{"id":40,"date":"2010-09-11T05:46:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T05:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkknit.org\/?p=40"},"modified":"2010-09-12T07:30:24","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T07:30:24","slug":"government-is-not-getting-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Government is not getting bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all those who think that government under Obama is growing out of control there is this from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.econbrowser.com\/archives\/2010\/09\/the_everexpandi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Menzie Chinn.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Govt-Employment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43\" title=\"Govt Employment\" src=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Govt-Employment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a>Chinn adds a breakdown of federal, state, and local employment:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62\" style=\"width: 492px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/anti_leviathn2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62\" title=\"Figure 3: Federal (blue), state (red), local ex.-educ. (green) and local-education (purple) employment, seasonally adjusted, in thousands (FRED II series PAYEMS), all series seasonally adjusted. Source: BLS CES data via John Eckstein, and FRED II, and author's calculations.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/anti_leviathn2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/anti_leviathn2.gif 482w, http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/anti_leviathn2-300x182.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 3: Federal (blue), state (red), local ex.-educ. (green) and local-education (purple) employment, seasonally adjusted, in thousands (FRED II series PAYEMS), all series seasonally adjusted. Source: BLS CES data via John Eckstein, and FRED II, and author&#39;s calculations.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Note the census ticks every 10 years.\u00c2\u00a0 Also note that the federal government has not grown significantly since the 70s.\u00c2\u00a0 So much for an out-of-control, ballooning federal government.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/DOCUME%7E1\/STEVEN%7E1\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-3.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all those who think that government under Obama is growing out of control there is this from Menzie Chinn. Chinn adds a breakdown of federal, state, and local employment: Note the census ticks every 10 years.\u00c2\u00a0 Also note that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=40\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}