Yes, the economy has been producing more private-sector jobs, at least, at a painfully slow rate. One can only imagine how many more jobs there would be without the steep decline in public-sector jobs, as discussed here.
This decline, of course, sits squarely on the shoulders of Republicans in Congress and state houses. It has nothing to do with balancing the budget and everything to do with class warfare, Republican-style. It represents their attempt to blackmail working people into voting for them, by destroying unions and union jobs and benefits, and shipping the savings overseas, leaving the rest of us to complete for a shrinking pool of minimum-wage jobs. Even the Congressional Budget Office can't hide what they're doing.
In the long run, they are cutting their own throats because their profits come from our spending. But in the short run, they think this form of blackmail will work for them.
Shame on you if you let it. Those who fought for the rights and benefits we have, often at great personal cost, will never forgive you. And neither will your children.
Does it take this to wake you up? It shouldn't have to. But, if it does, perhaps it hasn't happened in vain.
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