Posted: November 7, 2016 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Economics, Health and Social Issues, Politics | Tags: Administrative State, All-America, Barack Obama, Carfentanil, CNBC, Government workers, Hillary Clinton, Manufacturing, President of the United States, Regulatory State, Socialism, Statism, United States, Welfare state |

(CNSNews.com) – Terence P. Jeffrey reports: The United States lost 9,000 manufacturing jobs in October while gaining 19,000 jobs in government, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Government employment grew from 22,216,000 in September to 22,235,000 in October, according to BLS, while manufacturing jobs dropped from 12,267,000 to 12,258,000.

The 22,235,000 employed by government in the United States now outnumber the 12,258,000 employed in manufacturing by 9,977,000.
Over the past year—from October 2015 to October 2016—manufacturing employment fell by 53,000, declining from 12,311,000 to 12,258,000. During the same period, government employment climbed 208,000, rising from 22,027,000 to 22,235,000.

The BLS has published seasonally-adjusted month-by-month employment data for both government and manufacturing going back to January 1939. According to this data, manufacturing employees in the United States of America outnumbered government employees every month for more than half a century.
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Then, in August 1989, government employees slipped ahead of manufacturing employees for the first time—taking a slim lead of 17,989,000 to 17,964,000.

Since then, government has pulled dramatically ahead of manufacturing as an employer in the United States. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: September 4, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Think Tank, U.S. News | Tags: FBI, Minor, Police, Rise of the Warrior Cop, State school, Statism |

Children Being Arrested for Trivial Things
#1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume.
#2 A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was recently arrested by police for burping in class.
[Also see – Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces]
#3 Another student down in Albuquerque was forced to strip down to his underwear while five adults watched because he had $200 in his pocket. The student was never formally charged with doing anything wrong.
#4 A security guard at one school in California broke the arm of a 16-year-old girl because she left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning up some cake that she had spilled.
#5 One teenage couple down in Houston poured milk on each other during a squabble while they were breaking up. Instead of being sent to see the principal, they were arrested and sent to court.
#6 In early 2010, a 12-year-old girl at a school in Forest Hills, New York was arrested by police and marched out of her school in handcuffs just because she doodled on her desk. “I love my friends Abby and Faith” was what she reportedly scribbled on her desk. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: October 28, 2013 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Health and Social Issues, History, Humor | Tags: Cal Thomas, Humor, Jesus, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Politics, Somalia, Statism |

Dan Mitchell writes: Most of my political humor is designed to mock statists. That’s true whether I’m sharing cartoons, videos, jokes, or one-liners…