Unemployment rate is at 9.9, up from 9.7, so what is going on? The paragraph above explained it but the GOP likes to explain it in different terms. Gov. Pawlenty says the job growth is mostly government jobs. " The idea that government grows the economy when all they really do is extract money from taxpayers, bring it into the bureaucracy and put it back out into the economy on a political agenda is not growth". Typical rethug talking points, so lame...
Sen. McConnell says the stimulus bill did little or nothing to stimulate the private sector, but probably saved state government jobs.
Boehner slobbered as he said the president promised that 90% of the jobs saved or created would be private sector jobs, he also thinks most of the "so-called" jobs are government jobs.
Gov. Barbour bellows "we need private sector jobs", state government has benefited from the stimulus because it's poured in billions of dollars.
and last but not least, Eric Can't Cantor says "we've got to start focusing not just on jobs but on private sector jobs" DUH...
Aren't the rethug talking points sooooo boring?? Shouldn't the GOP be excited at these new numbers? They would be if we had a republican in the White House, now wouldn't they?
In actuality, and what the GOP decides to ignore, is that of the 290,000 jobs created in April, 231,000
of them were in the private sector! The private sector has added 523,000 new jobs in 2010. This includes 44,000 manufacturing jobs, the biggest number since August 1998! So folks, April was the strongest month for jobs growth since March, 2006.
Now GOP'ers, I'm not an economist but I can read a bikini chart, can you??
