wonder what that number is now??
According to the Office of Personnel Management, as of December 2011 [update], there were approximately 2.79 million civil servants employed by the U.S. government.
edit,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,This is 2015 wow...............
21,995,000 to 12,329,000: Government Employees Outnumber Manufacturing Employees 1.8 to 1
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/21955000-12329000-government-employees-outnumber-manufacturing
By Terence P. Jeffrey | September 8, 2015 | 11:14 AM EDT

Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.