More Americans work for the government than in manufacturing, farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities combined http://www.roguegovernment.com/More_Americans_work_for_the_government_than_in_manufacturing%2C_farming%2C_fishing%2C_forestry%2C_mining_and_utilities_combined/25290/0/8/8/Y/M.html

If you want to understand better why so many states—from New York to Wisconsin to California—are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, consider this depressing statistic: Today in America there are nearly twice as many people working for the government (22.5 million) than in all of manufacturing (11.5 million).