OBAMA'S 'BLOATED GOVERNMENT' CLAIM BUSTED

(WASHINGTON TIMES) After presiding over three consecutive years of trillion-dollar deficits, President Obama told an audience in New York state on Tuesday not to believe critics who accuse him of running a “bloated government.”

“The only time government employment has gone down during a recession has been under me,” Mr. Obama said at a high-tech manufacturing center in Albany. “I make that point just so you don’t buy into that whole ‘bloated government’ argument that you hear.”

Actually, data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that federal employment has risen under Mr. Obama. When he took office in January 2009, there were about 2,064,000 federal workers, excluding the postal service. Last month, there were 2,202,400 such federal employees, an increase of 6.7 percent.

http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2012/05/08/obamas-bloated-government-claim-busted

Don't you just love what comes out of the King's mouth? Must be taking some lessons from Biden.

otisptoadwater wrote:
(WASHINGTON TIMES) After presiding over three consecutive years of trillion-dollar deficits, President Obama told an audience in New York state on Tuesday not to believe critics who accuse him of running a “bloated government.”

“The only time government employment has gone down during a recession has been under me,” Mr. Obama said at a high-tech manufacturing center in Albany. “I make that point just so you don’t buy into that whole ‘bloated government’ argument that you hear.”

Actually, data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that federal employment has risen under Mr. Obama. When he took office in January 2009, there were about 2,064,000 federal workers, excluding the postal service. Last month, there were 2,202,400 such federal employees, an increase of 6.7 percent.

http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2012/05/08/obamas-bloated-government-claim-busted

There is no link to the labor department statistics at that site, no charts, graphs, nothing to back up their claim. Just a short little article in the form of a statement without any facts.

Otis... do you think you can find the statistics to back up this claim?

I probably could but why should I have to do someone else's research? Foxnews is a credible source and I know it will really irritate the libs, it's almost as much fun as watching moths fly into a bug zapper.

Maybe after the usual suspects post their standard tantrums and deflections I'll post a link...

I guess the fish aren't biting so here you go, Government employment stats from the Census Bureau for 2010 http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/g10-aspep.pdf

Oddly enough the Bureau of Labor Statistics has old URLs for this information but none of the links I clicked on took to a page that had any data on Government employment numbers, I wonder why.