cost-of-illegal-immigrants/
Consumer demand created by the cash-flow associated with undocumented workers is directly responsible for the employment of about 8 million US citizens.
It appears that the evidence indicates that deportation creates unemployment, and not the other way around.
The same thing has happened before. More than once.
The information about the past still exists, but it is much like a fading echo because no books or research has been published on the topic, so most of the information does not come from academia.
Work visas were readily available and cost about $28 before 1929.
White supremacists managed to achieve control of congress, the presidency, and supreme court in the early 1920s when the KKK was at its peak. White supremacy is often associated with conservative christians because the Baptist Church was used for recruitment, and this practice still continues.
http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/aryan_nations.asp?xpicked=3&item=an
One of the more lasting achievements of white supremacists was to pass the Quota Act of 1924, which was used to reclassify Native Americans as non-citizens and deport 500,000 or more to Mexico.
Birth certificates were not issued to Native Americans living in the US at the time.
Outcomes?
Mein Kampf was published about a year later, and this made the same idea popular in Germany. The concept pioneered by the Quota Act of 1924 came to be known as "ethnic cleansing" in places like Germany, Yugoslavia, and Africa. The term used inside the United States is "manifest destiny".
The 500,000 US citizens that were deported to Mexico during repatriation owned property or paid rent, which stopped being paid when they were "made illegal" and forced out of the country. That triggered the Great Depression by defaulting real estate loans on hundreds of thousands of dwellings that became unoccupied as a result.
Accelerated foreclosure rates caused by deportation collapsed the banking system in 1929 when migrant worker quotas were reduced after the military and law enforcement got involved. The banking and stock market collapse began a full 2 years before the rain failed. Depression era abandoned buildings were still visible across most of Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and Southern California until about 1980s when the wood finally turned to powder.
This was at least the third ethnic cleansing event in the United States. Prior EC events involved the Oklahoma territory and Chinese Exclusion Act, both of which correspond with economic collapse.
All of the dwellings formerly occupied by the 1930s deportees were left vacant with no hope of being sold. This was known among realtors and bankers, and not otherwise published. The same thing happened in Germany at the same time.
http://www.sc3000.com/knowledge/showarticle.cfm?id=0405
http://www.colorado.com/Articles.aspx?aid=42076
http://www.houstonculture.org/hispanic/conquest5.html
This simultaneously collapsed the banking systems of both Germany and the US as both populations declined at the same time.
Thus was born the need for a bank bailout under FDR, who also put an end Mexican Repatriation. Germans chose to improve their economy using war to capture more people.
The period from 1930 to 1970 has been called the "Mexican Miracle" because of rapid economic growth that occurred as a direct result of forced migration out of the US and into Mexico.
Many Germans also immigrated to Mexico during the same period. Evidence? Spanish language polka music is very popular in Mexico. Flamenco comes from Spain and not polka music.
https://www.msu.edu/course/hst/384/MIRACLE.htm
Newspapers, like those run by William Randolph Hearst, popularized the idea that Great Depression was actually caused by incompetent farmers. This was an attempt to shift the blame away from the racist rants in popular newspapers, but farmers had very little to do with banking failures in 1929. There were bumper crops in 1930 and 1931 so the dust bowl did not cause the Great Depression.
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer/ww1/byrne.html
http://www.helium.com/items/791036-causes-of-the-dust-bowl
Many Native American US citizens that were "repatriated" to Mexico returned to the US during WW II, which is associated with the Baby Boom. Immigration resumed in the 1970s as a long-term economic depression began in Mexico, and the US economy boomed from 1970 until 2007 while the immigrant population rose in the US.
The "roaring 20s" was a period of great economic prosperity in the United States that corresponds with mass immigration into the US from Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
How would you vote if you found out that everything you learned in school is wrong?
What would you do if you found out that white supremacists are responsible for collapsing the economy?
What would you do if you discovered white supremacy is being taught in every school in the United States?
