For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: government on a hiring binge (paragraph breaks removed):
Federal, state and local governments are hiring new workers at the fastest pace in six years, helping offset job losses in the private sector. Governments added 76,800 jobs in the first three months of 2008, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. That's the biggest jump in first-quarter hiring since a boom in 2002 that followed the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Is this good news, or something that should really concern fiscal conservatives, assuming such an animal still exists? :-)
