Small Government Socialist

When the President defends his record on jobs he always says something like "the economy has had 23 months of private sector jobs growth." Why does he have to qualify the jobs as "private sector?" Because net government layoffs have meant that the public sector has been a drag on job growth for most of two years. Government has been getting smaller for more than half the time the President has been in office. Despite what you might have heard, firing government workers is a bad idea when there is near double digit unemployment.