And how many times does this happen before voters realize what is going on?
I hope this finds everyone well.
What is sad, is that non of the US companies pay a living wage!
No doubt every person in America would trade their current lives, to live and work in the utopia we all know as China. I know I could find my dream job there.
What I get from this data is that Socialistic country have much more centralised control over the masses.
If that is your thing, more power to ya.
What is sad is you believe this crap.
The monkey game is on! Economists say that 7 out of the top 10 biggest employers worldwide are governments! The other 3 are private sector businesses. So, the see/do/hear/smell/feel nothing American Republican Party is screaming that the only way to increase job production in the U.S. is through the private sector. It would be good if they could monkey see monkey do. However, they only just monkey feel, monkey smell because the monkey on their backs that they signed and pledged to won't let them monkey hear what the professional economists are monkeying about! QUICO!
My question is: Which system turns the better profit. Because our military consumes and without the private sector who would pay for it?
What are you talking about? Are you really that ignorant of how the world works. Which system turns a better profit? You question is ridiculious. Government does not turn a profit. It only takes from those that do.
Lack of Jobs is at the heart of the condition of the economy. Lack of Jobs is created by (1) years of companies moving Jobs overseas and (2) lack of demand for products.
Demand is created by cash in the pockets of America. Cash in the pocket is created by having a Job.
What could have started this spiral? Being rewarded for moving out of America and producing cheap and potentially lethal products is no way to reduce unemployment in our country. Tax breaks for offshore investments is no way to increase revenue in our country.
Revenue is created by people with Jobs purchasing American products and paying taxes to America.
So -- Stop the benefits for creating offshore Jobs. Bring companies back home. This will create American Jobs. People with Jobs purchasing American products will create demand. This will create more Jobs. This will create more tax revenue. And all these people with Jobs will no longer require unemployment or other government assistance. This will automatically create a cut in government spending.
Seems simple to me. But I don't owe my Job to someone pulling my strings. Especially since I no longer have a Job.
Carol,
You are right in accessing that demand for product helps create jobs but really what creates jobs is opportunity. Sometimes demand is created by developing an idea that takes off like Microsoft or Federal Express. The opportunity is created by encouraging people to risk their captial in business ventures. In order to do this, those people must be handsomely rewarded because as they grow their business they hire more and more people. Cutting regulations and taxes creates jobs. I never got a job from a poor person in my life.
Does the public sector really put many people to work? Plenty of Republicans like to say the answer is no, and they say the private sector is the only place people get put to work.
Um, let's see here, the private companies and individuals in the private sector are the only ones who really put people to work. You see the Governemnt employee might pay taxes but those taxes were first wroght by the private sector. They are first collected from the private sector and used to pay public employess so even when the public employee contributes taxes those taxes are coming from the money that was first originated in the private sectore. Period. Fact. Case Closed. Or as Ronald Reagan put it back in 1978,
"There are 73 million of us working and earning by means of private enterprise to support ourselves and our dependents. We support, in addition, 81 million other Americans totally dependent on tax dollars for their year-round living. Now it's true that 15 million of those are public employees and they also pay taxes, but their taxes are simply a return to government of dollars that first had to be taken from the 73 million. I say this to emphasize that the people working and earning in private business and industry are the only resource that government has."
Now that was back in 1978 so you can imagine how much more the private employees are paying for the public ones? Nowadays, the public employee who is paid directly by the person making 40K a year with no retirement and a $600 month contribution to pay for their healthcare is paying the public employee's salary who is making more money, doing less work, less accountability, and has cush retirement, medical and life benefits. And don't think for a momennt that the person making $25,000 a year is not paying for these cush benefits for the government employee. They are. They are paying for it in less job opportuniteis, more taxes on gas, massively higher energy costs, property taxes and ultimately when the private sector can no longer support this behemouth government, they will pay when their freedom is taken and they ulitmately work for the State. That is where we are heading people.