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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (76601)	9/3/2006 12:26:54 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

<<It shows that we are spending more money than ever on anti-poverty programs and we haven't done anything to reduce poverty>> Government is Huge and Expensive: "New data was released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis on federal employee wages and benefits. The data for 2005 shows that compensation for the average federal civilian worker ($106,579) is now exactly double the average compensation in the U.S. private sector ($53,289)." cato-at-liberty.org Bureaucracy is the permanent civil occupation force.