Reply #17: OK, when I put this up she was in the middle of it

[EstimatedProphet]

Now she's done.

We did lose 131,000 jobs, even though there's officials saying that we gained jobs. The jobs we lost are public sector - in other words, state and local government. The reason we lost them is because the way we watered down the stimulus allowed for $0 billion to be cut from funding state and local initiatives which would have hired people. That, along with a lot of temporary Census jobs, means we lost jobs overall. The real complication is that the stimulus got watered down to bring Repubs on board, so this is their doing more than anything else, and now they're pointing fingers at Obama for not trying hard enough.