No, really. For the sake of turning the economy around, why does it matter who signs your paycheck? It's still basic economics: the more people that spend money buying things, the more demand for products. The more demand for products, the more jobs. The more jobs, the more people with money to buy things.

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The problem most people have with government employees is that it's your tax dollars going to pay them to buy things. Them being people like cops, firefighters, EMT personnel, military, school teachers, etc. All middle class kind of folks. But those same people won't bat an eye going into the local Home Depot to buy some widget that's been marked up 300%. That mark up? CEO tax. People don't seem to care that the money they spend on many things has an inherent tax that puts the CEO in the upper 1%, PLUS dividends to other 1%'ers.

I know, I know; you choose to buy that widget, you don't choose to pay the salary of public employees. So it all boils down to an "all about me" control issue. Some just can't stand the thought of someone else telling them they need to pay to support so-and-so.

It's called society for a reason. [/rant]