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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction

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To: tejek who wrote (51331)	9/17/2006 2:55:17 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) of 90947

"Since 2001, the health-care industry has added 1.7 million jobs. The rest of the private sector? None." It never ceases to amaze me how journalists can get simple economic facts SO wrong. That you repeat their idiocy, however, is never surprising. "Since 2001", according the the BLS's establishment survey (which many economists argue misses a large portion of job creation because it ignores small businesses and the self-employed), private payrolls have grown by 4.1 million jobs while health care payrolls accounted for only 1.3 million of that. Hmm. 2.8 million and "none" are in disagreement by just a smidge, don't you think? Total Private (non-farm): Total Health Care:

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