Here's a truth. ANY Government Job is a net DRAG on the economy. Someone had to pay for it or we had to borrow the money (Or print it). Certainly we need SOME government employees, but millions fewer than we have. IF a few million were laid off it would be a positive for the economy, not a negative. Time to change the idea of "Working for the Government".

Stephen Moore: We've Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers - WSJ.com

Stephen Moore writes in The Wall Street Journal that more Americans work for the government than in manufacturing, farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities combined.