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How many Republicans have govt. jobs?
Why do Rep/Con/Teas continue to allow this?

I agree. I've worked heavily in gov't contracting in the past, and noticed that they hire about 10 people to do the same job that 1 person would do in the private sector.

Yet somehow Medicare is more efficient than private insurance companies.

So, let's destroy the middle class further by getting rid of government jobs. You must not have heard about Greece.

Gary Anderson says

So, let's destroy the middle class further by getting rid of government jobs. You must not have heard about Greece.

Lets improve the living standards of the middle class by reducing government jobs and making it more efficient.

Gary Anderson says

So, let's destroy the middle class further by getting rid of government jobs. You must not have heard about Greece.

Let's reduce national debt, by not having to pay these leaches.

"Let's reduce national debt, by not having to pay these leaches"

By cutting the tax base? Unemployed people pay no taxes, and require more benefits.

How about increasing private employment by reducing the cost of housing and the cost of commercial real estate? Then it will be much easier to repatriate all our lost manufacturing jobs.

How to do it? The answer is simple: FRB (Fed) has to increase short-term interest rates back to the normal range of 3-4%. This will result in ASSET deflation on a grand scale.

What is needed is more privately-employed people, not fewer government-employed people. In fact, all the statistics I have seen is that government employment is DOWN since 2009, on Obama's watch.

"How about increasing private employment by reducing the cost of housing and the cost of commercial real estate? Then it will be much easier to repatriate all our lost manufacturing jobs.
How to do it? The answer is simple: FRB (Fed) has to increase short-term interest rates back to the normal range of 3-4%. This will result in ASSET deflation on a grand scale."

No offense, but that is ridiculous. If you want to lower housing costs--build more damn houses. If you want to lower rent, build more damn apartments. Period. We don't need asset deflation--we need more supply. But, lower housing costs won't bring jobs back anyway. Unless you want to race to the bottom.

There is no "normal" range of interest rates and the Federal Reserve doesn't set them.