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To: goldworldnet who wrote (5847)	7/29/2011 11:28:49 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

strangemaps.files.wordpress.com This map details the percentage of state territory owned by the federal government. The top 10 list of states with the highest percentage of federally owned land looks like this: Nevada 84.5% Alaska 69.1% Utah 57.4% Oregon 53.1% Idaho 50.2% Arizona 48.1% California 45.3% Wyoming 42.3% New Mexico 41.8% Colorado 36.6% bigthink.com

To: goldworldnet who wrote (5847)	7/30/2011 9:40:04 AM
From: Lane3	2 Recommendations Respond to of 7936

I found that interesting. I had no clue that one out of four or five workers in a state could work for the government, outside of the DC area, that is. This info would have been more useful had state and local workers been differentiated from federal workers. I checked on the state tax burden in the various states and added it to each entry. I assume that for those states with a lower tax burden the workers are mostly federal, either that or state salary levels are very low. #10 Nebraska - Gov. Dave Heineman Public employees: 128,025 - % of all employees: 16.0 32nd #9 New York - Gov. David Patterson Public employees: 1,296,806 - % of all employees: 16.3 9th #8 Idaho - Gov. Butch Otter Public employees: 96,225 - % of all employees: 16.4 30th #7 Kansas - Gov. Mark Parkinson Public employees: 201,660 - % of all employees: 16.5 24th #6 West Virginia - Gov. Joe Manchin III Public employees: 114,169 - % of all employees: 16.7 20th #5 North Dakota - Gov. John Hoeven Public employees: 49,454 - % of all employees: 16.8 12th #4 Mississippi - Gov. Haley Barbour Public employees: 191,831 - % of all employees: 18.9 36th #3 New Mexico - Gov. Bill Richardson Public employees: 148,882 - % of all employees: 19.9 16th #2 Alaska - Gov. Sean Parnell Public employees: 60,067 - % of all employees: 20.8 1st #1 Wyoming - Gov. David Freudenthal Public employees: 52,433 - % of all employees: 22.0 4th Then I looked around and found an entirely different set of numbers here: gallup.com Lost interest before trying to explain the differences.