LoneLaugher
Diamond Member
This is unbelievable. Harry Reid--Democrat senate majority leader trying to push Obama's new job's bill through the senate makes this comment.
actually, last month and the month before, the number of private sector jobs created were canceled out by the number of government jobs terminated.
reality, it's quite a concept.
yes quite a concept....
But James Hohman, assistant director for fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, disagrees. He said private-sector jobs have been hit harder than public-sector jobs since the recession started in December 2007.
The private sector has lost 6.3 million jobs, a 5.4 percent drop, since December 2007, while the public sector has only lost 1.8 percent, or 392,000 jobs, in that same time, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The public sector had 22.3 million jobs in December 2007 and dropped to 21.2 million in September 2011. The private sector had 115.6 million jobs in December 2007 and it dropped to 109.3 million as of September 2011.
Hohman said the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 protected many government jobs.
The private sector is still way down and they should not be asked to support government jobs that have been protected from a recession, Hohman said.
more at-
Harry Reid Misreads Facts on Public/Private Job Losses [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
Oh look. What a shock! The nutter takes it back to 2007! Who could have guessed?