295.000 jobs created in February, unemployment rate down to 5.5%

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No, it's what you get when you vote for dumb small government reactionaries.   A true conservative would cut the size of government by cutting programs, not by forcing programs to run with too few employees.  I'll be having to go the DMV this month to renew my driver's license, and I expect to be in and out in under half an hour, maybe even in under ten minutes if I get lucky.

They're not dumb. They are the only people looking at the price tag. Liberals are genuinely clueless about how much money they spend. It's like watching a bejeweled it-girl max out the credit card every month, and the spout vitriol at the first person who tells her to get a job and get her spending under control.

Who wouldn't fantasize about outlawing credit cards? The number of liberals who remain in this modern era of excess is a tribute to the power of human ignorance.

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You're such a hack.



A spike after the Recovery Act that has leveled off to pre-recession levels.  

Oh, are you talking about individual people?  You are saying that you are privy to information that shows LIBERALS are the ones that max out their credit cards and piss all their money away?  There's no way you can even know this, so it discredits you even more than you already have done to yourself in your glorious Atlas posting history.  Hell, I'll just stick with that, and not even mention that how bad the housing and credit crisis hit the notoriously conservative suburbs and exurbs. 

We're talking about the cost of individual programs, not total federal spending as a function of GDP.

Furthermore, I've explained why federal spending as a function of GDP is not an accurate representation of what the government actually does. Do you remember why? or are you just hacking around because you don't like the public spending data, when it's broken down per capita or per beneficiary?

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When you cut expenses not by selling off stuff you don't want any more but putting it out on your lawn to rust in the rain for all to see, you're dumb.

The government is taxing steel and subsidizing rust. I'm not sure how you've led yourself to believe this is actually a conservative conspiracy, but you're not unlike 50% of the country. These people are the epicenter of our problems.

When you blame the symptoms (rabid conservatism) for the disease (government avarice, largesse, and excess), you're dumb. If people want conservatives to go away, stop failing spectacularly.

We generate similar per capita revenue to other OECD nations. We throw it away on frivolous end-of-life medical procedures and welfare for seniors who are already economically and socially secure. It will never be okay, whether conservatives exist or not so quite bleating like a lost child.

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Like, what is your argument here?  You want understaffed government offices because only you conservatives understand how harmful it is to pay people to do a job?  Us liberals always paying people like some shopaholic teen girl!  Yes, you dislike the working class and are appalled at the idea paying taxes to support these parasites.  We get it. 

This merely highlights how little you know and understand about federal spending. Conservatives actually pay government workers via DOD and VA, which account for about 65% of all government employees.

SSA and HHS have about 200,000 employees, yet they command about 250% more federal funds. Your political party hires 200,000 people to cut $1.9T in checks to American citizens, regardless of their needs or the economic benefit of the disbursed funds, except a small portion of Medicaid set aside for the poor. But please continue fantasizing about a 20% bump in the employee roll call.

American liberals are just a listless herd of relatively-wealthy, uneducated Americans, who argue with another group of wealthy Americans about who is poorer. Naturally, the results are less than stellar.

BTW, I'm not a conservative. I'm just someone who sees the world for what it is.