Politics and Money

[DesertDrifter]

i was going by the graph you posted, which shows a decline.

You forgot food stamps in your laundry list, btw.

But even if the issue is arguable, it still doesn't paint a distinction between parties on that issue as viewed by statistics. The other was the premise that the democrats have expanded the public sector.

Here is something about that:

Private-sector jobs grow as government jobs decline: Sunday's Numbers
Published: Sunday, April 10, 2011, 9:00 AM

1,656,000: Increase in private-sector jobs nationally from March 2010 through last month, an increase of 1.5 percent, Bureau of Labor statistics show.

356,000: Estimated cut in government jobs during the same period, a drop of 1.6 percent.

http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2011/04/private_jobs_grow_and_governme.html

So the democrats are expanding the public sector, are they?