Jobs jobs and less jobs

The jobs report this morning was bad–  400,000 of those workers were government workers for the 2010 census. These are temporary jobs and man, there are a lot of temp census takers.
Let me break this out and we will be able to see why government hiring ain’t what we need. We are after all paying these workers with tax dollars.
400,000 workers till fall to count a nation of 300 million.
OK, we assume no one sends in their form. No one!!!! Did you send in your form? I know that I did.

That means each one of these workers has to count 750 people between now and the fall.
There’s roughly 120 days between now and mid-fall. Which means each census worker is responsible for 6 or so citizens a day.
That’s what we call government efficiency.

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