I will also note, that increased racial tension across the country has been spurred on by former USAJ Eric Holder and President Barack Obama to deflect attention away from their administration's failed policies [as well as opportunistically placing the blame - as this article tries to do - on others for their own actions].
Economy shrinks = less money in government coffers = less money for government jobs.
Increased crime rates for young males is directly tied to lack of jobs.
The Black Market (can I use that term?) is thriving in America’s inner cities.
This garbage is based on the idea that public sector workers are exempt from downturns in the economy. Regardless of what happens in the private sector gubmint workers should thrive.
So, now it’s official, wanting smaller more efficient government is racist.
Only this Leftist rag would bemoan the decrease in government jobs for affirmative action hires. If 50% of government workers disappeared, the only noticeable result would be that the surrounding VA counties wouldn’t be the richest in the nation during this economic depression. Over-paid, top-heavy government is always the death of a nation.
Points of bullsh##
(Yes, I know that the majority of Hispanics are US citizens and speak English.)
>>> The Labor Department counts half a million fewer public sector jobs than before the start of the recession in 2007 ...... <<<
(Sort of) YEAH? We have Obama to thank for the so-called ‘shrinking our gubmint’?
Labor Dept statistics did or did not account for such loss of public sector jobs occurred at local level or the federal gubmint? It sure looked like Obama greatly expanded the fed.
>>>> ... Even now, with the economy regaining strength, public sector employment has still not bounced back. ....
Again, this ‘economy rebound’ these guys keep telling us is not wide spread. Public sector employees (esp. non-essential personnel) are notoriously hard to get rid of, why should local government expand these just for the heck of it?
It's a time-honored technique of despots. It's like starting a fire in front of the building to distract everyone while you steal stuff out the back door.
But government revenues are up, not down.
What this shows is that tax revenues are going to Obama’s cronies and their scams, and the unions, and ISIS, rather than to actual government employees.
Exactly. Funny thing, when cities go bankrupt due to Dem policies they lay people off.
RACISM!!!
Economically, public sector jobs are pretty much a net loss. Since the wages of government workers are paid by taxes, so are all the taxes that they pay, paid by the private sector taxpayers. Since public sector workers rarely produce anything, the value of their economic contribution is in the services they provide. Some of these services are necessary (national defense, public order, ect).; some are extremely useful economically (maintaining transportation and communication networks for example); but some are economically negative.
It’s intentional. Bring it down hard on the black folk, then blame it on whitey.
Public sector employees “work?” Who knew?
Disproportionality is certainly okay here when it is blacks that benefit, yet when it comes to things like convictions and incarcerations, it is racism.
I would suggest that if the cutback impact is particularly damaging to 'blacks' as a race rather than one would think of public functionary as a servant - of no particular race or creed, there is an easy remedy to this complaint.
Reduce the disproportionality of their representation in public sector jobs. There, job done, no disproportionality, no disproportionate affects due to cuts. It is simple.
More jobs than their proportion of the population, what do you call that? black privilege Government needs to diversify, establish some affirmative action to address this disparity.
Welfare is a green industry!
Save a whale!
Protect a polar bear!
A lot of people could do well as masons, carpenters, electricians, HVAC, etc. but a lot of people who could do it don’t take the opportunity. I ended up going for electrician after a degree and a fruitless job search that couldn’t find me decent paying jobs. It worked out and I make an okay salary now, and better than as a retail employee with an Environmental Science degree.
Racism 24/7.
Hitting blacks hard. It’s hitting whites hard, too. Why is it always just the blacks who get attention. Many whites are suffering just as much if not more in Obama’s
economy. Hours cut, jobs lost, foreigners hired rather than citizens.