Big, Big Government!!

"As conservatives continue to decry supposed booming growth in the size of the American government, the public sector lost another 9,000 jobs in July, according to the Labor Department report released Friday. The public sector, comprised of federal, state, and local government employees, has now cut more than 680,000 jobs since 2009, the worst three-year period on record. Without those public sector cuts, the unemployment rate would be a full-point lower. And that growing American government? It is now smaller than it has been since 1968, according to a Federal Reserve Economic Data chart published by The Atlantic’s Jordan Weissman:

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See also:

• SOCIALISM!
• Stimulus - Response
• Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower? Would You Believe It's Barack Obama? - Forbes (5/24/2012)  http://onforb.es/JBI8Xp
• An RNC speaker said Obama made it more difficult for him to get government money - Phil Archuletta, GOP Convention Speaker, Blasts Government For Not Giving Him More Money - (8/28/2012) http://huff.to/PrrSKx
• @thinkprogress: Private prisons cost Arizona millions more per year than state-run prisons http://thkpr.gs/RQI83O (8/2012)
• 8/2012: Romney once boasted about "enormous" federal spending that made the Salt Lake Olympics possible http://huff.to/RQFjQ7
• Most ppl greatly overestimate foreign aid as 1/4 of total budget--it's closer to 1 percent. http://1.usa.gov/NqsJo6  #biggov
• RT @TheYoungTurks: How the Right Wing Destroyed the U.S. Postal Service http://youtu.be/Iqt_56eX7zQ via @SamSeder of @majorityfm (8/11/2012)
• How many Republicans are on Welfare or collecting Farm or Agricultural Subsidies, or other Federal Benefits like Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid - renard's column on Newsvine (2010) http://bit.ly/NyUbBk