Don't blame private and public employers for hiring only 88,000 workers in March.
It's a miracle that many jobs were created as the doomsday "sequester" begins to take its toll of government, contractor and other private-sector positions affected by drastically reduced domestic and defense spending.
Hey, if you knew that the meat-ax budget reductions would cause massive furloughs, layoffs and pinkslips, why would you hire more workers to provide goods and services to fewer consumers?
Here's why the nation's economic blood, sinew and bones are disappearing:
Nobody expected the Dr. Strangelove scenario to play out. Everybody expected the pols to blink and compromise before the point of no return.
Enter the masochistic Tea Party wing of congressional Republicans bent on bringing President Obama to his knees--along with the rest of us. (7 APRIL 2013)
