550,000 local government jobs are gone, like GOP advocates, since the Great Recession started. For August, overall government employment declined 17,000 even though the State of Minnesota went back to work.
Employment Situation Summary
In a GOP/Tea Party-free, compromise environment, then even the striking Verizon employees would have more likely been employed, the 17,000 government job losses might more easily have been gains instead.
And as for the 550,000 government jobs taking spending out of the stores: Then there is what GOP has been contending, having said "No!" to everything else!
"Crow, James Crow: Shaken, Not Stirred!"
(GOP take economy into Go-It-Alone without government help, Like Yellow-Hair at Little Big Horn! No Reinforcements needed, unlike in Govenor's Texas!)
Employment Situation Summary
In a GOP/Tea Party-free, compromise environment, then even the striking Verizon employees would have more likely been employed, the 17,000 government job losses might more easily have been gains instead.
And as for the 550,000 government jobs taking spending out of the stores: Then there is what GOP has been contending, having said "No!" to everything else!
"Crow, James Crow: Shaken, Not Stirred!"
(GOP take economy into Go-It-Alone without government help, Like Yellow-Hair at Little Big Horn! No Reinforcements needed, unlike in Govenor's Texas!)