America has been breathlessly awaiting the calamity that was predicted to befall the Washington D.C. area due to the “draconian” budget cuts known as the sequester.
Now, the April data is in from the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics detailing how the D.C. area is doing as it copes with the much bemoaned big government spending reduction hit.
Well it turns out the D.C. job situation is just fine.
While the number of government workers declined nationwide over the past year, in D.C., where people learn early how to feather their own nests, the situation is quite cozy. The stunning 0.8 percent increase in the number of government jobs in the D.C. area since last April certainly belies the predicted local economic catastrophe.
Now that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has provided assurance to America that D.C.’s bureaucrat class is thriving amidst the sequester tsunami, they are turning their attention to the more mundane unemployment report for the month of May.
This monthly ritual creates great fanfare in the financial world as bettors attempt to ride the stock and bond markets upward or downward based upon what happens on the first Friday of virtually every month.
Yet, the awful truth is the reported headline of the unemployment rate is not at all reflective of the economic condition of our nation.
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Rick Manning (@rmanning957) is the Vice President of Public Policy and Communications for Americans for Limited Government.
54 comments
As long as the GOP Pummels Obama at EVERY opportunity…the people who BUILD this country will stand and cheer. I don’t think the Cheaters and Bitter-Haters will vote if it’s not for their lord-god idol Obama…so we’ll do very well in 2014.
Kick Obama’s @$$, Congress….like you did w/ the Sequester. That was small potatoes. Gun Control and Immigration and defunding ObamaCare (see Sebilius Death Panels)….
Beat the Livin $#!* out of him and the democrats…and you will be rewarded…
Just like The Sequester….
As long as the GOP Pummels Obama??!! When have they done that?? HAHAHAHAHHA!! They are resorting to fabricated scandals out of desperation!!
Which scandal is fabricated?They all seem legitimate to me.
yep yep
The ONLY fabricated scandals are the ones that you libtards have deemed scandals your simple little minds. To anyone of normal intelligence, there are several very real very serious situations unfolding with the most damaging testimony yet to come. I’ve not witnessed a president floundering quite the way Barack Obama is foundering currently. The cacophony of scandals bouncing around in his head right now is turning him into less of a leader than he was previous to these revelations, if that’s even possible. His town fool turned second in command has all but vanished from the spotlight, canceling his annual lapdog media beach party is just another step in ramping up the opacity of their “historically transparent” administration. The entire thing is beyond embarrassing.
The GOP has won on Sequester; Gun Control and will win on Immigration…
Not to mention: The Trials for the IRS; Media-snooping Gestapo and Benghazi are starting produce fruit…Thank God for a Republican Congress, or we’d have Hitler on the loose, Part II….
My wife was one of the last people to get hired at Shaw Air Force Base as a gubmint employee before the sequester cuts started. Shaw Air Force Base just “laid off” (fired) 14 gubmint employees due to the sequester. Guess who got cut? If you guessed my wife you are correct.
I hope you rendered a BIG Thank you to Obama for your suffering, as he parties and laughs at you…
Since he took office, revenue for National Securutiy has Dropped Significantly…and has no remedy…except to say “Good For You.”
I’m sure he’s teeing off on the back 9, as my family takes it up the backside.
Typical Republican,all for cutting the budget except when it affects him of course!
I’m sorry, you’re painfully incorrect about my political affiliation.
1) Obama is SCREWING er’body…he only discriminates by his Race-Hate…and hate for Conservatives…
2) National Security is Obama’s NUMBER ONE obligation, w/ our money…not $90 Billion for an idiot Solar Panel Company that went out of business, about as soon as it went into business…
Wait let me guess?
“Conservative Independent!”
Wrong.
Whatever you say Republican.Look you gave yourself away with the “libtard” remark.thats a favorite of the Right Wingnut crowd.Next time dont be soobvious!
He didn’t say Libitard Sarah. Boo Hoo. Little libitard got called out by one of his own and then he lies to cover up.
