CHART: Over 500,000 Government Jobs Lost Since Obama’s Inauguration [View All]

I know getting rid of public servants is seen as a good thing for Republicans and too many democrats, but those are jobs, and jobs that help people (school teachers, firemen, policemen, ...). It is amazing how it is not a bigger priority of the Democrats, and with the focus on debt relief, even more will be fired. I have to disagree with Yglesias. The WH and Dems in general have a part of the blame as they accepted the meme that the most important thing to do was to reduce the debt without stating the consequences.

http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/07/08/263588/the-conservative-recovery-continues-2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+matthewyglesias+%28Matthew+Yglesias%29
CHART: Over 500,000 Government Jobs Lost Since Obama’s Inauguration



So should we blame today’s bad jobs numbers on Barack Obama’s big government policies? Again, I doubt it. What we continue to see are decent—though not great—private sector job numbers offset by tumbling public sector employment: