I am rarely shocked anymore by stats when it comes to our Federal Government. The other day a friend sent me this video. I knew that government was getting big. However, I was shocked by the enormity of Government and what that really means.

Consider these stats:

2 years ago the Department of Transportation had 1 person making over $ 170,000 and now 1,690 are making over 170,000.

2 years ago the Department of Defense had 1,868 employees making over 150,000 and now there are 10,100 employees making over $150,000.

In 2009, the average salary for someone working in the private sector was $ 61,051. At that same time, the average salary for a government worker was $ 123,049.

Here is the disturbing statistic – There are 21,300,000 people working for the government according to this video. I found a Wall Street Journal article that states the number is actually over 22.5 million workers.

That represents 16% of those who vote. Now take into account those 16% who depend on the government for employment and higher than average pay have significant others that are effected by that pay and employment. They are probably going to vote to keep current administration in office. If you doubled that 16%, you would then have 32%. Do you think that any of these government workers are going to vote for a President who is going to cut spending? What if that number gets to 50%?

Government is getting bigger for a reason. It is for reasons such as this one (and many others) that lead me to believe that Mr. Obama has a very good chance of getting re-elected. As a result, the spending will get larger and larger eventually exploding the debt bomb inAmerica. Considering that we are borrowing 47 cents for every dollar we spend, it makes you wonder how long it will take?