By Warner Todd Huston ——Bio and Archives--August 2, 2013
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If those layoffs had not happened, if public sector employees grew like they did in the past two recessions, the unemployment rate would be 6.5 instead of 7.5. Our economy would be much better off, and the deficit would still be going down because we would be getting more tax revenue.He went on to whine about the sequester, again.
Instead of using a scalpel to get rid of programs we don’t need and keep vital investments that we do, the same group has kept in place this meat cleaver called the sequester that is just slashing all kinds of investments in education and research and our military. Yet all the things that are needed to make this country a magnet for good middle class jobs, those things are being cut. These moves don’t just hurt our economy in the long term. They hurt our middle class right now.Sorry, but government workers don't create a "middle class." Government workers of all stripes are not an economic boon but are little else but parasites on the economy. They live off of the economy they don't live within the economy. Government workers drain an economy they don't improve or expand it. Below is part one of the speech as uploaded by a Youtuber who was at the speech. I chose it because it is unfiltered by the Old Media establishment… You can see part two and part three on Youtube.
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.