Notes On Government Employment - NYTimes.com

Notes On Government Employment - NYTimes.com:

...most government workers are at the local level, and most of the rest are state workers; the federal government is a small piece of the total. And if you look at what they do, a lot of them are teachers; many of the rest are firefighters, police, and other occupations we sort of like.

Third, why has government employment grown over time? Because, um, we have a growing population. Here’s government employment as a share of the population:

Yes, government got bigger under those socialists Dwight Eisenhower, LBJ, and Nixon. Since then, however, there has been no trend relative to population.

And bear in mind, again, that the representative government employee isn’t a bureaucrat trampling on your liberty; he or she is a schoolteacher.