Right. I didn't mean to imply that the growth of government employment was a "plot" (though the Federal government has engaged in that kind of thing in the past). I really didn't know which part of the government was producing the jobs or why they were doing it.
It seems that what's happening is that there was a surge of state & local tax revenues as the economy rose (up to the onset of the recession, which seems likely soon if it hasn't happened already). Since public education has been starved in recent years, most state & local governments used that surge of revenues to try to make up the deficit... This would also help the Ins get re-elected during a period of rising complaints about public education. The current weakness of the private sector can be seen by the fact that it was the government which was the source of job growth. On 11/3/06, Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote: > > > > Maybe it's a plot by local school boards and state universities, but > I doubt it. Whether it's a fact or not I have no idea. But if it were a fact it would not be a plot, merely a number of people in similar situations responding similarly to that situation. I'm sure that at one time or another some township board has started a project with two or three extra workers a month or so before an election. And under the right circumstances, many such local governments would do likewise. Not state universities, though. They react politically but to a different time scale. Carrol
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