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NB Меня там ниже справедливо поправили. Не они дали подписку, а адвокаты, что принципиально меняет дело. Так что мир пока спятил не окончательно. Т.е., окончательно, но не полностью (с)
Вспомнился мультфильм далекого детства – «Золотая антилопа». В конце сказки жадный восточный правитель в вариации темы царя Мидаса просит волшебную антилопу остановить потребованный им поток золота, грозящий его убить. По условию договора, если жадный раджа потребует прекратить золотой поток, то все его золото превращается в глиняные черепки. Что и происходит. Как немедленное следствие все слуги раджи от него уходят в поисках другого, богатого Раджи. Так всегда поступают наемники, служащие только за деньги. Легитимность власти в таком случае роли не играет. Все дело в ее способности платить наемникам. Похоже, это как раз случай путинского режима, который вероятно будет держаться пока есть возможность покупать поддержку. Устойчивость такого режима вызывает серьезные сомнения, поскольку от финансовых затруднений в наше время никто не застрахован.
Historical Federal Workforce Tables
Total Government Employment Since 1962 1
(numbers in thousands)
| Year | Executive branch civilians (thousands) | Uniformed military personnel (thousands) | Legislative and judicial branch personnel (thousands) | Total Federal personnel (thousands) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 2,485 | 2,840 | 30 | 5,354 |
| 1963 2 | 2,498 | 2,732 | 30 | 5,260 |
| 1964 2 | 2,470 | 2,719 | 31 | 5,220 |
| 1965 | 2,496 | 2,687 | 32 | 5,215 |
| 1966 | 2,726 | 3,129 | 33 | 5,888 |
| 1967 | 2,968 | 3,413 | 34 | 6,416 |
| 1968 | 3,020 | 3,584 | 35 | 6,639 |
| 1969 3 | 3,040 | 3,499 | 36 | 6,575 |
| 1970 4 | 2,944 | 3,104 | 38 | 6,085 |
| 1971 4 | 2,883 | 2,752 | 40 | 5,675 |
| 1972 | 2,823 | 2,360 | 42 | 5,225 |
| 1973 | 2,781 | 2,289 | 44 | 5,113 |
| 1974 | 2,847 | 2,198 | 46 | 5,091 |
| 1975 | 2,848 | 2,164 | 49 | 5,061 |
| 1976 | 2,833 | 2,119 | 50 | 5,002 |
| 1977 | 2,840 | 2,112 | 53 | 5,005 |
| 1978 | 2,875 | 2,099 | 55 | 5,028 |
| 1979 | 2,823 | 2,063 | 53 | 4,939 |
| 1980 4 | 2,821 | 2,090 | 55 | 4,965 |
| 1981 4 | 2,806 | 2,122 | 54 | 4,982 |
| 1982 | 2,770 | 2,147 | 55 | 4,972 |
| 1983 | 2,820 | 2,163 | 56 | 5,039 |
| 1984 | 2,854 | 2,178 | 56 | 5,088 |
| 1985 | 3,008 | 2,190 | 58 | 5,256 |
| 1986 | 2,966 | 2,206 | 55 | 5,228 |
| 1987 | 3,030 | 2,213 | 58 | 5,301 |
| 1988 | 3,054 | 2,176 | 59 | 5,289 |
| 1989 | 3,064 | 2,168 | 60 | 5,292 |
| 1990 4 | 3,067 | 2,106 | 61 | 5,234 |
| 1991 4 | 3,048 | 2,040 | 64 | 5,152 |
| 1992 | 3,017 | 1,848 | 66 | 4,931 |
| 1993 | 2,947 | 1,744 | 66 | 4,758 |
| 1994 | 2,908 | 1,648 | 63 | 4,620 |
| 1995 | 2,858 | 1,555 | 62 | 4,475 |
| 1996 | 2,786 | 1,507 | 61 | 4,354 |
| 1997 | 2,725 | 1,439 | 62 | 4,226 |
| 1998 | 2,727 | 1,407 | 62 | 4,196 |
| 1999 | 2,687 | 1,386 | 63 | 4,135 |
| 2000 4 | 2,639 | 1,426 | 63 | 4,129 |
| 2001 4 | 2,640 | 1,428 | 64 | 4,132 |
| 2002 | 2,630 | 1,456 | 66 | 4,152 |
| 2003 | 2,666 | 1,478 | 65 | 4,210 |
| 2004 | 2,650 | 1,473 | 64 | 4,187 |
| 2005 | 2,636 | 1,436 | 65 | 4,138 |
| 2006 | 2,637 | 1,432 | 63 | 4,133 |
| 2007 | 2,636 | 1,427 | 63 | 4,127 |
| 2008 | 2,692 | 1,450 | 64 | 4,206 |
| 2009 | 2,774 | 1,591 | 66 | 4,430 |
| 2010 4 | 2,776 | 1,602 | 64 | 4,443 |
Notes:
Data comes from agency 113 monthly submissions and covers total end-of-year civilian employment of full-time permanent, temporary, part-time, and intermittent employees. Executive branch includes the Postal Service, and, beginning in 1970, includes various disadvantaged youth and worker-trainee programs. Uniformed Military Personnel data comes from the Department of Defense.
Excludes 7,411 project employees in 1963 and 406 project employees in 1964 for the public works acceleration program.
On Jan. 1, 1969, 42,000 civilian technicians of the Army and Air Force National Guard converted by law from State to Federal employment status. They are included in the Federal employment figures in this table starting with 1969.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
By Jonathan Haidt
(Pantheon Books, 419 pp., $28.95)
Sometime in the early 1970s I had an illuminating conversation with an expert on Soviet affairs. We ended up discussing Solzhenitsyn, and the expert expounded the view that the writer illustrated the emergence of liberal values in opposition to Soviet totalitarianism. I disagreed. Certainly Solzhenitsyn was anti-totalitarian, but that did not make him any sort of liberal. Even on the basis of those of his writings that had been published in the West up to that time, he looked to me more like a latter-day disciple of Dostoyevsky, opposing the Soviet system out of a belief in the uniqueness of Russia and its deep difference from the West. My interlocutor was adamant: Solzhenitsyn had to be understood as part of a developing liberal culture. Had he not asserted freedom of conscience against the state? And was not this freedom a core value of liberalism?
It was around that time that I stopped listening to Sovietologists...http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-art
