Fact Checking the Cry Baby

Yesterday Speaker John Boner said that President Obama had created 200,000 federal government jobs. I wish that were true. I really wish the public sector had hired that many workers.  It would be great for the economy, great for the tax base, great for the recovery and great for those wanting to cut the deficit.

But, of course, Boehner was lying.  Hard to believe I know.  Ezra Klein did some number crunching and it turns out since Jan. 2009 when Obama took office and Jan. '11, roughly 58,000 workers were added to federal payrolls.  That's a far cry from 200,000.  But in the Republican Fantasy World, a world where they really believe George W. Bush created 10 million new jobs, 58K equals 200K, and maybe the most surprising thing of all, they view it as a bad thing to create new jobs.  After all, the point of Boehner's remarks was not to brag about Obama creating jobs but to say it would be a good thing if the people lost those jobs.

The hypocrisy begs me to repeat it all again.  John Boehner is a federal employee who enjoys a health care system that is completely funded by tax payer dollars.  His paycheck, his health care, his entire family benefits from his federal job.  And not only did he vote numerous times to repeal health care access for 30 million people, and vote against repealing his own socialist health care, now here he is saying people who have new federal jobs should lose them.