Media Covering For Harry Reid

Last week, Senate Democrat leader Harry Reid said that private sector jobs were "doing just fine" but that there was a major problem with public sector employment. This crazy statement was part of a Democrat attempt to justify sending forty billion dollars to states and localities in order to support union workers. No one in his right mind would say that private sector jobs are doing fine. Indeed, since Obama became president, the USA has suffered a net loss of well more than two million private sector jobs. The media, however, is now jumping in to do its part to help Reid get his foot out of his mouth. Tonight, the AP is out with an article under the headline: "Government job losses a growing drag on recovery --
Private-sector jobs slowly returning, but being dragged down by rising government layoffs" That's right, AP is now buying into Reid's ridiculous statement.

Here is the truth. According to the AP in this very article, government at all levels has lost about 350,000 jobs since 2007. This is not a one month total, but a four year total. And here is the kicker: if none of these jobs had been lost, then the unemployment rate which is currently 9.1% would be reduced to 9.0%. Let me repeat that: if none of the public sector jobs had been lost over the last four years, the current unemployment rate would be only 0.1% lower. So the AP and Harry Reid are telling the American people that this is where the problem lies when lost public jobs have had essentially no effect on the national rate of unemployment.

I wonder if the AP reporter understands that his story is based upon a lie or if the AP reporter is too stupid to bother to check out the actual facts. Either way, the story is a disgrace. The American people should no longer accept lies from the media as a way of life.