Steve Ballmer Dataminer website: USAFacts.org

[laserhaas]

Look out folks, former Microsoft biggie and owner of the Clippers, Steve Ballmer, is doing an Aaron Scwartz type deal with a Goverment "Facts Check" dataminer website - titled USAFacts.org.

Link to tweet

How many Drivers Licenses are there? (214 million +)

Total government revenue (for 2014) $5.2 Trillion.

Number of Government employees - 24 million +

In the age of faux news and POTUS cover ups (of taxes and more), with Aaron Scwartz the target of big gov "Don't You Dare", this is a surprising enterprise.

Wonder how long it will last?

Or how long before Mr. Ballmer becomes an "interest"?

just sayin........

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[Leith]

1. That Looks Like an Interesting Website

I just bookmarked it.

[laserhaas]

2. It blows my mind, they even tried; and stats are a wowzer

[matt819]

3. Can you say "bullshit-ish"

Number of Government employees

Federal government? If federal, executive, legislative, judiciary, and military? Federal and state government? If state governments included, same questions apply - executive, legislative, judiciary?

Because details matter. Go here: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-documentation/federal-employment-reports/historical-tables/executive-branch-civilian-employment-since-1940/

Here's the data from 2014 (in thousands):

FY 2014
Total Executive Branch 2,079,000
DoD 723,000
Total Civilian 1,356,000
Agriculture 94,000
HHS, Education, SocSec 141,000
DHS 186,000
Interior 70,000
Justice 114,000
Transportation 55,000
Treasury 112,000
Veterans 344,000
Other 244,000

So, remember folks. Details matter.