Republican Recovery in One Graph

For over two years Republicans have been telling us that in order to get the economy back on track we have to jolt the private sector by starving socialist public sector employment. Well here you go:

This should mean we are on our way to full recovery via Liberty and Freedom right?  Well, not exactly.  Judging from our latest 1% growth rate, it means our economy is just as dependent upon the public sector as it is the private sector.  Public servants, such as teachers, cops, firefighters, bus drivers all play a large role in our very advanced, technologically structured 21st century economy.  To think that we can somehow starve the public sector and thus bring back economic growth is absurd.

But this is what Republicans are telling us we should do.  The trend in the graph above is exactly the path they say we have to be on in order to get America's economic engine running again.  If there is anyone who can look at the latest GDP numbers, the latest housing numbers and the latest consumer confidence numbers, and then that graph and tell me we are on the right path, you're crazy.