What are they complaining about?

[cal04]

by David Atkins ("thereisnospoon")
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/what-are-they-complaining-about-by.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Matt Yglesias has the most profound insight into today's jobless numbers:
http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/09/02/310721/the-conservative-recovery-teeters-into-recession/

Looks like we had 17,000 thousand new private sector jobs in August, which were 100 percent offset by 17,000 lost jobs in the public sector.

The striking zero result should galvanize minds, but it’s worth noting that this has been the trend all year. The public sector has been steadily shrinking. According to the conservative theory of the economy, when the public sector shrinks that should super-charge the private sector. What’s happened in the real world has been that public sector shrinkage has simply been paired with anemic private sector growth. This is what I’ve called “The Conservative Recovery.” Conservatives complain about the results because the President is a Democrat named Barack Obama. But the policy result is what conservatives say they want.

Public sector job losses, private sector job gains, in a neat 1-to-1 correspondence. Isn't that exactly what the tea party crowd wanted?

(more at link)

[Curmudgeoness]

1. My insight is that the Reps don't even believe these theories

will work. And they are willing to continue beating that drum because they want to destroy this president. It nauseates me to think that they hate Dems so much that they are willing to destroy the whole country to get rid of him.

But I could be wrong.

[Guilded Lilly]

2. you aren't wrong.

The Republicans will destroy the village, but not to save it. They just want it destroyed. NEVER have I seen such a hideous, ugly group of twisted f*cks as the Republicans in Congress.

[Demeter]

3. Except for the ones who vote for them

Ugly Americans on steroids.