Title: PolitiFact | Warner says US government is "largest enterprise in the world"
Headings: "The largest enterprise in the world is the federal government of the United States of America"
"The largest enterprise in the world is the federal government of the United States of America"
Warner says US government is "largest enterprise in the world"
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Says Joe Biden is “withholding $150 million in aid from Ukraine” to “pressure Ukraine to drop all criminal investigations into him and his son, Hunter.”
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Content: Two years ago, Liu Xirong, a member of the National People’s Congress in China, cited what he said were official figures showing his nation’s bureaucracy had grown from 6 million public servants in 2006 to 10 million in 2010, according to an article in News China. In response, the State Administration of Civil Service said China’s number of public servants stood at 6.89 million in 2010. Featured Fact-check
George Papadopoulos
stated on April 12, 2021 in a Facebook post
Says Joe Biden is “withholding $150 million in aid from Ukraine” to “pressure Ukraine to drop all criminal investigations into him and his son, Hunter.” These figures did not include state-owned enterprises and organizations, which would grow the number to more than 30 million, News China reported. Barry Bosworth, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who studies China’s economy, said it’s reasonable to include the employees of state-run corporations in the count. But even if you don’t, logic says China’s rolls of government workers would be longer than the United States’ roster of 4.3 million employees. "In the U.S., labor is expensive and we have substituted technology as shown by the large decline in clerical workers," he said. " In China, technology is expensive and workers are cheap. I do not know of any fully comparable data. I would be quite confident that on most comparisons, China's workforce would be larger, if for no other reason than the size of its army and security forces."