...speaking on the Stand Up with Pete Dominick radio show on Monday, Paul insisted he was only talking about federal employees and that Krugman was wrong to assume he was talking about government employees in general.
“He is flat out wrong,” the Kentucky senator said. “Let me tell you why he is wrong and then you can respond. Federal employment has gone up 140,000. It is just a fact. He is talking about federal and state employment, so he is playing games with numbers. President Obama is not in charge of the government of Virginia or the government of New York, so teachers have been reduced at the state level.”
“Federal employees in the federal government is enormously bigger under Obama,” Paul continued. “And he is disingenuous, for an allegedly smart man, he is disingenuous, playing games and ought to be ashamed of himself… We have a much bigger government and it is disingenuous, if not dishonest, for Krugman to try to say otherwise.”
Here's a graph of all Federal employees from BLS:
Here are the numbers:
JAN 2009 2,790,000So, the net increase so far has been about 14,000 employees, hardly "enormously bigger."
AUG 2012 2,804,000 - preliminary data
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The biggest flaw in Rand Paul types is their failure to see the need for intense government regulation of High Finance.
I also think they have a simplistic and demeaning concept of a person.
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