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RE :”And private companies created few new jobs after 2000 — and then managed to lose them all, and more: Private job growth is minus 2 percent over the last decade — there's 2.2 million fewer private workers to pay for those 1.6 million new public-sector workers. In short, when it comes to private job growth, the last decade has been a lost decade. A big part of the reason: State and local governments never got around to adjusting to the last recession. After the tech bubble burst, the private sector shed 3.5 percent of its jobs over two years, or nearly 3 million. But the public sector kept on hiring through the early-2000s slump. Politicians added 5 percent (647,000 people) to local payrolls and 3 percent (167,000 people) to state ones. Most of these new workers — nearly half a million — were, yes, teachers and education administrators. Back then, because local and state pols chose to spare their workforces the pain, they had to inflict it somewhere else. So states like New York and California spent the early 2000s raising taxes, slashing infrastructure investments and taking on debt.
That should have left them with no choice but to start firing public workers two years ago, when the bottom fell out of their tax revenues. (After all, the construction industry depends on the same source of revenue — property values — as do local governments, and residential-construction jobs are down 31 percent since 2000.)
Instead, the 2009 stimulus law sent more than $220 billion to state and local governments — without asking them to pare their workforces or workers’ benefits. But now the stimulus cash is running out. So the state and local government jobs that it “saved” are starting to disappear, as governments around the nation do what their voters have been doing for three years now — cutting back. “

This busts the myth of the great job expansion the last 10 years.

The liberal Keynesian dogma doesn't allow for the above(cutting government) . It says when private sector hiring stops then government needs to hire more to pick up the slack in demand(Chris Matthews calls it the “...best economic minds following the best thinking ...”.) Alternatively when the economy recovers we must grow government even more because we are a ‘rich nation that can afford it’, they call it 'economic justice'.

” It says when private sector hiring stops then government needs to hire more to pick up the slack in demand(Chris Matthews calls it the “...best economic minds following the best thinking ...”.)”

Ya know how to obtain “ economic justice” ? You get as good of an education as you can, in a field where there is constant demand, then work 60 hours a week and work smart. I retired at 52....self employed all these years. I gots me my “economic justice” ;-)