431,000 jobs created in May, is the economy moving in the right direction?

  The May job numbers came out yesterday and we learned that 431,000 jobs were created. Groups like Organizing for America are touting the numbers as proof that the economy is rebounding; stating that this is the fifth straight month of job growth.

  Barack Obama also used these numbers– which fell well below the projected numbers for the month– to claim that this is proof the economy is turning around.

this report is a sign that our economy is getting stronger by the day.

  He touted the fact that we saw another month of private sector job growth, so let us look at the job numbers. Out of the 431,000 jobs created in May, only 41,000 were in the private sector. The other 390,000 jobs– totaling 95% of the jobs created– were all in the public sector, and many of those jobs are temporary census workers. And speaking of the census workers; it was learned that the Census Bureau purposely hired more workers than needed. They claim that they did this as a cost savings measure, but I wonder if they did it in an attempt to inflate the May job numbers.

  This hardly seems like private sector growth to me. The government is adding people to the payroll while the private sector remains virtually stagnant and we are supposed to be rejoicing over these numbers?

   Who pays the salary of these government workers? That would be you and I– the ones who are still either stupid or honest enough to work for a living. If people keep leaving the public sector and join the ranks of the private sector, how will the dwindling public sector continue to pay for the government workers?  The only way the government can raise money is to tax the people, so we can expect that as private sector jobs decrease, that taxes will have to increase proportionally to pay for those who are now working for the government.

  Here is another quote on the job numbers from Barack Obama: 

What these numbers do mean, though, is that we’re moving in the right direction

  Increasing government jobs and government dependency while more and more people leave the private sector to join the government workforce is a step in the right direction? Perhaps in Barack Obama’s world more government jobs and an enlarging government constitutes “moving in the right direction,” and maybe when Barack Obama stated that we are “moving in the right direction” he was talking about enlarging the government and was not talking about the relatively small amount of private sector jobs that were created in May. Perhaps he considers the additional government jobs the biggest victory of all.

   To him more government is “moving in the right direction.” But to many concerned Americans we certainly are not “moving in the right direction.” There are still millions of Americans who believe that being self sufficient and working in the private sector is a good thing; all that these people want is a job so that they can support their families without having to fall back on the government to help them.

  Sadly, Barack Obama’s policies are doing nothing to create jobs for people that want to work in the private sector. His policies are creating some jobs, but the jobs they are creating only increase the government and to many of us that means that we are not moving  in the right direction. So the answer to the question is no, the economy isn’t moving in the right direction.