Michael Lew has a very nice profile<http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/10/michael-lewis-profile-barack-obama>of Obama in Vanity Fair.
*-- Russ Abbott* *_____________________________________________* *** Professor, Computer Science* * California State University, Los Angeles* * My paper on how the Fed can fix the economy: ssrn.com/abstract=1977688* * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 Google+: plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ * vita: *sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ CS Wiki <http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/> and the courses I teach *_____________________________________________* On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > So, what's a big government? Are there any other national statistics for >> comparison? > > > The real question is: Why in hell does no one know just how good a job > Obama is doing? He's mute! Why? > > The best speech at the DNC was Clinton, and then Michelle! Why is Obama > so unwilling to defend what good he has done? > > Makes me not want to vote for him. Sigh! > > -- Owen > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This graph shows the government employees in the US, all levels of >> government, divided by the population of the US. >> >> http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/fredgraph.png?graph_id=87170 >> >> Color me surprised. The government/capita has been 0.0725+/-0.0025 since >> 1982. Variation in the last digit, 0.0001, represents ~31500 employees in >> our current population of ~315 million, so there's room for a lot of wiggle >> there. But it looks like a resource limited growth curve that met its >> limit 30 years ago and has danced around the limit since then. >> >> This graph shows the federal government employees in the US divided by >> the population of the US. >> >> http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/fredgraph.png?graph_id=87182 >> >> The federal/capita fell from 0.016 to 0.009 over these 60 years, most >> steeply under the Clinton administration. The only federal/capita >> increases in the last 60 years were during Johnson's "Great Society" and >> Reagan's administration. The most recent federal contraction started under >> Bush1 in 1988 and has brought us from 0.013 to 0.009 federal >> employees/capita. Obama's stimulus started to reverse the trend, but he's >> now running the leanest federal/capita in the last 60 years. >> >> The rough constancy overall since 1988 is a crowd sourced result >> combining decisions made by 50 state and ~87000 local governments while the >> federal government shrank. >> >> So, what's a big government? Are there any other national statistics for >> comparison? >> >> -- rec -- >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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