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Wounded Bear

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3. K & R...and...

Reply to cthulu2016 (Original post)

Fri Apr 4, 2014, 01:51 PM

Apr 2014

for me the fun part is how this fact supports the Repub position that "government can't do anything right." Of course, the real reason is that they've cut workers to the bone so that every government employee is doing 2-3 people's jobs or worse, but we can't discuss that now, can we?

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USA employment loss 2007-2014 = the 547,000 jobs eliminated by conservatism [View all] cthulu2016 Apr 2014 OP

But the Republicons are the Job Creators (TM) corkhead Apr 2014 #1

. cthulu2016 Apr 2014 #2

K & R...and... Wounded Bear Apr 2014 #3

So the GOP notion that Obama is growing the government uncontrollably is false... Cali_Democrat Apr 2014 #4

Yes. (Though the figure is all levels of government) cthulu2016 Apr 2014 #5

. cthulu2016 Apr 2014 #6