Every first Friday of the month we get a jobs report and every one of them seems to show job growth in the private sector being dragged down by sharp decreases in public sector jobs. In fact, I looked at the report that came out today. I’m not completely geeking out here. It is the first time I have ever looked at a jobs report, but I was curious. Everyone is always talking about how many net jobs were created and glosses over the declines in public sector jobs. The fact of the matter is that the private sector has added 333k jobs in the last 3 months. Not very good, but it is gaining jobs. However, the public sector has lost 117k jobs.

Republicans are always saying that government cannot solve our economic woes. True or not, that’s what they think. It is clear with these numbers that government can and is pouring gas on this fire. Cut, cut, cut…that’s all we’ve been talking about over the past few months. When we cut government spending we’re directly contributing to the jobs crisis. This is wrong! This makes no sense! Government should be adding jobs to the economy. Imagine if the federal government invested in a huge jobs program to refit all government buildings to bring them up to the Energy Star standards that the federal government promotes. Or something.

Jobs program? Yeah, that’s not going to happen and we know why. The Republican party is ruthless, mean-spirited and obsessed with any Democrat who lives at 1600 Penn. We know that they will lie. We know they are happy to destroy the lives of anyone to elect a Republican President. Collateral damage is expected. Fourteen million people without jobs is a means to their ends. They’ve just spent 6 months trying to convince the world that we have a spending problem and need to cut, cut, cut. Overwhelmingly it is clear that our spending problem is that we are not spending enough.

So we know the problem. It seems that the President is still giving them the benefit of the doubt. He must think that they have souls and actually care that people don’t have jobs. I remember that, a long time ago…that’s what I thought. Republicans are heartless, greedy and very, very focused. They are willing to destroy the country so they can blame it on Democrats and win back the White House.

I can’t continue to watch this train wreck. We have to stand up and kick their asses.