24 Million US Government Employees? Steve Ballmer's new website: USAFacts

[guacamole]

Here's the article describing it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/b...pgtype=article

Here's a link to the website:

http://usafacts.org/

Try to be in bed by 11.

fwiw,
guacamole

ps:

[Darth Executor]

who thinks of a soldier or teacher as a government bureaucrat?

[Sparko]

more info can't be bad. As long as it is accurate.

[One Bad Pig]

"nonpartisan"

[rogue06]

"nonpartisan"

New York Times wrote:
^[1]1. They still describe themselves as

"a nonpartisan, 501(c)3 tax exempt organization dedicated to building political power for young people. Rock the Vote does not support or endorse candidates, nor do we advocate for one political party over another."

although Wikipedia is far more accurate (and honest) when they describe them as "a non-profit organization, progressive-aligned group in the United States."

[Sparko]

so how is this partisan?

[Meh Gerbil]

None of them work at the DMV.
I checked.

[Mountain Man]

"The database is perhaps the first nonpartisan effort..."

Yeah, right. Pretty sure Ballmer is a quintessential limousine liberal.

[guacamole]

I feel like it's hard for statistics to be "partisan" without offering interpretation. The site only raw numbers, as in "total US government spending:" $5,385,587,977,000.

fwiw,
guacamole

[Meh Gerbil]

I feel like it's hard for statistics to be "partisan" without offering interpretation. The site only raw numbers, as in "total US government spending:" $5,385,587,977,000.

fwiw,
guacamole

I had a professor who used to say, "Figures don't lie but liars figure."

[One Bad Pig]

so how is this partisan?

For starters, equating peoples' claim of bloat with teachers/policemen, et al. seems highly disingenuous.

[Sparko]

For starters, equating peoples' claim of bloat with teachers/policemen, et al. seems highly disingenuous.

But if the data is accurate, either side can make any comparisons they want. How you present the data is what would be partisan. But the database would not be (unless it is falsified) or they make it so that certain data is harder to find than other data.

[Mountain Man]

But if the data is accurate, either side can make any comparisons they want. How you present the data is what would be partisan. But the database would not be (unless it is falsified) or they make it so that certain data is harder to find than other data.

Bingo. I've learned you have to be wary when a liberal claims he's giving you the facts.

[guacamole]

For starters, equating peoples' claim of bloat with teachers/policemen, et al. seems highly disingenuous.

It's in the article, not in the database section.

fwiw,
guacamole

[guacamole]

But if the data is accurate, either side can make any comparisons they want. How you present the data is what would be partisan. But the database would not be (unless it is falsified) or they make it so that certain data is harder to find than other data.

True. So I suppose the point here is to figure out a way to cross check enough of the stuff to see if it is correct. I have no idea how to determine if someone is making certain data harder to find than other data.

fwiw,
guacamole