108,000 bucks to create a job in washington, in government. $69,000 for the exact same apples to apples job and the difference, yeah, about 7,000 comes from the salary difference. you get paid 7,000 bucks more being a federal worker. but the real difference comes in all the benefits, the health care, everything else they put in. the difference around 40,000 for benefits package for a government worker and about 9,000 in the private sector. we lost 4 million jobs since obama has been elected. in that same period of time, almost every single sector lost jobs except for one. which one? wait for it. federal jobs. not state and local jobs. that s not a hard one to figure out. mark, do you have any problem with that? no, not at all. the federal government is often the stimulus of the economy. go back to the 1930s. you ll see how the new deal worked. it s by government aid for
the taxpayers are richard is the cohost of happy hour and already drinking in preparation for the show. we got him midway imbibing. you know we re not allowed to drink until 6:01. what are you noticing? government, government, government. the numbers we saw now yes, 55,000 jobs created. where? federal government jobs since obama was elected. 4 million private sector jobs, gone. check out that graphic. 108,000 bucks per federal worker, private sector 69. the difference isn t how much you pay the worker, it s did $7,000 difference between what you pay. neil: which is significant. it s significant but the money comes when you add in benefits, health benefits, everything, that s $40,000 per