Ad Nauseum.

A while ago HERE, I wrote the following, probably while escorting a fine young thing and her twin sister from my boudoire "sure baby, yeah, I'll call, of course!":

This brilliant Congressman has decided the best way for economic recovery is for the Government to lay off a bunch of people, since I guess the 500,000 government workers who've lost their jobs (or the ones still around with pay freezes) in the last two years isn't enough.

Also, yes, one thing that could surely help the unemployment rate is by unleashing even more people into it's ranks while simultaneously reducing the services government provide that could either offer assistance to gain employment, or employment via government contracts.  Of course! After all, as I wrote before, the gub'ment isn't made up of, you know, ACTUAL PEOPLE.

But Republicans must be thrilled, because as you know it's not as if 500,000 people are going to be added to the already extraordinarily large unemployment rolls, lose their livelihoods, and therein won't be able to spend any money in the very communities with small businesses the GOP pretends to champion since of course government on any level bigger than the Junior Women's Club is not made up of real people that you may know and live amongst, but are instead a faceless, nameless phantasm of evil, socialist energy that will merely be forced into some backroom to shake it's fists at the sky "damn you, freedom, you've beaten me THIS time!!!" and rub it's hands with glee at the prospect of coming back again and trying to destroy America as if in some Spy vs. Spy cartoon or Jerry muttering "Newman!!" through clenched teeth.

Today we see this:

Looks like we had 17,000 thousand new private sector jobs in August, which were 100 percent offset by 17,000 lost jobs in the public sector.  The striking zero result should galvanize minds, but it’s worth noting that this has been the trend all year. The public sector has been steadily shrinking. According to the conservative theory of the economy, when the public sector shrinks that should super-charge the private sector...we ought to be forcefully trying to avoid public sector layoffs knowing that workers are also customers for the private sector. But we’re not.

Demanding public employees lose their jobs because the government is Satan doesn't make Jesus and his lovable, scrappy sidekick Baby Jesus personally come to your house to thank you for loving freedom and the US Constitution; it simply means those employees take YOUR job, presumably with a loss of public services available to you that you've already paid for.  Brilliant, professor.