Oh, sorry, par for the course. He whom yells the most gets the most and is most accurate, right Sarah??
BBBBwwwwahahaahahahaahahah
Fucking libitards.
Yeh he did.See his comment to Vanguard below.Didnt you read it or are you purposefully lying?Then again you voted for Obama.Right Pytel?another damn Republican who wont admit what he is!Hey I miss that Republicrat BS,what happened?
Yes I did vote for Oshitforbrains. Then promptly walked outside and puked. They had to bring the hose out to wash it off the sidewalk. Don’t you read the news? It was quite a story in our little Libitard haven of Republicrats.
As to the Repukelican BS, I have a job. I actually created that as a tab and have it saved on my desktop to speed things up. But posting back or in front of you little commie SOB’s has gotten to time consuming. You see, the Gubmint has decided that 65% of my take home pay should be spent as child support. Nuff said.
Frank Pytel
FUCK ALL YOU LITTLE COMMIE WHORES I’M AN ANGRY PENIS AND I DEMAND SATISFACTION FROM THE GUBMINT. Unfortunately I’m WHITE, between 18 and 50, MALE and that don’t bode well for me with the Repuklicrats and Demlicans in charge.
The ONLY fabricated scandals are the ones that you libtards have deemed scandals your simple little minds.
Jay Ellington, 4 hours ago.
Look you gave yourself away with the “libtard” remark.
Sarah Palin Forever!, 3 hours ago
Just sayin’.
He uses an accurate description, and you indict him…yet you think IRS targeting Conservatives is OK, because it’s Obama doing it……
You people are CORRUPTION personified……
Ohhh Sarah. You upset one of your libitard friends!!
Gee, Jay, I’m sorry your wife didn’t keep her fucking government job.
Thanks for the faux sympathy, wasn’t looking for it, but thanks. Simply making an anecdotal statement related to my personal experience with the sequester.
I agree you should be upset, but you will have to explain why you blame Obama. The Sequester was voted on by the Congress, including the Republicans in the House and Senate. Obama’s proposal would not have cut Shaw.
Didn’t Obama say he would veto any attempt to sidestep the sequester back in 2011?
No, he said he would veto the Republican proposal to exempt only defense spending from the Sequester. If you want to blame anyone, blame the people who voted the Sequester into law.
My wife was one of the last people to get hired at Shaw Air Force Base as a gubmint employee before the sequester cuts started. Shaw Air Force Base just “laid off” (fired) 14 gubmint employees due to the sequester. Guess who got cut? If you guessed my wife you are correct.
I agree you should be upset, but you will have to explain why you blame Obama. The Sequester was voted on by the Congress, including the Republicans in the House and Senate. Obama’s proposal would not have cut Shaw.
Didn’t Obama say he would veto any attempt to sidestep the sequester back in 2011?
No, he said he would veto the Republican proposal to exempt only defense spending from the Sequester. If you want to blame anyone, blame the people who voted the Sequester into law.
Oh we have a nation? So true you can feel it. No business done but how my rating.
Oh we have a nation? So true you can feel it. No business done but how my rating.
Once again.. the sequester is not a cut. It is a REDUCTION in the INCREASE of spending. Therefore, no-one needed to be laid off or programs stopped. This is all a “game of chicken,” initiated by the Obama administration. His words, his idea.
I would only rephrase to say ‘initiated by the Republicrats and the Demlicans.’
Once again.. the sequester is not a cut. It is a REDUCTION in the INCREASE of spending. Therefore, no-one needed to be laid off or programs stopped. This is all a “game of chicken,” initiated by the Obama administration. His words, his idea.
I would only rephrase to say ‘initiated by the Republicrats and the Demlicans.’
What…You mean Obama lied to the American people??….That’s just too hard to believe. He would NOT do that…..Yall just hate him cause he ain’t like yall….You Kenya-phobes…