ANOTHER "LIBERAL" FACT

Remember how the wingnuts tell us that government can't create any jobs? Well, we have another expert who tells us that that is BS:

Lackluster Private Hiring Reflects Economy's Struggles

by NPR Staff and Wires
August 6, 2010

"We've definitely seen a one, two month — in some cases three month — drop in the economic data," Brian Wesbury, chief economist at First Trust in Chicago, told NPR.

Conversely, financial firms shed 17,000 workers and construction companies cut 11,000 jobs — the third straight month of losses.

"We just lost government support for the housing market and that can cost us in the construction area … and in finance because of mortgage brokers," Wesbury said.