Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Why is the federal government hiring while the rest of corporate america is having layoffs?

Revenues are down for not only corporations, but also the federal, state, and local governments. So why is the federal government adding so many jobs? Don't you think they would be contracting due to the lower amount of revenue they are receiving?


Every time the government develops some new program (bailouts for example), new employees have to be hired to do the overseeing and accounting and paper shuffling for those programs....i.e. support staff. For some reason, the government seems to think that their workers can only do one thing at a time Odd when you consider that business people combine jobs often to save money

It is a quandary. The Government does not create wealth. Only the private sector can do that. What the Government creates is "work" not jobs. A job is self-sustaining. Work is only something to do. That is a critical difference. If you give private business incentives to grow and expand, they create jobs and more wealth. If you just pay people to do stuff they only work until the funding runs out.

That is what FDR did, he created work. He did not create jobs. His programs just provided a paycheck to unemployed people for a while. While that may have helped sustain them it did nothing to solve the problem.

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It's just backward of what WILL bring prosperity. Only the government will hire a bunch of people when it is clear that the ability pay for them is dwindling. All the government employees take more out of the system than they put in. They are a net tax drain. Only private enterprises are a net tax gain. It makes little sense to expect more net income from less people without incredible inflation and keeping government pay held at bay.

Because unlike corporate America, if the U.S. government wants more money all they have to do is either borrow it from China or print more. You need to remember, they own the mint and that is precisely what they are doing.

But you make a good point. With this last so called 'stimulus' package, all the government succeeded in doing was to approve the hiring of about 10 million new government employees since the only jobs that the government 'creates' are either government jobs or government related jobs which are, essentially, government jobs. So, the American public, at least those of us with jobs, is being saddled with the bill to pay for about 10 million new government workers. Oh yea. Just what we needed, bigger government. And the kicker is, now we'll have to sustain them.

Contractors charge the government more. But then, you have to factor in the cost of insurance and 401k matches by the government. Usually, contractors charge the feds twice the amount they pay the actual employee - for profit and for paying the insurance costs and other benefits of the employee.

Hard to say

Bob you are right at this moment in time they have a unlimited resource the tax payer they create all kinds of laws inspections oversight that the private sector has to meet this in turn creates jobs for the government and if they are not hiring they are getting pay increases also continue to get the best health care and retirement in some cases they have figured out how to double dip on retirement in the private sector you have to PRODUCE something in order to survive its like on animal planet the shark is the private sector always trying to find new territory food etc the goverment is those little grouer fish hanging off the shark doing no work just lazily swimming along picking up freebees and afree ride This will only stop when we get involved and stop voting these same thieves in year after year like Kennedy, Pelosi, Reed, good question I am heated now

Havben't you heard , they are contracting , but only to unionized companies so your union dues will make up for the raise they give you and moreso . However it will allow you to dine at the ObmaPork Barrell .

The money for this "Economic Stimulus" is coming from the sale of US Bonds, which will come due in thirty years. Who has bought the majority of US Bonds?

China and Russia. (Time to learn Chinese and Russian.)

If the US is hiring now, it is only a continuation of the growth of the government that has been going on for quite some time. While there is no freeze yet, there will be soon. And businesses of all sizes are shedding jobs, not adding. (Thanks Obama!)

This is only a precursor of very difficult times.

they need voters for the 2010 elections, so if they give jobs to at least 4 million, that 4 million will roughly translate for 4 million votes.

i have not seen it, in North Carolina there are hiring freezes for the city and state governments maybe the federal government still needs people

The more people who depend on the govt., the better, according to democrats. This is socialism in the making.

Your kidding right?! How many jobs are they adding and where are they? Please back up your question with a source.

votes votes votes votes votes votes votes votes votes votes!!!

Getting as many people as possible on their teat, and there they'll stay.

Because the government is coming into a lot of money. Ours!

I am a federal employee and I waste my working day on YA asking moron questions on the tax payers dime.

Scott White

They are the ones with all the money.

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