Over the past year, we’ve consistently seen the economy engage in so-so private sector job growth offset by job losses in the public sector. The results are, if you ask me, bad. But in a decent world, conservatives would be forced to acknowledge that these are the results they claim to want. The private sector’s not being held back by the grasping arm of big government. Government is shrinking. And the shrinking of the government sector isn’t leading to any kind of private sector explosion. It’s simply offsetting meager private sector growth.
From The Ongoing Conservative Recovery
This is assuming that conservatives want that because they think that it is good economics policy. I think its much more likely that they want those results irregardless of the economic consequences. They want to shrink government to shrink government.
