[lbo-talk] Britain's failed experiment

[Andy]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Dec 9, 2011, at 9:42 AM, James Heartfield wrote:
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>> Oh, and since SA points to a reduction in public servants, about one in five,  working Britons are public servants, six million altogether, which I am guessing is probably a bigger share than in the US.
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> Gov employment is about 17% of the total in the U.S. - 2% federal (civilian, i.e. not including military), 4% state, 11% local. The federal share, by the way, is less than half what it was in the 1950s. The state/local share has barely changed in the last 30 years.

Not counting contractors, many of whom are hard to distiguish in their
day-to-day work from the federal payroll.  This probably accounts for
much of the shift from the 50's.

-- 
Andy