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   dtroutma said, 1 day ago

   Simple math, Lisa might want to check how many folks work in the private, versus “public” sectors. Of course she might also look at how many “private sector” jobs are actually paid by the government- like Lockheed/Martin?

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   ReasonsVentriloquist said, about 24 hours ago

   What? Now we’re afraid that the government is hogging up all the employable persons?

   The other day I was talking to my bank about when they were going to switch over to Windows7 and they said “last q10 1Q11” Then they added… it’s not that the bank is short the money it’s just that the bodies are doing a different project!

   HIRE SOMBODY!

   Cisco says they are looking to lay on 2 to 3,000 workers to keep up with the expected demand in IT spending! (About fricken time!)

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   Ken Warren said, about 24 hours ago

   2 Millions Americans have lost their jobs in the past two years, if the “Private Sector” was hiring they would have a lot of people to choose from.

   The Far Right and the GOP don’t care about these people, but the GOP doesn’t want to take the blame so they, now that they are out of power, want to blame everything on the government.

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   HOWGOZIT said, about 23 hours ago

   The federal government had the largest gain in employees this past year.

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   agent.007 said, about 22 hours ago

   The referee in the game Lisa depicts is the Public Sector, so you know how the game has to turn out, regardless of how it should.

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   ANandy said, about 21 hours ago

   A dollar taken in taxes to support the “public sector” is a dollar less for the private sector to create wealth.
   Public sector is make work.

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   d_legendary1 said, about 20 hours ago

   “Public sector is make work.”

   You were incoherent before, AN_uz. Now you’ve totally lost it.

   I didn’t know referees suited up to play the game, skinhead007.

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   Libertarian1 said, about 7 hours ago

   In the past 2 years millions of jobs have been lost in this country. We have a 9.7% + unemployment rate. If you count discouraged workers and those only working part time the rate is 15%+. During this time of massive unemployment the government has added 500,000 workers. How do they get paid? Obviously by taxes. If you cut the government work force by 1-2 million gave their pay raised by taxes back to the country, think of the results. Each individual would have more spending money and would purchase needs. The private sector would fill those needs and do more hiring and these newly hired workers would make more purchases. A wonderful circle.

   Every single government worker is a drain on this country. A few we actually need and many do valuable work but still a drain. Add into that these workers are unionized and are bankrupting the country. California is the first of many failed states. 25% of their shortfall is payments made to unionized workers as benefits. It has to end.

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   ReasonsVentriloquist said, about 3 hours ago

   Your “discouraged worker” stat is outdated and discredited.

   The “DW” was a person that had been out of work for longer than the unemployment benefits lasted. That number used to be 13 weeks, and so when someone was unemployed for 14 weeks he fell off the unemployment roles and was no longer counted. The opposition (which ever side was trying to make the point at the given side) would take up the plight of the DW and pump the unemployment numbers (rightfully so, in my estimation).

   But unemployment benefits are for 52 weeks now. This means that if the same number of people were unemployed for the same length of time 10 years ago, the unemployment rate would be closer to 2.5% (one quarter of what it is now).

   So you see two things, 1 is that the unemployment rate is not as historically bad as it seems. 2. That your DW is a trash number that really has no relavence to today’s numbers.

   Further, taxes pay these people that the government hired?

   Are you for real? Do you know how far our taxes go? Do you know what the word “Deficit” means?

   No wonder you guys are so mad, you don’t know enough to know that you don’t understand what is going on!

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    dtroutma said, about 3 hours ago

    “Every single government worker is a drain on this country.”??

    No police or fire protection, “Privatized toll roads” that equal paying $53 per gallon for gasoline, no Army/Navy/Air Force/ Marines, no cheap timber on public lands, no cheap forage for ranchers, no agriculture subsidies to “private” farmers(corporations), think what “privatizing” the FAA would cost- while you pay $8 to use a blanket in coach from the airlines, no weather service to warn of floods, snow or crop threats, well yes- it’s truly a mixed bag of whether the services to the public, vs corporations are money down the drain.

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    Magnaut said, about 1 hour ago

    OBMANADE……SQUEEZE SUCCESS AND GET LEMONS