Given that we still have close to four unemployed for every job opening out there, continuing to slash public workforces not only slices into needed services, but plain old puts people out of work. And then the people doing the slashing (or applauding it) criticize the Administration for joblessness. Smooth move.
And, yes, those public jobs cost tax money. So what? You can pay for them as private employees (through the cost of goods), you can pay for them as public employees (through taxes), you can pay for them as unemployed (through poverty benefits), or you can pay to carry their bodies to the morgue. You pay for it one way or the other.
Of course, if someone goes from being a police officer to flipping burgers at McDonald's, I guess that "costs" less. In some ways. In others, not so much.
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Public Workers Face Continued Layoffs, and Recovery Is Hurt
With the economy slowly expanding, state tax revenues have started to recover, but governors and legislatures are keeping a tight rein on spending.
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