Our Stimulus dollars are hard at work… That is if you work for the government

President Obama’s call last year for “shared sacrifice” doesn’t extend to federal employees, at least based on the details of his administration’s 2010 budget released this week.

At a time when the official unemployment rate is nearing double digits, and 6.35 million people are receiving unemployment benefits, the U.S. government is on a hiring binge.

Executive branch employment — 1.98 million in 2009, excluding the Postal Service and the Defense Department — is set to increase by 15.6 percent for the 2010 fiscal year. Most of that is thanks to the Census Bureau hiring 102,000 temporary workers, but not counting them still yields a net increase of 2 percent in one year.

There’s little belt-tightening in evidence in Washington, D.C.: Counting benefits, the average pay per federal worker will leap from $72,800 in 2008 to $75,419 next year.

Meanwhile, according to Forbes’ layoff tracker, there have been 558,087 layoffs since November 2008 at large public companies; even local school districts aren’t immune. That’s just a sliver of the total unemployed, which government data estimate to be 8.6 percent of the workforce, or an alternate method of reckoning that counts discouraged workers puts at 20 percent.

 
Yes, when Mr. Obama promised he would create or save 3.5 million jobs, he was certainly promising he would be expanding the amount of people relying on the government. Jobs, jobs, jobs…. well, if we look at the nationwide unemployment rate, I guess we could only conclude that the stimulus isn’t working. We all already knew that it would not work, and we were all sure of the vast expansion of government. While we were concerned with the phrase of “create or save”, the almighty administration was busy creating a plethora of bureaucracies to save the world. It is a sad situation when there are many skilled workers across the nation who are waiting on a decent paying job, while these elitist’s claim their part of the american dream.

Maybe we should all start looking for work at the DMV or the Post Office

God Help us all!!!