Friday, April 09, 2004

Posted here Friday, April 09, 2004 at 4:21:58 PM     overheard - And here's another twist: last week's miraculous and widely applauded jobs report shows a preliminary, seasonally-unadjusted increase in government payrolls of more than half the 308,000 reported. We can see the wonks at work all around the beltway: "Heck, if we can't make the jobs appear, well... we can just hire the workers ourselves!" The U.S. Government already employs nearly 22 million people. What's another 159,000? ********