That's a great point, thanks for looking it up I hadn't even thought of looking at it in pure dollar terms. I was actually talking about this: 'Government empl

That's a great point, thanks for looking it up I hadn't even thought of looking at it in pure dollar terms. I was actually talking about this: 'Government employment is now 1.9 percent lower than it was at the start of the recovery, a drop of 430,000 jobs. In contrast, government employment rose by 1.1 percent (or 232,000 jobs) during the equivalent part of the last recovery.' Pretty much anytime government employment is going DOWN, it is hard to argue that the response has been in any way keynesian. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/what-makes-this-recovery-different-from-other-recoveries-government-for-one/2011/08/05/gIQAm6SYwI_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/what-mak...