Show vt No u how the u of r matter you measure size it comes out and One measurement is government spending on the federal level has doubled in only six Another is the impact of that spending on the Federal spending L accounts for 22 per cent of the nation's total state and local nAn pushes this up to nearly ri 40 m per Yet measurement is In one out of 10 Americans worked for government at all one in six works for with state and local payrolls bal- faster than federal But that only tells part of the While around million people are actually em- by the federal million others have their salaries paid by Uncle Sam through involvement in govern- j r Ef r fr at another Carry it a step If you add in the 50 million people who are supported by Social government pensions and the you have a substantial proportion of the U.S. population whose in whole or comes from And that means tremendous power for the public sector sector-at at the the expense ot of the the private sector all this is getting some attention in high President Carter has warned about big So has to 20 per ay next few sr These sentiments should be translated The big- ger government the less freedom of action there is for the citi It's time-past time-to trim government |