Using government to stimulate the economy.
Reagan increased government employment by 3.1% during his presidency to ensure that main street economies were effectively stimulated by increased wage-based consumption.. Reagan understood that every government worker was also a consumer. This is why he added more government workers than any president in history.
Non Military Government Employees by President
Ronald Reagan
- Started: 2,875,000
- Ended: 3,113,000
Reagan EXPANDED the Federal Workforce by 238,000
Bill Clinton
- Started: 3,083,000
- Ended: 2,703,000
Clinton REDUCED the Federal Workforce by 380,000
George W Bush
- Started: 2,703,000
- Ended: 2,756,000
Bush EXPANDED the Federal Workforce by 53,000
Obama's numbers cannot be tallied yet because he is still in office, but here are some interesting facts.
By the end of 2010, the United States had less employees than we did at the end of Reagan even though the population has grown from 226,545,805 to approximately 330,000,000 in 2010.
Government workforce: Reagan V. Obama
1988 — 3,113,000 

2010— 2,840,000
In his 3rd year Reagan added 1.2 million government employees, which not only improved his employment stats, but it put more spenders/consumers in the economy which prevented main street layoffs.
By contrast Obama was forced by filibuster to lay-off 250,000 government employees during his 3rd year.
CONCLUSION: Reagan increased government employment in order to fuel his economy - and it worked. So Republicans knew exactly what they were doing when they forced Obama to withdraw funding to State Governments. They knew this would result in less cops, firemen, road workers, teachers, administrators, etc., buying goods on main street. Make no mistake. When Republicans are in office they use every big government stimulus tool in the book. When a democrat is in office they filibuster against anything that will put more consumers on main street.
