Where are the jobs?

[Ragorn]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011 ... -be-it.php

"In the last two years, under President Obama, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs," Boehner said. "If some of those jobs are lost so be it. We're broke."

So be it. If some of those jobs are lost, who cares? Unemployment? So what?

So be it.

And I draw your attention to the update: "[T]here were only 20,000 more federal employees under Obama in 2010 than under George W. Bush in 2002." So no whining about the government bureaucracy being out of control.

[kiryan]

In rebuttal... 5 seconds on google and a disclaimer of I don't know what the truth is.

This article says 1.2 million in 2008, 1.35 million in 2011. Thats 150k... closer to 200k than 150k. Given Obama increased department budgets by what an average of 20%? You should read that as headcount.. whether they are already hired or not is a question of semantics.

Whether its cutting staff or just cutting budget I don't care. cut it so much that it can't continue to bother me in my personal life.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... -of-big-g/

Mr. Obama says the civilian work force will drop by 80,000 next year, mostly because of a reduction in U.S. census workers added in 2010 but then dropped in 2011 after the national population count is finished. That still leaves 1.35 million civilian federal employees on the payroll in 2011.

From 1981 through 2008, the civilian work force remained at about 1.1 million to 1.2 million, with a low of 1.07 million in 1986 and a high of more than 1.2 million in 1993 and in 2008. In 2009, the number jumped to 1.28 million.

Including both the civilian and defense sectors, the federal government will employ 2.15 million people in 2010 and 2.11 million in 2011, excluding Postal Service workers.