Saw this at Hot Air:

This comes from Business Insider, and it provides a natural follow-up to my post from last week as to why public-sector workers are more optimistic than private-sector employees. For the first time, the US has more government workers than goods-producing workers.

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But there’s more to this than just the current economic system. That line stretched back to 1939 … It has been an inexorable inflation of government, a symptom of the encroaching bureaucracy and capital destruction that has plagued the US since the New Deal.

Read the rest of Ed Morrissey’s thoughts at the Hot Air collumn.

The growth of government has only been slowed at best. Even then it was only a very slight change. It hass otherwise been on a steady march to the bloated and powerful Federal State that we have today , and the State intends to continue it growth.

Everything has become hopelessly dependent on the Federal State, from state governments, to my own city government here in Grand Rapids, to foreign countries, to private businesses.

The only way to stop it is to implement a New Great Experiment. Like the founding fathers before us, we it’s necessary to reject tyranny. And like the founding fathers before us, we have the means at our disposal to govern ourselves: the Market.

Like the first Great Experiment in government, the New Great Experiment, Agorism, is the next natural evolution of self-government.