[Wyatt's Torch]

I'll need to pull this out again on NFP day. The facts are that government job LOSSES are the key driver behind the slow growth in NFP jobs. That will freak everyone here at FR out :-)

[expat_panama]

government job LOSSES are the key driver behind the slow growth

Especially in the Federal government.  It's a real political topic, so we hear a lot of vague bizarre adjectives ("completely out of control", "literally exploding") w/o numbers that are open to all and speak for themselves:

Kind of like the way folks talk about global warming.