Earlier this month, I pointed out the blatantly obvious fact that government employees are people with jobs who buy things and pay for services, and that firing them means there will be less people with jobs buying less things and paying for less services.
Here’s Mitt Romney:
“That stimulus he put in place, it didn’t help private sector jobs, it helped preserve government jobs, and the one place we should have cut back was on government jobs. We have a 145,000 more government workers under this president. Let’s send them home and put you back to work!”
So, somehow, destroying a whole bunch of jobs will create jobs! Good to know.
I really don’t get what’s so confusing about the idea that government jobs are in fact actual jobs, filled by actual people, who buy actual things with their money.
520 Chestnut 
Romney is the worst kind of entitled, white, rich guys… can he really hope to get elected??
Yes, yes he can. As face-palm inducing as it may be, polls show he is more trusted to deal with deficits and debt than Obama, even though Obama has signed into law a plan to reduce spending, and Romney proposes to cut taxes, increase defense spending, and not touch entitlements! The debt would explode! And yet here we are
[…] situation would be looking much better than it does now. And contra Romney, those jobs are real jobs held by real people who spend their money at real businesses. There simply is no means by which laying off 600,000 […]