At a graduation ceremony for police recruits in Columbus Ohio, President Obama reinforced his commitment to creating or saving jobs with his stimulus bill. The 25 graduates are the first, and only jobs that Obama has connected to his stimulus spending.
In the midst of continuing, dramatic job losses there is a ray of hope. Take a look at this information pulled from the Bureau of Labor Statistics site:
Yup, that’s right. While jobs across the spectrum continue to shrink, there are two groups that continue to break the trend. Government employment along with Education and Health Services have increased their ranks in each and every month of the past 6.
While President Obama argued that less than 20% of his “job creation and saving” would occur in government, the 25 he has identified so far are all in government. 25 out of 25 looks like 100% to me. The BLS statistics look to support that analysis.
All animals are created equal but some animals are more equal than others!
Unrelated but of interest to you:
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/03/06/cox-exchange
Hmmmmmm.
BTW, if you look back even further in BLS stats, you’ll find that “education” and “government” and “health services” have been increasing for at least the past 3 years.
All ex-manufacturing types, too!!
I mean, it’s no problem whatsoever for a manufacturing line-worker to become a Gummint/Education/HealthServices type, right?
Yeah, and The Won wants to increase gumint by 8% to 10% after “going through the budget line by line to cut waste!”